
Samsung Electronics unveiled a new system-on-chip (SOC) processor for handheld devices. The chip boasts a processor clock rate of 533MHz, and is aimed at enabling new services, functions, and multimedia capabilities for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones. The S3C2440 supports Linux, as well as the Windows CE, Palm OS, and Symbian embedded operating systems. The chip is based on an ARM920T 16/32-bit RISC microprocessor core.