ZiiLABS Announces ZMS-20, ZMS-40 Processors For Android 3.0 Tablets

ZiiLABS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology, today introduced its most powerful Zii family of energy-efficient media processors, ZMS-20 and ZMS-40.

Targeting the up and coming tablet computing markets, the ZMS-20 (with Dual-Core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Processors) and ZMS-40 (with Quad-Core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Processors) feature an array of up to 96 Stemcell media processing cores.

ZMS-20 Key Features:

• Dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores with Neon
• ZiiLABS Stemcell media processing capabilities
  • Low-energy SIMD architecture for high-performance media acceleration
  • 48 x 32-bit floating point media processing cores for 26GFlops of computing power
  • High Profile H.264 video playback at 1080p@30fps
  • Wide range of accelerated video codecs including H.264, VC1 and VP8
  • High-definition, low-latency video conferencing
  • Optimised OpenGL ES 2.0 for robust 3D graphics acceleration and application compatibility
  • Accelerated OpenCL 1.1 (desktop profile) integrated into Android NDK
  • High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image Processing
  • High-quality Text-to-Speech and Voice Recognition
  • 150 MPixel/sec image processing
  • Adobe Flash 10 acceleration
• Integrated HDMI 1.4 with 3D stereo support
• 1GB addressable memory
  • DDR2/3 at 533 MHz for low cost
  • LPDDR2 for maximum memory bandwidth and low-power
  • 64-bit wide memory bus
• Quad independent video controllers supporting 24-bit displays and cameras
• 3V3 and 1V8 I/O's reduce peripheral power consumption
• Dual USB 2.0 HS OTG (Host/Peripheral) controllers with PHY for low system cost
• Three independent SDIO/MMC controllers
• Extended battery life with robust Dynamic Power Management and Instantaneous On
• Xtreme Fidelity X-Fi audio effects
• Enhanced Security: 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and TrustZone

The ZMS-20 is sampling now to select customers and is scheduled for volume shipment to customers in the 3rd quarter of 2011. Detailed specifications of the ZMS-40 will be announced later. Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets and associated design-kits based on the ZMS-20 will be showcased at Computex 2011.

Source: Creative Technology

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