Toshiba has revealed a high-performance stream processor integrating four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the “Cell Broadband Engine”, the Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000. Toshiba SpursEngine is a co-processor with a clock frequency of 1.5GHz, integrates a hardware codec for Full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs. With low power consumption range of 10W to 20W, the design of this powerful co-processor is dedicated to bringing the advanced capabilities of the Cell/B.E. to consumer electronics, particularly video processing in digital consumer products.
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With Intel’s roadmap of upcoming multi-core processors, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) has also planned to release its B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 series CPUs including 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 within the next 1-2 weeks. The top-end 9850 will only reach a core frequency of 2.5GHz, instead of the original goal of 2.6GHz, however. AMD is also planning to launch triple-core Phenom 8750, 8650 and 8450 CPUs with power consumption of 65W in late April. Prior to that, the company will launch the Athlon 64 X2 5800+ to fill the gap in the mainstream market, noted the sources. For the dual-core CPU market, AMD will launch the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Black Edition and 4600+ by the end of March and will follow with Phenom-based Athlon 6250 and 6050 CPUs by the end of the second quarter.
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Intel has officially announced the release of two underdevelopment chipset, the Silverthorn as Atom, and Menlow as Centrino Atom. Intel Atom measures less than 25 mm², making it Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor yet. Up to 11 Intel Atom processor die — the tiny slivers of silicon packed with 47 million transistors each — would fit in an area the size of an American penny. These new chips will be manufactured on Intel’s industry-leading 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today’s mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range.
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Intel has boosted the desktop PC performance to a new level by combining two Intel Quad core processors for a total of eight processing engines and a choice of multi-card graphics solutions from either ATI or NVIDIA, the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. The Intel Desktop Board D5400XS, when paired with two Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors, forms the foundation of the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Hardcore gamers will welcome the opportunity to enjoy multiple simultaneous graphics card solutions featuring either NVIDIA SLI* or ATI Crossfire* for today’s latest graphics-intensive titles. And the performance of eight processing cores is especially welcomed by the 3-D animators, digital audio artists and high-definition video editors behind the coolest games here at the Game Developers Conference.

“For the team creating world-class games here at id, time is one of our most valuable assets,” said Robert A. Duffy, Programming Director, id Software. ?Having eight powerful Intel cores in a single machine helps our team create and test our latest titles at record speed. We have seen one of our most time-consuming asset generation processes cut from over 4 hours to under 20 minutes by utilizing all eight cores and threading the generation code. Long term this translates to better games on the market faster than previously possible.”

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced its launch of Imageon solution which enable the playback of media-rich applicatoins such as mobile TV, games and high-fidelity audio on mobile phones and handheld devices, the AMD Imageon D160 mobile TV solution. It is a complete hardware + software package that enable mobile devices to receive over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV signals transmitted in the DVB-T and DVB-H standards. Powered by Imageon M210 audio processor which is designed to enable a high-definition, fully integrated audio subsystem that capable of delivering more than 100 hours of music playback in airplane mode. Together with Imageon A250 application processor, it creates the best AMD latest multimedia technology for video recording and playback, photo imaging, and high-resolution displays, offering performance yet maintaing long system battery life.

The firm also introduced unique next-generation graphics cores that uses AMD’s technologies to provide an immersive graphics platform from PCs to game consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox 360.
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Marvell has announced that its Marvell PXA310 application processor is the processor to power the recently announced premium Samsung i780 smartphone. The Samsung i780 also features Marvell’s industry leading WLAN solutions with Marvell’s 88W8686 WLAN chip. Marketed in major European countries, the Samsung i780 has a sleek design packed with the latest in business and consumer with great features including global positioning system (GPS) navigation, fast HSDPA and EDGE connectivity, Bluetooth, full touch screen with stylus, QWERTY key pad, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional operating system, 2.0-megapixel camera and a front camera for video calls. The PXA310 processor also delivers full Internet browsing, MP3 music and FM radio.

“Users are eager to get the higher levels of multimedia functions and performance that the Samsung i780 will feature, all in a stylish design,” said Chul Hwan Lee, senior vice president, Samsung Mobile Communication Division. “We looked to Marvell to give us accelerated processing and access speeds and enhanced video play back, so Samsung can offer an abundance of features like GPS, yet keep power requirements low.”

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To anticipate the market demand for budget users, Intel has responded by releasing its first Dual Core Celeron processor, which provides more power yet low price. Based on energy-efficient microarchitecture, the Celeron dual-core processor delivers superior energy-efficient dual-core performance. One of the model under this new dual-core Celeron brand is E1200, based on 65nm fabrication technology. The Dual Core Celeron E1200 provides 1.6GHz clock speed and 800MHz front side bus.
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AMD has planned to launch several low-power variants of its quad-core Phenom and dual-core Athlon CPUs to launch late this quarter or early in the second quarter of 2008. On the Quad-core side, there will be Phenom 9100e with a core frequency of 1.8GHz, DDR2 1066 memory controller and TDP of 65W, and followed by Phenom 9150e. Three dual-core low-power processors will be launched: Athlon 4850e (2.5GHz, 1MB L2 cache and DDR2 800), Athlon 4450e (2.3GHz, 1MB L2 cache and DDR2 800) and Athlon 4050e (2.1GHz, 1MB L2 cache and DDR 800).
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