Thread: Nokia FCC filing reveals more details on next tablet
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-11-19 , 08:38
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Originally Posted by BanditRider
... This suggests a new processor that supports the ARMv6 architecture.

This Whitepaper on the ARMv6 architecture lists some interesting new features especially for multimedia.

Happy speculating
Well, I don't have ARM11 based device to do real performance tests yet, but from the instructions timings description, it looks like Pentium4 from the ARM world Surely it contains some additional multimedia instructions (just like P4 with latest SSE) and it may get faster on some special tasks because of this (multimedia as you mentioned), but it will be somewhat slower on ordinary code if compared with ARM9 cpu per clock. See more info in this thread: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=2406
I just hope that it will be clocked high enough to outperform Nokia 770.

But much more interesting features for me are unaligned memory access support and availability of fpu. If they get supported, porting applications will get much easier (a drawback is that if applications start depending on these features, they will be not usable on Nokia 770 and support only Nokia 870 (or whatever name if will have)).

Also I wonder about DSP core, will it be still used in this new device?
Last edited by Serge; 2006-11-19 at 08:54.