[maemo-developers] Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

[From: Klaus Rotter]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Here's a good reason to switch from OMAP to iMX31 in next gen device....
> Combine this with AMD's decision to open source the specs.

Maybe... but there are a couple of things which vote against it:

1) The Hardware used in the N800 is also used in various other Nokia 
products. The designers of the N770 and N800 had to use parts which will 
  be bought for other products (e.g. N9x series) as well. So there is 
just a chance to switch, if the developers of the N9x series will also 
switch...

2) To open the specs for some ATI/AMD graphics architecture does not 
mean that all specs are open. Even the Xorg programmers said, that the 
specs opened just covers the 2D part.

3) I have just read the iMX31 product brief. The MPEG-4 _encoder_ is 
nice, but I don't see a dedicatet DSP on board. I think that there is a 
lot of TI DSP code running on the N9x series. See 1)...

At least, the N800 just _has_ a 3D gfx accelerator. If we just get the 
specs...

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