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Freescale answered our power prayers with the introduction of its i.MX 6 processor suite at CES earlier in 2011, but left us longing for a demo. Well, the outfit gave us all, our first glimpse at the healthiest processing muscle in the bunch, the quad-core i.MX 6. Sporting four ARM Cortex A9 cores and a 64-bit memory bus, the reference design board was seen running a 1080p video demo and Quake at the same time and it didn't have any trouble to cater to the specification requirements. Freescale says it's currently working with Google on making the processor Honeycomb compatible, but it is still time for that since i.MX 6 is not expected to make its way into real deal machines until 2012.

Freescale launched the first demo of the quad core application processor, the i.MX 6 at the FTF 2011. The powerful processor is capable of dual streaming of 1080p video and supports 3D encode and 3D decode while playing high end graphics simultaneously. The i.MX 6 quad core processor supports 3D HD video playback, 1080p HD video conferencing and HD multi screen video playback. http://www.todaycomponents.com/omron-h3ca-a-switch.html The integrated IOs include HDMI v1.4, MIPI and LVDS display ports, MIPI CSI-2 camera, Gigabit Ethernet, multiple USB 2.0 and PCI Express.  Freescale assures comprehensive security with their latest quad core processor.

The unique graphics unit has undergone several changes from previous generations and although the device used in the demo was a reference model and despite the device having seven day old silicon it managed to have the video unit running in the first twenty four hours, the graphics unit running in the first 48 hours while a Linux Windows CE Operating System was booted during the same time and the processor managed to respond phenomenally.

It was certainly clear at the demo that Freescale would get the company’s in house software guys to work on the hardware to make it Windows compatible along with Android and several other operating systems to capitalize on the consumer electronics market boom.

Freescale is certainly optimistic about the graphics processing and computing ability of the quad core processor and they are aiming at automotive and industrial verticals apart from consumer products. The objective certainly is to offer a superior and hitherto inexperienced processing power. From the demo, apparently the real intent of the company has been into development of revolutionary bus networks and silicone blocks that have not been exploited till date.