Renesas Technology has in progress sample its most recent ARM-based chip, the 45nm SH-Mobile APE4; assemble around ARM's Cortex A8 structural design.

The new-fangled chip ought to convey clocks in surplus of 1GHz as well as present 1080p decoding. It's outfitted with Imagination's PowerVR SGX2 graphics engine able of sustaining WXGA+ displays with a PAL/NTSC encoder with an HDMI transmitter. The microprocessor also features two USB 2.0 controllers along with 3 SD host controllers.

Renesas hopes to make out the new-fangled CPU in mobile phones as well as mobile internet devices, but we're presuming it may be an excellent option for smartbook manufacturers. Samsung as well as ZiiLabs have by now declared 1GHz ARM processors and the market for more influential, HD capable ARM chips seems to be there, even though we haven't seen any in actual products just so far.