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Joel

07-21-2003, 01:22 AM

SEOUL, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the S3C2440, the world's fastest mobile CPU, with a core speed of 533MHz. The new mobile CPU will drive the emergence of new services, functions and multimedia content for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones.
"The increasing popularity of mobile applications is driving the demand for high-performance, low-power mobile processors, " said Vice President Yun-tae Lee of the Mobile Design Project Team at SOC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics. "Samsung developed its newest 533MHz processor using its unique high-speed process and low-power design technology in conjunction with an optimized power management methodology for high performance operation from a minimal power source."
The S3C2440 enables value-added end-user features such as camera interface, TFT & STN LCD display support, SD/MMC/SDIO, USB host and device, and touch screen interface. By providing a comprehensive set of common system peripherals, the S3C2440 reduces overall system costs and eliminates the need to configure additional components.
The S3C2440 CPU supports major operating systems including Microsoft Windows CE, Palm OS, Symbian and Linux. The device also offers the advantages of a built-in NAND flash boot loader so that high-density NAND flash memory can be used without having to install an additional support chip.
The S3C2440 features an ARM920T core, a 16/32-bit RISC microprocessor for high performance in a small form-factor and a low core voltage of 1.3V. In addition, it is developed using 0.13um CMOS standard cell and a memory compiler and adopts Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA).
A recent Gartner Dataquest forecast reveals the global application/ multimedia processor market is expected to reach 25 million units in 2003 and leap to 170 million units by 2007. Samsung's high-speed, low-power mobile S3C2440 CPU is sampling now in 533MHz, 400MHz, and 300MHz versions and will be in mass production from Q4 2003.

cykalan

07-21-2003, 02:02 AM

533Mhz.....dun know how much juice will this thing sucks....
but will wait and see the actual thing before further comment....

Unregistered

07-21-2003, 02:30 AM

sounds like good news for the PDA market, more competitors.
Yet Sony just started to utilize their own chipset on the UX50. Looks like we're not going to see this 533Mhz chip on the CLIEs. :confused:

Eddy

07-21-2003, 02:35 AM

that was me, the unregistered :(
darn cookies.... :confused:

orol

07-21-2003, 04:14 AM

well the core is the same, but ... the freqeuncy is 4x lower on the new sony handheld engine..
so I guess it's rather slow .. without he dsp which will be 100pro propiatary it will be a slow machine compared even to pxa255

ConceptVBS

07-21-2003, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by cykalan
533Mhz.....dun know how much juice will this thing sucks....
but will wait and see the actual thing before further comment....

I can tell you that it sucks less power than Intel's 400Mhz Xscale mobile handheld CPU's. This chip is built on a 0.13 micron technology, the smallest you can get right now.

Unregistered

07-22-2003, 02:24 AM

Originally posted by ConceptVBS

I can tell you that it sucks less power than Intel's 400Mhz Xscale mobile handheld CPU's. This chip is built on a 0.13 micron technology, the smallest you can get right now.

Your theory is off-base. Using a smaller technology will not help your power consumption. Smaller transistors make for faster chips but the drawback is higher current consumption both in operating mode and in standby/sleep modes. So, I expect to see more current sucked by the Samsung chips.

Anyway, Intel is already close to releasing it's own 533MHz processor on the 0.18u technology which should have better power performance.

http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2003/2/2003-2-18-Intel-to-Update.html

ConceptVBS

07-25-2003, 03:46 PM

PEG-SJ30

07-25-2003, 04:03 PM

You know, somehow these mobile CPU announcements don't excite me. I still want a "tee with vee-gee" (T series with virtual graffiti) :mad:

oh, and a d-pad.

cbulock

07-25-2003, 04:42 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered

Your theory is off-base. Using a smaller technology will not help your power consumption. Smaller transistors make for faster chips but the drawback is higher current consumption both in operating mode and in standby/sleep modes. So, I expect to see more current sucked by the Samsung chips.

Anyway, Intel is already close to releasing it's own 533MHz processor on the 0.18u technology which should have better power performance.

http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2003/2/2003-2-18-Intel-to-Update.html
Unregistered, your theory is off base.

Read up-
http://www.cpuplanet.com/features/article.php/1690721
"One reason is that transitioning a processor core to a smaller die size, packing transistors tighter together, can decrease the CPU's power requirements. Intel's 2.0GHz Pentium 4 Willamette, an 0.18-micron-process chip, took 1.75V, but the 0.13-micron-process Northwood needed only 1.5V to achieve the same clock speed. The company's upcoming "Prescott" will use an 0.09-micron (90-nanometer) process, and is rumored to have a core voltage of only 1.2V."
http://www.arm.com/news.nsf/html/Lowpower3004?OpenDocument&style=Press_Room
"When targeted at a standard 0.13µm, 1.2V ASIC process, the new version of the ARM7TDMI core achieves a worst case frequency of >133MHz, a die area of 0.26mm2 and typical power consumption of less than 0.06mW/MHz. This represents a 50 percent reduction in die area and more than 75 percent reduction in power consumption over earlier 0.18µm implementations. "
http://hardware.earthweb.com/chips/article.php/600071
"Of course the switch from 180 to 130nm manufacturing means a smaller die (if no additional core logic is added), less power consumption (meaning less heat output), and greater scalability."

ConceptVBS

07-25-2003, 06:38 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered
Anyway, Intel is already close to releasing it's own 533MHz processor on the 0.18u technology which should have better power performance.

http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2003/2/2003-2-18-Intel-to-Update.html

I dont see it mention anything about a 533Mhz chip.

n2ifp

07-25-2003, 07:11 PM

Originally posted by ConceptVBS

I dont see it mention anything about a 533Mhz chip.

No, but it has 512KB of Flash Memory :D

BTW, I am not the unregistered