Samsung claims speed crown for mobile chip

SAMSUNG is making big claims for its new mobile processor, claiming to have beaten Intel to develop what it says is the world's fastest mobile processor, with a core speed of 533MHz.

The South Korean company's new ARM9-based S3C2440 is a 0.13-micron process, sporting an ARM920T core with 16 kbyte of both I and D cache, a four-channel DMA controller, an LCD DMA/controller, a camera interface, a JTAG interface and a USB controller.

The chip supports Windows CE, Palm, Symbian and Linux operating systems. It also delivers support for both TFT and STN LCD displays and will be available in 300-, 400-, and 533- MHz speeds running from a 0.13-V core supply.

The processor is due to go into volume production in the fourth quarter of 2003, Samsung says. µ