Mobile Chips Of Change Makes Big Splash in Barcelona

"Texas Instruments last week announced its OMAP 5 architecture, and both Nvidia and Qualcomm followed quickly, announcing next-generation mobile processors this week at Mobile World Congress. Even as today's smartphones and tablets capture video in high definition and render graphics almost beyond the quality the eye can process, within a year these chipsets will allow phones to do even more."

"It hardly seems possible that just recently laptops were getting dual-core and quad-core processors. A year ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt noted during his keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the processing power of mobile phones was superior to the computing systems Sun was making earlier in his career. Not long ago, chip designers were talking about dual-core 1-Gz processing; it seemed far-fetched, but already these phones are starting to ship."