Thread: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
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buchanmilne is offline buchanmilne
2011-01-21 , 17:44
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#122
Originally Posted by LordNelson View Post
The SoCs inside the phones aren't just a ARM-Processor. There's usually a DSP too and maybe some hardware accelerators for video and other things.
The hardware enumeration from the boot log fragment showed a lot of non-typical-PC hardware (e.g. GPS on I2C bus).

I don't think that a crappy 1,5 GHz Atom would decode 1080p in realtime at all
Depends more on the GPU, my Acer Revo R3610p (1.6GHz Atom 330 Dual Core) running XBMC plays 1080p h.264 with about 15% CPU utilisation. This is because the NVidia ION GPU it has has hardware-accelerated h.264 decoding.

I rather guess that Nokia may bring out some MeeGo Tablet, that may have an Atom processor.
Of course, thus my comment that Nokia working on Atom-based development kits doesn't necessarily have anything to do with *handsets*, tablets are probably a better target with Atom?
 

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