We have been getting all giddy around here at the thought of mobile phone using the 1GHz snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. The processor promises all kinds of power and should make for a seriously robust smartphone.

Qualcomm isn’t the only new mobile CPU that has us all hot and bothered. Samsung has its new Hummingbird CPU based on the 45nm ARM Cortex A8 architecture. The CPU promises to deliver high media and data crunching performance.

At the same time the CPU will sip power, a necessity for mobile CPUs. Perhaps the big news is that Samsung has creatively reused some older tech in the new processor to keep chip prices relatively low. Hummingbird uses 32kb of data and instruction cache and a variable size L2 memory cache along with the ARM Neon multimedia extension. NEON allows the processor to process hardware video encoding and decoding, 2D/3D graphics, and more.

[via SlashGear]

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