Google has some new details about his plans with modular smartphones announced there will be two referentietoestellen where manufacturers their models on a base. One of them gets a Marvell processor, while there is also a device with Nvidia Tegra K1 chip equipped.
Google let know the first three demo models of Project Ara to have received. The smartphones are manufactured by Quanta and based on Googles ‘Spiral 2’design. It is also about the first models with the Toshiba-switch on the basis of the MIPI UniPro protocol and together with the bridge asics for the control of the interfaces of the modules must provide. Google succeeded in the processor is the screen to send to the switch via the UniPro network.
There are two referentietoestellen. One of them features the Marvell PXA1928, a soc with four ARM Cortex A53 cores, 64bit support and a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. The chip supports other 4g, wi-fi ac and nfc. In addition, there is a variant with Nvidia Tegra K1 processor with powerful gpu, but it is not known whether it is the version with four Cortex A15 cores or the new model with two Nvidia 64bit cores.
For new models of Project Ara with Spiral 3-package set Google a applicatieprocessor from RockChip with support for UniPro in the prospect. There will also be a new generation of Toshiba chips with support for contactless data transmission on the basis of the latest M-PHY specification.
Google promises the Spiral 2 models of Project Ara at a developer conference itself in January to demonstrate.
A prototype of Project Ara: this is Spiral 1.