Computing

Next-Gen Phones And Tablets Are Gonna Do Crazy Shit

TI’s current-generation OMAP4 processors are already hardcore: They’re what’s behind simultaneous 1080p-playing, Quake-raging BlackBerry PlayBook. But TI’s next-gen OMAP5 chips are on a whole ‘nother level of crazy. Multi-core chips built on ARM’s fastest Cortex A15 processors – that ramp up to 2GHz each with another pair a pair of Cortex M4s thrown in for fun.


September 9, 2010

ARM Cortex-A15 Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone’s heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Samsung’s Hummingbird and the iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making those chips five times more powerful with Cortex-A15.