02-15-2006, 08:00 PM
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Texas Instruments Announces New OMAP 3 Architecture
"Offering a breakthrough in how a mobile phone can work for you, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced its new OMAP 3 architecture for mobile phones at a press conference at 3GSM World Congress. The OMAP 3 platform will transform the mobile phone into a personal and professional tool that allows consumers to integrate work and entertainment into one device. OMAP 3 application processors will power a new class of mobile phones that will improve entertainment and productivity features and integrate capabilities of cameras, gaming devices, portable video and music players, laptops and PDAs. TI's first OMAP 3-based device, the OMAP3430 processor, will be the industry's highest-performing application processor and is believed to be the first wireless processor to use 65-nanometer (nm) process technology. The OMAP3430 processor will sample this year."
TI started gobbling a portion of the mobile devices market share in 2005, and it's good to see them making new ground in 2006. The new OMAP 3 65-nm architecture offers mobile phones and PDAs huge performance gains in all sorts of demanding situations. The first processor of the class, the OMAP3430, operates in a low-power mode at 550Mhz.
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02-15-2006, 10:17 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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550MHz in low-power mode? Do we see an 800MHz+ on the way? :wink:
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02-15-2006, 10:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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The first processor of the class, the OMAP3430, operates in a low-power mode at 550Mhz.
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These stories always blow me away. Being that my first job in the computer industry was as a programmer for DEC PDP-11s. We ran large (room size) industrial equipment with a processor running at around 1/100th the speed of this processor for cell phones and on less than 1/1000th the memory! Oh, and if the computer detected a problem with the equipment it was running - it could make a phone call to alert the service personnel. 
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02-15-2006, 10:47 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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A very nice2-3x improvement in clock speed (excellent if they keep the same IPC), a floating point unit, TV out, XGA out, USB2 OTG, 3D accellerator, dual camera, DDR.....
Who wouldn't want a device based around this guy? Great stuff
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