Companion processor supports video editing on the phone

摘要

Semiconductor start-up Movidia has announced the MAI 110 multimedia processor for mobile phones. The MAI 110 operates as an attached processor to the baseband or to another applications processor in medium- to high-end phone designs to enable high-performance in-phone-video postproduction in real time on low power budgets.rnThe concept supports social-networking applications on phones in which users capture, edit, and publish video without using a PC. The chip includes interfaces to dualrncameras with resolution as high as 12M pixels, the host processors, displays, and external memory when necessary; 1.4MB of memory is on-chip.The chip has a host RISC processor and extensive graphics-manipulation IP (intellectual property) hard-coded into silicon.