St-Ericsson,new joint venture between ST-NXP Wireless and Ericsson Mobile Platform just announced the availability of their smartphone platform U8500.
This platform is currently the most powerful available in the market now and surpass by a lot its competitor like Texas Instruments OMAP3(unless OMAP4 is ready,but there hasn't been any demo yet).
U8500 embed the ARM mobile GPU MALI 400,which can compute 15 Milions of polygons per second.For some demo of the Mali GPU family(55,200 and 400) see our previous news.
Just like OMAP4 it sports a Cortex A9 multi core processor at unknown speed and St-Ericsson team claim that they already added support for the platform to Android. The U8500 integrate almost all the components required for the smartphone design:
Features
- Full HD 1080p camcorder, multiple codecs supported (H264 HP, VC-1, MPEG-4)
- High-resolution, touchscreen display support up to XGA
- Simultaneous dual display support
- High performance 3D graphics, support for OpenVG 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0
- Dual camera support with Integrated ISP 18 Mpixel and 5 Mpixel
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled platform
- Built-in USB 2.0, HDMI out
- Support for multiple operating systems, Symbian, Android and Linux-based platforms
- Optional support for mobile TV standards
Technology
- Highly efficient, low-power ARM dual Cortex™- A9 processor
- Dual multimedia DSP for low-power, flexible media processing
- High-bandwidth LP-DDR2 interface
- ARM Mali™ 400 GPU and NEON®CPU extensions
- State-of-the-art HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) Release 7 modem
- Unique audio architecture with a wide range of audio codecs supported
- Advanced power saving architecture enabling class-leading audio and video playback times
THE USUAL SAMURAI DEMO HAS NEVER BEEN SO DETAILED AND SMOOTH:
