Marvell Unveil Armada 628 Tri-Core Chip

Marvell (The Hardware corporation not the Comics book publisher) have taken the wrapper off their new baby, the Armada 628 application processor. It is a beast of a processor with 3 cores, two of which will be running at a nippy 1.5 GHz. It crams in enough power to render 200 million triangles per second and can support simultaneous dual 1080p video streams.

Battery life is another area where the chip can boast some impressive specs and claims to be \"ultra\" low in its power consumption. 1080p video should last for 10 hours and you would be looking at somewhere in the vicinity of 140 hours of music playback. It also packs in support for USB 3.0. There is no word on when exactly it will be released, but hopefully soon as smartphones could do with a boost, especially in the power consumption department!