Samsung Announces Dual-Core Cortex A9 Chipset

Samsung has announced the forthcoming availability of a new application chipset meant to be the successor to its own Hummingbird application processor, which it’s manufacturing for sale to interested manufacturers and based off of the Cortex A9 series of application chipsets.

The chipset, codenamed Orion will feature a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores, each with a 32KB data cache and a 32KB instruction cache. Samsung has also included a 1MB L2 cache, 1080p video encoding/decoding at 30fps, embedded GPS transceiver, a native triple display controller and on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface which will allow devices to output video to up to three displays.  Sampling will begin at the end of the year for select manufacturers, with commercial availability beginning next year.