Texas Instruments announced its new OMAP 5 mobile platform, a super-advanced mobile chipset that will not only offer 3X processing power of current cutting-edge processors, but also have longer battery life.
OMAP 5 is the first chipset based on the brand-new ARM Cortex-A15 processor, which offers support for more than 4GB of memory. The dual-core A15 (at up to 2-GHz per core) will be accompanied by a multi-core Imagination PowerVR SGX544 GPU, which delivers 5X better graphics performance over current SGX540.
Other features in OMAP 5 are USB 3.0, SATA 2, SDXC high-capacity Flash memory support, coprocessor support, 24-megapixel camera module support, and 1080p 3D video capture at 60 FPS.
OMAP5 will go to manufacturers in the 2nd half of 2011, and devices will start to ship in the second half of 2012.
