Marvell goes Snapdragon hunting, announces Armada 610 mobile processor

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....100105-250.jpgQualcomm's 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. 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 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.


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