ZiiLABS, subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd, has introduced
its Zii family of energy-efficient media processors, the
ZMS-20 and the ZMS-40.
Targeting the up and coming explosive tablet computing
markets, the ZMS-20 (with Dual-Core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9
Processors) and ZMS-40 (with Quad-Core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9
Processors), besides having more than generous ARM processing
power, are turbo-charged by an array of up to 96 Stemcell
media processing cores to give an incredible performance
of up to 100 processor cores, previously unheard of in the
handheld mobile device markets, claims ZiiLABS.
Engineered for the high-resolution tablet computing markets,
the ZMS-20 combines ZIiLABS' 48 Stemcell media processing
cores with dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors with
Neon to deliver 1080p high profile video playback, immersive
OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics, HD video calling and a rich desktop
browsing experience including Adobe Flash Player.
These media processors are designed for high resolution
tablet computers running on Android 3.0 OS.
"Designed to increase application performance by 4X
over the ZMS-08 processor, the ZMS-20 was specifically engineered
to meet the performance and power efficiency requirements
of high-resolution Android tablets more effectively than
any other processor on the market," said Hock Leow,
President of ZiiLABS. "The ZMS-08 established our leadership
position for High Profile H.264 playback and the ZMS-20
takes that to the next level by adding dual ARM Cortex-A9
cores plus a host of new features such as DDR3 and LPDDR2
support, HDMI 1.4 and OpenCL."
"We are targeting this amazing family of ZMS-20 and
the ZMS-40 Zii Stemcell media processors dead-on the explosive
tablet computing market. The competitively priced ZMS-20,
and the ZMS-40 with its quad Cortex-A9 cores will herald
a new generation of low-cost, low-power yet high-performance
tablets, mobile thin clients for cloud computing and other
embedded appliances for the post-PC era," said Sim
Wong Hoo, Chairman and CEO of Creative Technology Ltd.
"The design and development of ZMS-40 is done, we
will unleash it to ride on the up and coming new wave of
tablet computing revolution. The scalable ZMS-40 will lead
the way to show the world that tablet computing can be truly
effective and without any compromise. With the ZMS-40, we
will be able to bring the performances of tablets or other
handheld devices to rival notebooks and even desktop PCs."
Sim added.
"As consumer demand for smarter connected devices
increases, so does the industry's requirement for low-power,
high performance semiconductor solutions," commented
Eric Schorn, Vice President Marketing, Processor Division,
ARM. "The combination of Cortex-A9 processors incorporating
ARM NEON and TrustZone technologies provides the multicore
technology to drive the latest Android tablets and ensure
a high-quality user experience."
ZMS-20 Key Features
Dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores with Neon
ZiiLABS flexible 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 compute
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
Optimized 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 HDM1 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
Availability:
The ZMS-20 is sampling now to select customers and is scheduled
for volume shipment to customers in the 3rd quarter of 2011.
