Advancing high in terms of innovation, Marvell has announced the latest addition to the Armada family of application processors entitled the Armada 618. Designed for next generation HD-capable smartphones, the new offering offers a CPU core with PC-class performance.
The application processor powers smartphones with integrated 1080p full-HD encode and decode, and preeminent 3D graphics. It delivers a highly scalable and power optimized platform that is designed to fuel high-end applications, rich multimedia and gaming experience in a lightweight form factor with very less power consumption.
“Featuring a gigahertz CPU, 1080p full-HD video, 3D graphics, the industry’s fastest LP-DDR, and optimized power for longer battery life, Marvell’s Armada 618 application processor represents a dramatic leap forward in high-end, multimedia smartphones,” elaborated Weili Dai, Marvell’s Co-founder and Vice President and General Manager of Marvell Semiconductor’s Consumer and Computing Business Unit. “Importantly, the Armada 600 series of application processors gives our customers a common platform solution to build multiple products and formats for the always-on consumer–scaling from smartphones to eReaders to tablets without compromising either the multimedia performance or the battery life.”
Based on ARM v7 compatible CPU, the Armada 618 delivers gigahertz-class performance in a 12mm x 12mm package. In addition to its support for Linux, Android, Windows Mobile, and full Adobe Flash, the application processor comes equipped with a sturdy 3D graphics engine that endures DirectX, rendering up to 45 million triangles per second with a complete floating point pipeline and unified vertex and fragment/pixel shading.
Further, the device offers users the flexibility to use LP-DDR1 or LP-DDR2 memory up to 533 MHz, a flexible display controller capable of four simultaneous displays at up to 2K x 2K resolution, and an extremely powerful security subsystem that equips a secure execution processor.
The Armada 618 will be displayed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week. It is currently sampling to early customers. There’s no official word on the pricing details yet.