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New Video Chip for Mobile Market by IBM and Rapport

Is this the end for shuttering video feeds on mobile devices? IBM and a startup company named Rapport are saying that it is. The two companies previewed what they call a "breakthrough energy-efficient processor design". The new chip will be able to stream live high-definition footage on mobile devices at up to 10 times the speed of existing processors.

The chip startup already offers the KC256, which has 256 processing elements, and provides more than 25 gigabyte operations/second under a single watt of power. These Kilicore chips can be dynamically reconfigured for compute-intensive applications, including mobile gaming, homeland security, server components, image processing, consumer electronics and what Rapport referred to as "suitcase supercomputing."

The forthcoming Kilocore1025 processor, based on both Rapport`s technology as well as IBM`s Power architecture, isn`t slated for availability until early next year. As for products based on Rapport`s chips, "2007 isn`t too early to expect products based on our KC256," Debby Hindus, VP of product marketing and co-founder of Rapport, told Internet News. "Products based on our 1025 will take a longer to come out."