Freescale Semiconductor is one of many semiconductors that has jumped onto the mobile circuit market and the new i.MX 6 series of mobile processors brings some goodies. Based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 architecture the processor series brings up to 4 cores and clock frequencies up to 1.2 GHz.
Freescale i.MX 6Quad is the bad boy of the series with four cores and clock frequencies up to 1.2 GHz for extra demanding products, both in the industry and retail. Freesacale also reveals that the new i.MX 6 family will also be available with one or two cores supporting encoding and playback of 1080p video and stereoscopic 3D.
The circuit manufacturer says that the circuit will consume as little as 350 milliwatt during playback of 1080p material, a resolution that will also be supported in video calls.
Potential applications include mobile devices featuring 3D video playback, desktop-quality gaming, augmented reality applications and content creation capabilities – all delivered in ultra-sleek form factors and with significant battery life advantages over many of today’s most popular mobile devices.
Other exciting functions include HDMI 1.4, Gigabit Ethernet, SATA 3.0 Gbps, and an ARM Neon GPU with 200 Mtriangles per second capacity. Freescale expects to ship the first i.MX 6 processors in products this year, in competition with other similar solutions from Samsung, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
With the sight set for smartphones and tablets we will hardly have a lack of performance with coming products.
