Posted by ketyung
on Nov/09/2009
at 10:20 am
Low-power mobile devices such as netbooks will be able to let you enjoy full HD contents on them in near future. ZiiLABS, a subsidiary of of Creative Technology Ltd has announced the 3rd gen of their media-rich app processor, ZMS-08, which promises better processing power for full HD contents on low-power mobile devices.
The ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 is a system on a single chip that borrows a couple of features of its predecessor including 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, and HD video conferencing via simultaneous 720p encoding and decoding. And it offers more such as OpenGL ES 2.0 support, integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration.
The ZMS-08 media accelerator chip is paired with an 1GHz ARM® Cortex™ processor, which runs on custom Android and Plaszma OS and allows low-power but high-performance media-rich processing on low-power mobile devices such as web tablets, netbooks, connected TVs, video conferencing system and home media hubs.
ZiiLABS has signed up with a number of clients and is expecting the first shipments to be in Q1 of 2010. The following diagram shows the architecture diagram of the chip.
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