Texas Instruments announced the availability of four new OMAP processors, based on the ARM CortexTM-A8 core, aiming to provide laptop-like performance at handheld power levels in a single chip.

With more than four times the processing power of today's 300 MHz ARM9 devices, the superscalar Cortex-A8 core runs up to 600 MHz and is integrated into four new OMAP35x applications processors for a wide range of possible applications, including portable navigation devices, Internet appliances and portable patient monitoring devices.

The integrated, single-chip devices combine photo-realistic graphics and TI's advanced video DSP technology, to offer the industry's best combination of integrated multi-core processing capabilities in any single-chip combination.

TI's OMAP35x generation of devices consists of four distinct single-chip processors: OMAP3503, OMAP3515, OMAP3525 and OMAP3530. These processors offer a variety of combinations of the Cortex-A8 core, multimedia-rich peripherals, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible graphics engine, video accelerators and TMS320C64x+TM DSP core.

TI's DaVinci software technology for video-centric customers will be available for the highest-performance video in the OMAP35x devices, including the OMAP3525 and OMAP3530.