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Take the back off Samsung’s Omnia HD i8910 handset at MWC 2009 this week and you will see chips from Imagination Technologies and Texas Instruments.
The Symbian-based handset uses the Texas Instruments OMAP3 multimedia processor platform supported by Imagination’s PowerVR SGX graphics processor.
This could be one of the first mobiles running latest generation OpenGL ES 2.0 shader-based graphics.
According to Tony King-Smith, v-p marketing at Imagination, the company’s PowerVR Insider graphics application development tool supports the Omnia HD i8910, as well as existing Samsung handsets including the GT-i8510 and GT-i7110.
OpenGL ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform application programming interface (API) developed by Khronos for 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems such as mobile handsets.
Last August, Imagination achieved conformance on an SGX-enabled OMAP3430 application processor for the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile 3D graphics APIs.
The development tool is compliant with the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 API which is implemented for the first time in the mobile market on the new phones.
The SGX core is already integrated in to SoCs from Intel and NEC as well as Texas Instruments.