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Samsung Electronics has announced it is sampling its S5P6440an ARM11 series of application processors manufactured on 45nm low power CMOS process technology. The device will be targeted at electronic products and is scheduled for volume shipment in the third quarter of this year, according to the company.

Samsung's S5P6440 is based on an ARM1176 CPU core which runs at either 533MHz or 667MHz clock speed. The CPU core and all on-chip hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces are connected through a 64-bit AXI bus running at 166MHz. The S5P6440 also features 2D graphics acceleration hardware that is compliant with the OpenVG application programming interface (API) standard, the company said.