Marvell goes Snapdragon hunting, announces Armada 610 mobile processor

[allaboutsymbian]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/marvell-knight-20100105-250.jpg (http://www.marvell.com/technologies/armada/armada_610_application_processor_mobile_connected/release/1361/)Qualcomm's Snapdragon (http://www.engadget.com/tag/snapdragon) is king of the mobile hill right now, but you just knew that wouldn't last long, right? Marvell is now after its throne, announcing the Armada 610. It's a "gigahertz class" mobile CPU that can not only do 1080p decoding but can handle encoding too, even able to pump pixels to four high-res (2,000 x 2,000) displays at once -- you know, just in case you have a pocket full of pico projectors (http://www.engadget.com/tag/picoprojector). Open GL ES 2.0 is on tap, so 3D gaming should be a cinch, and while there's no specific specs given, the chip is said to need "extremely low power." It certainly sounds like a good combo to us, and that the chip is now shipping in limited samples to OEMs is even better news.

Marvell goes Snapdragon hunting, announces Armada 610 mobile processor (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/marvell-goes-snapdragon-hunting-announces-armada-610-mobile-pro/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


Permalink (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/marvell-goes-snapdragon-hunting-announces-armada-610-mobile-pro/) http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_VIA.gifPRNewswire (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marvell-changes-the-game-again---new-armada-610-application-processor-first-to-bring-1080p-full-hd-encode-and-decode-and-3d-multimedia-performance-to-mobile-connected-devices-80693077.html) | http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gifMarvell (http://www.marvell.com/technologies/armada/armada_610_application_processor_mobile_connected/release/1361/) | Email this (http://www.engadget.com/forward/19303553/) | Comments (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/marvell-goes-snapdragon-hunting-announces-armada-610-mobile-pro/#comments)

More... (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/marvell-goes-snapdragon-hunting-announces-armada-610-mobile-pro/)