ZiiLabs dual core ZMS-20 and quad core ZMS-40‎ for Honeycomb tablets unveiled

The ZMS-20 is a dual-core 1.5GHz Cortex A9 processor which the company says is 4 times faster than the ZMS-08. The ZMS-40 on the other hand is a quad-core processor which is able to deliver a clock speed of up to 6GHz. This all sounds amazing to us. What it simply means is that the ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 are micro-size media-powerhouse processors optimized for faster processing and more effective multi-tasking for Android tablets rocking Google’s tablet-focused operating system.

Other features include: 1080p video playback at 30 frames per second, H.264, VC1, VP8, and Adobe Flash 10 are hardware accelerated, OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenCL 1.1 support, HDMI 1.4 output, with 3D too, the ability to handle up to 1 GB of both DDR2/3 and LPDDR2, enabling hardware vendors to optimize for either cost or speed, and a whole bunch of other technical stuff that doesn’t really matter because the likelihood of you owning something with a ZiiLabs chip inside is slim and none.

With multi-core application acceleration and dynamic power management for longer battery life, the ZMS-20 delivers the efficient and high-performance platform required for the next generation of Android 3.0 based devices and beyond.

• Dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores with Neon
• ZiiLABS flexible Stemcell media processing capabilities
• Low-energy SIMD architecture for high performance media acceleration
• 48x 32-bit floating point processing cores for 26GFlops of compute
• High Profile H.264 video playback at 1080p@30fps
• Wide range of accelerated video codecs including H.264, VC1 and VP8
• High Definition, low latency video conferencing
• Optimised OpenGL ES 2.0 for robust application acceleration and compatibility
• Accelerated OpenCL 1.1 (desktop profile) integrated into Android NDK
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image Processing
• High-quality Text-to-Speech and Voice Recognition
• 200MHz Pixel clock image processing
• Adobe Flash 10 acceleration
• Integrated HDM1 1.4 with 3D stereo support
• DDR2/3 and 1066Mbps LPDDR2 for maximum memory bandwidth and low-power
• Quad independent video controllers supporting 24-bit displays and cameras
• 3V3 and 1V8 I/O’s reduce peripheral power consumption
• Dual USB 2.0 HS OTG (Host/Peripheral) controllers with PHY for low system cost
• Three independent SDIO/MMC controllers
• Extended battery life with robust Dynamic Power Management and Instantaneous On
• Xtreme Fidelity X-Fi audio effects
• Enhanced Security: 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and TrustZone