Texas Instruments has announced a 28nm system-on-chip device with four ARM processors on-chip.
The latest generation OMAP 5 mobile applications processor integrates two Cortex-A15 MPCores running at 2GHz and two Cortex-M4 processors.
See: Will latest Cortex-M4 chip come from TI?
The M4s will be used for offloading real-time processing from the Cortex-A15 cores for mobile handset control functions.
There is up to 8Gbyte of dynamic memory access and hardware virtualization support.
All this on-chip processing power will be used for video, 3D graphics, 2D graphics, display and security functions.
There is now support on-chip for S3D video in 1080p quality, gesturing (including proximity sensing), and interactive projection.
"We continue to see high performance mobile devices, such as advanced Smartphones and tablets, requiring increased processor performance while remaining within the restricted mobile power consumption boundaries," said Mike Inglis, executive v-p and general manager of the ARM processor division.
The chip incorporates TI’s power management, audio and video processing.
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