Jonathon Watkins
10-06-2005, 10:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4305342.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4305342.stm</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Chip designer Arm is unveiling the latest generation of processors that will power future mobile phones. Processors built with the Cortex A8 design will have more than one billion transistors on board and will be many times more powerful than current ones. Phones using A8 chips will be able to play high-quality video or handle speaker-independent voice recognition. Arm said it expected handsets and other gadgets using the chip design to appear in large numbers in 2007/2008."</i><br /><br />The BBC is reporting that the A8 chips currently top 1,000 Dhrystone Mip (Dips), while future versions could hit 2,000 Dips. The CPUs run at 600Mhz in 'low power' mode and can run at over 1Ghz for high performance processing. That's a lot of horsepower in a small low-powered package. Apart from phones, the CPUs are intended for use in set-top boxes, handheld games machines as well as in cars. The full ARM press release can be found <a href="http://www.arm.com/news/10548.html">here</a>.