Texas Instruments has a first device is shown that is equipped with the new Omap5-soc for smartphones and tablets. The predecessor was used in Googles Galaxy Nexus and the BlackBerry PlayBook.
The samples of the Omap5-soc will be next week to the manufacturers sent, reports Anandtech. The Omap 5432 must be five times better graphics performance than the Omap 4430 and 4460, soc’s which are used in the Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Razr and BlackBerry PlayBook. The Omap 5432, which at 28nm is baked, contains two processing cores with Cortex A15 core. The maximum clock speed will be around 2GHz, but in the reference device they have turned around 1GHz.
The Omap5 has four ARM cores. Two of them are of the type of Cortex A15 MPCore, which is Texas Instruments at up to 2GHz running. These new processor cores would per kloktik 50 percent more instructions than the Cortex A9 can run. There are also two Cortex M4 cores, which are intended for real-time signal processing, the Cortex A15 cores need to defecate.
The gpu in the soc is a dual-core-SGX544MP2. That means that Texas Instruments is not the new and much more powerful gpus from the PowerVR Series 6. The soc later on manufacturers can be sent and would devices with the soc so later come true. Incidentally, used TI never the last, just-announced gpu. in the Omap4 TI used the SGX540, while the newer SGX543 there already was.
The samples of the Omap 5432 go next week to the manufacturers, but TI does not specify which manufacturers they are. In the past time were, among others, RIM, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung use of the socs of Texas Instruments.
The Omap5 will be in accordance with TI are not only used in smartphones and tablets, but also ultrabooks with Windows 8 with the ARM-soc equipped, reports Engadget. Until now turning ultrabooks on Windows 7, that is not with the processor architecture of ARM can handle. Windows 8 can.
