Emblaze spotlights mobile processor smartphone apps
Staff | Date: Feb 10, 2004 | Comments: 1
Emblaze Semiconductor announced today that it is developing a mobile phone/PDA with integrated camera with Ningbo Bird, which has overtaken Motorola to become China's largest manufacturer of cell phones. Emblaze says the "advanced smartphone," which scheduled for mass production in 2004, incorporates its ER4521 mobile multimedia processor.
Emblaze says its ER4521 processor also serves as the core of its AlphaCell division's M5 smartphone design, which is powered by the Windows CE .NET operating system. In the M5, the ER4521 controls all basic phone functions plus a set of multimedia applications, including full-color display, integrated still and video camera applications, Internet browsing, personal information management, gaming and messaging services.
Emblaze says its smartphone processors include capabilities such as audio and video capture, video encoding/decoding, video display, and on-chip LCD controller, and the chips support wireless multimedia applications that include download to media flash, audio and video local playback, MP3/AAC player, audio and video streaming and messaging, digital video and still camera, MIDI decoding and playback, and full duplex video telephony. Additionally, the processors support both GSM and CDMA, and comply with leading industry standards including JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, H.263, JVT (H.264) and MP3, Emblaze says.
