TZ5000 series SoC from Toshiba featuring Imagination IP

Toshiba launched a new series of apps processors (for STB and similar) packed with IMG IP:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140220006696/en/Toshiba-Launches-Application-Processors-Supporting-Wireless-Communication#.Uwdzv6vKcwM

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of the “TZ5000 series” of application processors supporting wireless communication of high quality video, as the latest addition to its ApP Lite™. Sample shipments will start in May, with mass production scheduled to start in September, 2014.

Increasingly, delivery of video and audio over the internet (OTT: Over The Top¹) requires set top boxes and similar equipment to receive the service and distribute contents to PCs and smartphones via wireless LAN. The “TZ5000 series” application processors integrate a baseband function compliant with IEEE802.11ac, the standard for high speed wireless LAN, and also incorporate 32Gbit NAND flash memory in a single package. This secures a broad bandwidth connection, which is often limited when each component is individually mounted on a PCB, and also reduces mounting area, contributing to downsizing of equipment.

The series also adopts an original low power design, reducing power consumption and heat generation when processing multimedia applications, such as HTML5, which usually imposes a heavy load to the CPU.

Applications

OTT tuners, IP media box, wearable devices, digital signage equipment, and thin client devices²

Key Specifications of New Product
Part Number		TZ5000MBG		TZ5001MBG
Secure Boot System Control		Not supported		Supported
Wi-Fi®		Embedded IEEE802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2x2 MIMO Baseband Engine (Ensigma™ C4500)
Flash Memory		Embedded 32Gbit MLC NAND
CPU		Dual-core ARM® Cortex®-A9 MPCore / NEON™ ~1.2GHz
GPU		PowerVR™ SGX540
VPU		PowerVR™ VXD395
Graphics Engine		1080p@60fps Multi Format Decoder, IPC, Scalar, Rotator, Composer
High-Speed I/O		DDR3/3L/LP-DDR3, USB OTG, SDIO, HDMI®, MIPI® CSI and DSI

MWC is next week so there should be plenty to report.