News.com had an interesting article here detailing the next generation OMAP processor coming from Texas Instruments. Dubbed the “OMAP 3″, the new mobile processor is slated to hit the market sometime in 2008 and will provide capabilities never before seen on mobile devices such as phones and PDAs. The OMAP 3 will make possible enhancements such as delivering high definition video at 1368 x 720 resolutions. It’ll support 12 megapixel digital cameras on mobile phones (or four 3 megapixel shots taken in burst mode). Overall, mobile devices will have far greater performance - whether it’s watching videos over the net or surfing the web for news and content.

The TI OMAP 3 will be designed around the ARM Cortex A8 processor core and will be manufactured on a 65 nm process. OMAP 3 will also come with integrated graphics and cores for handling other functions. There will be several OMAP 3 processors for different markets. The OMAP 3430 will support HD video and 12 megapixel digital cameras. The OMAP 3420 will support 5 megapixel digital cameras and VGA quality video. Finally, the OMAP 3410 will support 3 megapixel digital cameras and lower-resolution video.

You can read more about this at News.com here.

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