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San Francisco - Intel's competitors in the development of computer chips, Marvell enough attention in this CES 2010. The reason is, they show the new product Quadcore ARM processor.

ARM processor-based SOC (sistems on a chip) is digadang staying as a competitor of besutan Qualcomm chip, NVIDIA and Broadcom. Because, like Qualcomm, Marvell make their own chip design and no design to license the ARM Cortex A9, which buried one of them on Tegra Nvidia's second generation SOC.

Launched through Hexus.net, Monday (1/11/2010), Marvell chip quadcore besutan was not given a name. But the technology that supports it must be similar to existing technology on the chip 500 and 600 FLEET besutan Marvell as well.

In addition to this Quadcore processor, Marvell also launched ARMADA 610. This device is claimed is the first application processor capable of carrying 1080p encodes and decodes into mobile devices.

One was immersed in an eReader. Marvell also introduced eReader is designed with features ARMADA 610. Marvell also announced a partnership with E Ink to market these devices in the near future, as well as some devices equipped with a chip ARMADA 166E.

Marvell's ARMADA is equipped with a CPU 610 gigahertz speed, 1080p video encoding and decoding, and integrated 3D acceleration is very fast. ARMADA 600 Series runs the same instructions as ARMv7 processor ARM Cortex-A8, with the presence of a shorter pipaline that can allow for faster execution.

ARMADA 610 can render 3D process 45 million per second and fourth control screen resolution of 2.000x2.000 pixels achieving each. Thus making it more powerful than the PowerVR SGX 530 core which is used in Motorola Droid and graphics cores on QSD8250 Snapdragonnya Qualcomm.

In this case, the chip is 610 ARMADA appears with support for Android-based operating system, Linux, and Windows Mobile / CE. Marvell chip itself to target the 610 FLEET intended for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), portable media player connected, eReaders, smartphones, personal information and the latest equipment. (srn)