Marvell introduced the world's first 1.5 GHz tri-core application processor, the Marvell ARMADA 628. They call it a "muscle car." With three processors, it will increase speed, offer more caching, 3D video, dual 1080p HD video capabilities, and ability to display video on multiple simultaneous displays.
The chip incorporates a full System-on-a-Chip design (SoC) with three high performance Marvell-designed ARM-compliant CPU cores operating as the world's first commercially available heterogeneous, multi-core, applications processor.The architecture is analogous to a hybrid muscle car. The ARMADA 628 is intended to perform like a race car engine on demand, while still delivering the frugal gas mileage of a hybrid automobile. In real world terms, this enables the ARMADA 628 to play more than 10 hours of full 1080p HD video or 140 hours of music on a single charge while still providing 3 GHz of raw computational horsepower.
Key Features:
- World's first "tri-core" application processor.
- Up to 1.5 GHz for the two main cores and 624 MHz for the third low power core.
- "Heterogeneous multiprocessing" with "hardware-based Cache Coherence."
- 1 MB System Level 2 Cache.
- Platform leading multimedia capabilities, including support for both WMMX2 and NEON acceleration; and a highly optimized pipelined VFPv3 floating point engine.
- Member of the ARMADA family of processors for easy software porting.
- 1080p dual-stream 3D video applications (30 FPS, multi-format).
- Ultimate 3D graphics performance with quad unified shaders for 200 million triangles per second (MT/s).
- High performance, integrated image signal processor (ISP).
- Ability to project images on multiple simultaneous displays:
- 2 LCDs.
- 1 HDMI.
- 1 advanced EPD controller.
- Peripherals support: USB 3.0 Superspeed Client, MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, HDMI with integrated PHY, UniPro, Slimbus, SPMI.
Availability
The ARMADA 628 is currently available for sampling to customers. For more information, please go to www.marvell.com.