The rapidly-growing notebook market causes an increased interest in the base element producers . According to associate , freescale semiconductor company is intended to present a microcircuit for notebook, which as it was asserted, will allow to make these devices cheaper than $200. Currently, the most popular notebook models are in the price range $300-400.
This development, is made by freescale specialists on ARM core and will supplement the line of i.MX products. The new single-crystal system i.MX51 is characterized by the high integration degree : in its composition, besides the processor core, enters the DDR/DDR2 controller, vector block floating-point calculations, blocks hardware acceleration of graphic operations with openGL and Open VG support, Ethernet and ATA controllers. In this case the chip differs in terms of the small energy consumption : According to some company estimation , notebook with this chip equipped with 8,9 inches display , will be able to work from one two cell lithiumionic battery up to eight hours. For comparison : contemporary notebook work only about two hours from 4 cells lithiumionic battery . Reference models, prepared by Freescale, work under ubuntu OS.
The tentative price of i.MX51 in the complete set with power control microcircuit and OS is $20. The development Of freescale will be available on CES exhibition. Related Products :
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