Category: notebook components
By: Raghav Kapoor
Samsung unveils 1GHz Hummingbird mobile CPU
It will compete against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform
Samsung Hummingbird to take on Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Samsung and Intrinsity have together developed a new 1GHz mobile processor codenamed the Hummingbird. It is based on the 45nm ARM Cortex A8 architecture that not only promises high media and data crunching performance in mobile devices, it also promises lower power consumption and lower cost.
Hummingbird mobile CPU comes with 32KB of data and instruction cache, a variable-size L2 memory cache, and the ARM NEON multimedia extension. With NEON, the Hummingbird can promise hardware video encoding and decoding, 2D/3D graphics, audio/voice/speech processing, and sound synthesis that’s more than twice as powerful as previous ARM-based chips.
Samsung is currently working on SoC (System-on-Chip) implementations of the Hummingbird, which will likely be positioned to take on Qualcomm’s similar 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. The Snapdragon platform boasts of processors that have a faster clock speed of 1.3GHz or 1.5GHz but, their entry level CPU has a clock speed of 1GHz. Samsung’s Hummingbird is sure to set the stage on fire by giving OEMs an option to choose between the Snapdragon and the Hummingbird.
Users have already seen Snapdragon based devices like MIDs, smartbooks, and smartphones. Snapdragon has also found use in netbooks made by manufacturers like Wistron and Inventec, which were also showcased at Computex 2009. Thus, users can expect the Hummingbird CPU to power small mobile devices in the future. It is too early to compare the performance and pricing of these two technologies thus, users will just have to wait and watch.
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