With Nvidia, Texas Instruments, and Qualcomm in their sites, Broadcom took to the digital stage to announce a new venture — mobile processors. The party starts February 14th at Mobile World Congress, where Broadcom will have several of the new BCM28150 chips on hand for demo purposes.
In case you were a tad curious, the BCM28150 makes use of dual 1.1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor cores (given the name “Merlyn” processor) and VideoCore IV mobile multimedia/graphics technology — fancy words for 1 Gigapixel per second of graphics performance. Integrated 21 Mbps HSPA+ and 1080p support are further icing on the cake.
It all certainly sounds nice. But we’ll have to wait until Mobile World Congress shows us some actual hardware powered by said chip before we form any lasting ideas or conclusions.
[Broadcom]
