Smartphone Silicon: The 2010 CTIA Wireless Show Roundup
by Ganesh T S on March 31, 2010 11:11 AM EST- Posted in
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We looked at two interesting silicon platforms introduced at the 2010 CTIA wireless show. The wireless radio chipset from Sequans shows the coming to fruition of a nascent market opportunity, but the competition in that space is bound to heat up soon with the established companies such as Qualcomm becoming ready to introduce their own offerings.
If Sprint can deliver excellent performance on its WiMAX network, the HTC EVO 4G may end up being the Android phone to get.
The app processor used in the Samsung Galaxy S is a precursor to what we will be seeing in this year's iPhone line product. Subtle variations in this app processor have already been introduced by Samsung for other product lines such as smartbooks and media streamers. The competition in this space is becoming more and more interesting with the capabilities of the various competing products.
At present, there is little separating the OMAP4000, Marvell ARMADA 610, Qualcomm Snapdragon and the Samsung S5PC110. A detailed analysis of the various smartphone app processor platforms will appear soon on AnandTech. In the meanwhile, we will continue to bring you a roundup of the interesting hardware platforms getting introduced in the upcoming trade shows. Stay tuned!
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Dave0057 - Saturday, April 3, 2010 - link
The WiMAX chip for the HTC Evo is indeed powered by Sequans. see here: http://connectedplanetonline.com/ctia/2010/news/sp...Electrofreak - Sunday, April 4, 2010 - link
Why is everyone so convinced that Hummingbird contains an SGX 540? My research shows that the SGX 540 puts out 30 million triangles per second max, 1/3 of what Samsung is claiming.ganeshts - Monday, April 5, 2010 - link
Hummingbird by itself doesn't contain a graphics core. It is just a layout implementation of ARM's Cortex-A8 microarchitecture.The S5PC110 is expected to contain the SGX540. The 30 million triangles / second (or, is it polygons per second, if I remember right) quoted by ImgTec is probably at a low frequency of operation. If the SGX540 is overclocked internally, the performance in those terms would go up.
As of now, we have to take what Samsung marketing talk fed us with a pinch of salt. Let us wait for the device to arrive, so that real benchmarks can be obtained,