Marvell today announced its new Armada family of processors, supporting Adobe Flash technology and Blu-ray functionality. With the Armada 100, 500, 600 and 1000 series, there will be up to 1.2 GHz CPU available, the Armada 600 will be used for smartphone and mobile devices with ultra low power design.
“Launch of the ARMADA family represents a watershed event in mobile computing,” said Ms. Weili Dai, Marvell’s Cofounder and Vice President and General Manager of the Company’s Consumer and Computing Business Unit. “The ARMADA family delivers to mobile devices what skeptics once doubted could be done: fast, PC-caliber processing, full Internet experience, rich media including HD quality video and 3D graphics — all in lightweight form factors with long battery life. There will always be a place for PCs, but the future of mobile computing — for smartbooks, e-readers, smart tablets and more — will by necessity get its DNA from smartphones, not PCs. Marvell’s world-leading technology portfolio allows us to provide a complete platform solution not only for mobile computing, but also smartphones, gaming, printers, personal and home entertainment, and emerging consumer markets.”
The ARMADA family supports primary operating systems used across consumer and embedded markets including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Linux, Maemo, Ubuntu, and China Mobile’s OMS. Select customers are already sampling ARMADA processors; devices incorporating these chips are expected to be consumer ready by early 2010.
[via wmpoweruser]
