Freescale announces i.MX 6 processor series, wants quad cores in your smartphone

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Power. We need more. More for streaming video, more for playing games,
and more just so that we can say we have it. Freescale hears us, and
it's delivering the i.MX 6 series of mobile processors offering up to
four ARM Cortex A9 cores at 1.2GHz each. That's plenty for 3D
rendering on your car infotainment system, music-making on your
smartphone, maybe a little SETI action on your next smart
refrigerator. Even 1080p30 video encoding is a said to be within these
chips' reach. i.MX 6 processors will be available in one, two, or four
core configurations with up to 1MB of L2 cache. HDMI 1.4 support is
onboard, along with gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, but sadly not 3.0.
It seems there's always something to look forward to in the next
revision, but that could be quite a wait with i.MX 6 sampling not set
to begin until "later this year."