Marvell’s ARMADA 618 is a 1GHz low-power smartphone processor that is capable amazing big boy processor tasks, like running three separate, independent displays with Full HD 1080p quality!! The guys at SlashGear caught the demo at MobileFocus 2010 where they’ve been showing off just what the ARMADA 618 is capable of. Two demo stations were set up, one with a compact PMP-style device plugged, via HDMI, into a full-sized 1080p plasma TV, and another running a second, compact LCD panel.
Not only was each device running 1080p playback but they were doing so by running a benchmarking demo video on the main unit, and playing video on the second panel. The 1080p HD feed was smooth and jitter-free, but according to Marvell the main 1GHz CPU isn’t under stress; that means you can continue using the device for other things even during high-resolution playback.
The Guys over at SlashGear asked the Marvell team what differentiated the ARMADA 618 from NVIDIA’s second-gen Tegra or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon. The difference is meant to be that the 618 is more efficient and directly suited to smartphones than the NVIDIA platform. One little extra that we aren’t sure who would use but is still cool to have is unlike Snapdragon the 618 has direct Blu-ray bitstream playback meaning if you had suitable drivers you could apparently plug in a Blu-ray drive and begin playing back footage from your smartphone.
Here is the video!!
Thanks SlashGear
