STMicroelectronics Announces Availability of Multiple Software Platforms for Nomadik Application Processor

(Product News, 13 Feb 2008)

STMicroelectronics has announced multiple software platform availability and new hardware features of its STn8815 application processor, the third-generation product in the company's Nomadik family. The Nomadik processor is available to leading handset makers to develop the next-generation of mobile multimedia products with a choice of leading software platforms, including Symbian OS/S60, Linux, Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE. The STn8815 also now offers a wider range of packaging options, plus a boost in clock speed, up to 393MHz, of its ARM9 embedded microprocessor, equipped with a level 2 cached memory.

The STn8815 implements a multiple-core distributed architecture together with a series of breakthroughs in video-coding efficiency and inventive algorithms, enabling smart phones, feature-rich portable multimedia devices and players, Internet tablets, portable navigation devices and mobile TVs to play broadcasted media content, record images and video clips, and perform bidirectional audio-visual communication with other systems in real time.

"The Nomadik STn8815 has already been chosen for a myriad of leading-edge mobile consumer products from advanced multimedia phones to mobile TVs to portable navigation devices," said Teppo Hemia, Director of the Mobile Chipset Platform Business Unit within ST's Wireless Multimedia Division. "And now available with a pre-integrated choice of the leading mobile software platforms, the STn8815's best-in-class video performance is a simply unbeatable offering to meet the challenging time-to-market demands from multimedia handset makers."

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