Abstract :
Intrinsity boosts the brainpower of a cellphone chip to the level of a PC. It had taken the 650-megahertz ARM Cortex-A8-a CPU designed for smartphones, licensed to Samsung by ARM Holdings-and hot-rodded it into a 1-gigahertz processor dubbed Hummingbird. The result could, with Samsung´s backing, power an impressive portion of the next generation of must-have mobile devices. Some even speculate that Apple itself will put Hummingbird in a coming upgrade to its iPhone. It´s all happening very quickly for a start-up that still shares office space with a local magazine and a dentist.
Keywords :
coprocessors; mobile computing; mobile handsets; ARM Cortex-A8; ARM Holdings; Apple iPhone; Hummingbird; Intrinsity; Samsung; brainpower; cellphone chip; cerebral cortex; frequency 1 GHz; frequency 650 MHz; mobile CPU; mobile devices; smartphones; Cellular phones; Cerebral cortex; Fuels; Logic devices; Logic gates; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Portable computers; Smart phones; Wheels;
