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We know it's a little tough to get excited about a chip, even if that
chip is the hotly anticipated Samsung Orion. Still, bear with us,
because this isn't your average slab of cellphone silicon -- the
Orion's got a dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a quad-core Mali
400 GPU on board. We spotted it at the ARM Technology Conference this
week where it was pimping "Linaro" Linux middleware, as well as some
stock Android 2.2. Unfortunately, the development boards still have a
few kinks, so representatives couldn't show it pumping all those
pixels to nearby HDTVs -- though we did get a butter-smooth demo of
Futuremark's old Cyber Samurai benchmark running on the smaller
screen. There are still rumors of this chip hitting some products late
this year, but next year is much more likely. Either way, we're
expecting some pretty impressive benchmarks from this thing when it
inevitably winds up in the next Galaxy Tab or a flagship phone of some
sort.
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