Nvidia's New Mobile Media Processor

univeralifepadre writes "Saw this scroll by quickly on the TechTV ticker; Nvidia has a new GPU for handhelds, the GoForce 2150. It supports image capture up to 1.3 megapixels, has hardware jpeg encoding, and a 64-bit 2d graphics engine."

What, no 3D?

[BlueLightning]

(half-joking here)

Re:What, no 3D?

[ihatesco]

(half-joking here)

You may half-joke, but I Aol. When we will see cheap, low-power 3d acceleration for handelds? Do we really need to wait PSP?

Doom on a cell phone.

[Matrix2110]

I am there.

Hope I don't kill real people in the process.

Re:Doom on a cell phone.

[bjpirt]

Doom on a cellphone [demon.co.uk]

Good stuff.

[ihatesco]

At least on paper it seems to be a good device.

In hardware it has acceleration for the most common kind of graphic needs required by phone guis... it includes the sub-pixel LCD color dithering (so that you can also read document too). Interfaces both to Motorola and AMD devices...

I think we will be seeing many of those chipsets around. Too bad that we will usually not know which chipset a phone ships with :(

Uh oh

[Anonymous Coward]

"while extending handheld battery life through a variety of unique power management techniques"

Let's hope that's not marketspeak for "sucks up lots of juice in normal mode".

Sweet!

[n1ywb]

Thats a good damn idea! The graphics performance on my Axim is ghetto. PokeNES is almost unplayable. Legend of Zelda works okay but SMB3? Forget it, way to choppy. Even at 400MHz. It's too bad really, PocketPCs could very easily be a high-end mobile gaming platform, they just need better controls and better graphics performance.

Is that all it does?

[kinnell]

I fail to see the advantage of this. If you are going to produce a video coprocessor for handhelds, why not include mpeg encode/decode? Why not partner with someone else to also include audio encode/decode. More to the point, why not put everything onto a system-on-chip, along with the CPU, like sony have done with their handheld engine?

Presumably Nvidia think they have a market for this chip, but I think selling it as an IP core would be a much smarter idea.

Bulverde

[buback]

sounds like the image capture features of this chip might overlap the abilities on intel's next xscale processor, which has some sort of ccd controler built in.

That might make this chip more prominent in devices with samsung processors, whith intel new Bulverde processor pairing with ati.

What kind of a name is that?

[wouterke]

"Go Force, Go".

I knew about "Use the Force, Luke", but this one beats everything.