Nufront system-on-a-chip video

AT IDF 2010 in San Francisco this week, Chinese chipmaker Nufront was on hand to demonstrate its NuSmart 2816 device, based on a 2GHz dual-core ARM chip.

The system-on-a-chip is aimed at ultra-thin laptops, all-in-one desktops, netbooks and tablets and integrates much of the circuitry of an entire computer onto one component.

The chip integrates a 2GHz dual core Cortex-A9 processor alongside a multi-core 2D/3D graphics processor, DDR2/3 memory controller, plus I/O such as a Sata controller, Ethernet and USB 2.0, all with a power consumption of less than 2W when running at 1.6GHz, according to Nufront.

In this video, Nufront director of IC design Jensen Yang explains the design and how such systems could be used. µ