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Thursday, June 16, 2011

It Tunes last compressed Chip for Windows to OS

Texas Instruments Thursday announced a chip quad-core for tablets with features to stimulate demand and graphics performance in next Microsoft Windows OS.

The OMAP4470, which also targets smartphones and thin notebooks, will support Microsoft's DirectX technology to provide a gaming experience realistic for devices running the upcoming Windows operating system.

Microsoft earlier this year, said that the next Windows OS work on ARM processors, including the TI, Nvidia and Qualcomm chips. Offers Microsoft Windows 7 for x 86 chips Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and bundles DirectX tools for graphics and application performance.

The OMAP4470 chip has processors ARM powerful enough to run desktop applications, but power to be used in mobile devices, it said in a statement. DirectX will bring a new series of games and video applications to devices running on OMAP4470 chips, the company said.

The chip will also operate the combined processor processing power and a graphics core from Imagination Technologies to enable new DirectX applications, TI said.

It announced the chip at the Computex Taipei show. Rival NVIDIA and Qualcomm also detailed of processors ARM of quad-core for devices like the tablets at the show.

The OMAP4470 has a hybrid model, with two processors running at 1.8 GHz for high performance applications and two nuclei of low-power processor for secondary applications to extend the life of the battery of devices. Processors, high-performance, based on the ARM Cortex-A9 processor design, providing a boost of 80 per cent on the navigation on the Web from ancient TI chips, the company said.

The OMAPP4470 uses the heart of graphics PowerVR SGX544 of Imagination, it said that improves games, UI, Web and media applications. The chip will be able to play video back complete high definition, and a display subsystem support HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) for the devices can be connected to screen high-definition.

The chip takes a page from PC by harnessing the combined power of calculation of processors and graphics processors. Graphics processors are considered as being faster than the processors to run some calculations, and many tasks such as Adobe Flash applications are be unloaded graphics processor for faster processing. Parallel programming tools such as Microsoft's DirectX help manage parallel execution of tasks.

The chip also supports OpenCL, a standard of parallel programming supported by companies such as Intel, Apple, and Advanced Micro Devices.

In addition to the upcoming Windows OS, devices using the chip will be also able to run the operating system Google's Android, it said.

Devices based on the chip will reach market early in the year following, it said. The chip, using the 45 nanometer process, will be delivered sampling later this year.

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