Watch out Mr HTC Flyer, the ZiiLabs ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 processors are going to bring the same clock speed and multiple cores to ARM Cortex A9 processors Published on May 11, 2011
ZiiLabs has announced two new processors built on the ARM Cortex A9 chip designed with specific Android Honeycomb optimisations.
The ZMS-20 dual core and the ZMS-40 quad core systems-on-chip will run at the same mighty clock speed as the HTC Flyer, 1.5GHz, with the added benefit of multiple core technology. This should result in faster processing and more effective multi-tasking for Android tablets rocking Google's tablet-focused operating system.
We don't doubt its pedigree, as ZiiLabs says, 'everything that we know is encapsulated in this chip [ZMS-20]. It is the best chip that we have done.'
Want some lengthy tech lingo to impress your friends? The ZMS-20 uses a StemCell Media Processing Array, which will allegedly triple application performance over its forerunner, the ZMS-08. The ZMS-08 can be found in Creative's ZiiO 7-inch and 10-inch Android tablets.
We hope manufacturers adopt these processors, as not only is quad core unheard of in the tablet world, dual core is certainly a lot faster if the Optimus 2X and the Samsung Galaxy S2 are anything to go by.
Whether or not that much processing power is needed at this time is debatable, but as apps and accessories become ever-more sophisticated, extra processing juice is going to prove helpful. We just wonder at what point will tablets meet laptops?
Check out the video below to see the ZMS-20 in action.
TagsZiiLabs | ZMS-20 | ZMS-20 | Dual core | Quad core | CPU | Processor | Cortex A9 | ARM | Honeycomb | 3.1 Android
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