This is fantastic news via PocketPCThoughts. The Next Generation of XScale: Monahans Is Here!
Three new Marvel Xscale processors have been announced.
Mummy, Daddy and Baby Monahans! Daddy breaks through the 1Ghz barrier.
•PXA320 (Monahans-P)- 1.2GHz scalable down to 806MHz, general applications processor; [Update - Only 806Mhz for the time being. 1.2Ghz has been tested though.]
•PXA310 (Monahans-LV) – multimedia processor, supposedly capable of 30fps H.264 playback in VGA resolutions; and
•PXA300 (Monahans-L) – the budget line
This kind of messes up the term ‘Ghz class’ because there’s a vast difference in processing power between a RISC and an advanced x86 instruction set but [update: maybe not!] its superb news for the uber-smartphone and low-end UMPC market. 30fpx 640×480 video is high quality (assume about a 2mbps bitrate) and will look fantastic on a 5 or 6″ screen.
This will also enhance full quality rich browsing with flash, dynamic pages and quick render-rate at 800×480.
Products using these chips are planned for availability in the first quarter of 2007. CeBit perhaps? I guess the big push will come with WM6 in 2008 though.
Bring it on HTC !
Update: There’s some more detailed info over at TechArp.
Steve.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:22 am
Hi, I posted some corrections to the original article which your readers might want to know:
“Edit: Based on peaz’s link, it looks like these babies show considerably advances in power consumption and processing speed. Also, the PXA320 is currently only available in 806MHz with hardware video acceleration, and the 310 (also with hardware video acceleration) and 300 are only available in 624MHz”
You can get more technical details through this link:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=365&pgno=0
December 1st, 2006 at 12:26 am
Many thanks for the update Nurisham.
I’ll make a quick edit.
Regards
Steve.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Now, these people may also be ‘suffering’ during the recession, but it’s because their stocks aren’t worth what they used to be, not because their parents have cut them off. ,