{"id":11499,"date":"2010-09-07T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2010\/09\/07\/samsung-orion-dual-core-mobile-processor-announced\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:15:00","slug":"samsung-%e2%80%98orion%e2%80%99-dual-core-mobile-processor-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"Samsung \u2018Orion\u2019 Dual-Core Mobile Processor Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Samsung'sSome consider Samsung\u2019s Hummingbird to be the most impressive processor in current mobile devices.  Hummingbird powers the popular Galaxy S Android smartphones (T-Mobile\u2019s Samsung Vibrant<\/a>, AT&T\u2019s Samsung Captivate<\/a>, etc.), and Apple\u2019s iPhone 4, 5th Gen iPod touch and iPad are all powered by the A4 chip, a Hummingbird variant.  So today\u2019s announcement by Samsung of their next-generation Orion dual-core processor gives us a good idea of what 2011\u2019s high-end smartphones and tablets will look like, at least in terms of performance.<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s Orion is a Cortex-A9 dual-core processor.  Each application core runs at 1GHz, which \u2013 along with an updated GPU \u2013 allows the Orion to power full 1080p HD video playback and encoding, and to output that video to an external device over HDMI.  In fact, Samsung claims that Orion provides \u201c5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orion will begin shipping to manufacturers at the end of the year with mass production beginning sometime in H1 2011.<\/p>\n

Read the full press release after the jump.<\/p>\n

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Press Release:<\/p>\n

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Samsung Introduces High Performance, Low Power Dual CORTEXTM \u2013 A9 Application Processor for Mobile Devices<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

TAIPEI, Taiwan\u2013(BUSINESS WIRE)\u2013Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced its new 1GHz ARM\u00ae CORTEXTM A9-based dual-core application processor, codenamed Orion, for advanced mobile applications. Device OEM developers now have a powerful dual processor chip platform designed specifically to meet the needs of high-performance, low-power mobile applications including tablets, netbooks and smartphones. Samsung\u2019s new processor will be demonstrated at the seventh annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum held here in Taiwan at the Westin Taipei Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsumers are demanding the full web experience without compromise while on the go,\u201d said Dojun Rhee, vice president of Marketing, System LSI Division, Samsung Electronics. \u201cGiven this trend, mobile device designers need an application processor platform that delivers superb multimedia performance, fast CPU processing speed, and abundant memory bandwidth. Samsung\u2019s newest dual core application processor chip is designed specifically to fulfill such stringent performance requirements while maintaining long battery life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Designed using Samsung\u2019s 45 nanometer low-power process technology, Orion features a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores, each comes with a 32KB data cache and a 32KB instruction cache. Samsung also included a 1MB L2 cache to optimize CPU processing performance and provide fast context switching in a multi-tasking environment. In addition, the memory interface and bus architecture of Orion supports data intensive multimedia applications including full HD video playback and high speed 3D action games.<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s new application processor incorporates a rich portfolio of advanced multimedia features implemented by hardware accelerators, such as video encoder\/decoder that supports 30fps video playback and recording at 1080P full HD resolution. Using an enhanced graphics processing unit (GPU), the new processors are capable of delivering 5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung.<\/p>\n

For design flexibility and system BOM cost reduction, Orion integrates a set of interfaces commonly used in mobile devices to configure various peripheral functionalities. For example, with this processor, customers have the choice to use different types of storage including NAND flash, moviNANDTM, SSD or HDD providing both SATA, and eMMC interfaces. Customers can also choose their appropriate memory options including low power LPDDR2 or DDR3, which is commonly used for high performance. In addition, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver baseband processor is embedded in the processor to seamlessly support location based services (LBS), which is critical in many emerging mobile applications.<\/p>\n

Orion features an onboard native triple display controller architecture that compliments multi-tasking operations in a multiple display environment. A mobile device using the Orion processor can simultaneously support two on-device display screens, while driving a third external display such as a TV or a monitor, via an on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface.<\/p>\n

Orion is designed to support package-on-package (POP) with memory stacking to reduce the footprint. A derivative of Orion, which is housed in a standalone package with a 0.8mm ball pitch, is also available.<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s new dual-core application processor, Orion, will be available to select customers in the fourth quarter of 2010 and is scheduled for mass production in the first half of 2011.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some consider Samsung\u2019s Hummingbird to be the most impressive processor in current mobile devices.  Hummingbird powers the popular Galaxy S Android smartphones (T-Mobile\u2019s Samsung Vibrant, AT&T\u2019s Samsung Captivate, etc.), and Apple\u2019s iPhone 4, 5th Gen iPod touch and iPad are all powered by the A4 chip, a Hummingbird variant.  So today\u2019s announcement by Samsung of […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}