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Motorola reportedly launching a 2 GHz phone

by Scott Bicheno on 11 June 2010, 12:09

Tags: Motorola (NYSE:MSI)

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Bolt from the blue

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha recently gave a presentation regarding its handset roadmap. While not reported by the likes of Reuters, tech blog ConceivablyTech has reported that Jha said Motorola will be releasing a phone containing a processor with a frequency of 2 GHz.

The author of the story is an established and well-known tech journo, but it seems bizarre that Jha would make such a claim as we're not aware of any of the leading SoC-makers having a chip with such a high frequency on their roadmap, and certainly not for this year.

The Motorola Milestone currently uses a TI OMAP 3430, clocked well under 1 GHz. Even if this handset used an OMAP 4 chip, which isn't expected to start appearing in phones until next year, each of the dual-cores aren't expected to be clocked much above 1 GHz. If it switched to Qualcomm's Snapdragon, the highest frequency on that roadmap is currently 1.5 GHz.

But the report cites an anonymous Motorola executive for confirmation that it will be an NVIDIA Tegra chip. The current, dual-core Tegra 2 uses ARM's Cortex A9 design. ARM has spoken about a speed-optimised implementation of Cortex A9 for TSMC's 40nm-G process that can reach 2 GHz, but we're not aware of any claims made by NVIDIA about frequencies this high, and its own literature claims frequencies no higher than 1 GHz.

Of course there are other SoC makers, such as Marvell, Samsung and Freescale, but if one of them has made a 2 GHz chip then they've kept pretty quiet about it.

Elsewhere, another tech blog - this time Droid Life - has got hold of what appears to be the successor to Motorola's Droid handset - known as the Milestone over here. Apart from revamping the QWERTY keyboard, the chassis looks pretty similar but, according to the reported specs, it will have a 750 MHz OMAP chip.

That would probably make it an OMAP 4430, so maybe we'll be seeing the 4 series sooner than expected. Here's a vid of the Droid 2 booting up.

 

 



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Maybe somebody made a gaffe when describing a dual-core 1GHz chip?
Steve
Maybe somebody made a gaffe when describing a dual-core 1GHz chip?

It's common on eBay, mid-advertising by those who don't understand the technical stuff. I've seen many Quad core's described as AMAZING 12GHz CPU!
Its fairly obvious, Droid 2, he means two droids?
One core for flash, and one core for everything else?
Wow, after just getting rid of a crappy Motorola android phone it seems sensible that they'd make a new one that would crash twice as often!