A few months ago I wrote up about RIM’s love story with the Marvell PXA930 Processor from Marvell. That same 624Mhz processor has been in GSM BlackBerrys since the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and was getting VERY old since it came out in 2008. Now we finally have rumors that RIM is upgrading the processor (at least in the refreshed Curve line) to a 800Mhz Marvell Tavor MG-1 CPU. At first I thought “Finally RIM is getting with the program.” Turns out there is a little more to the story…
The Marvell Tavor MG-1 CPU seems to also be known as a PXA930 processor. Sound familiar? Yeah it is seems to be a faster clocked version of the 624Mhz PXA930 processor that we have had for the last few years. The 800Mhz version of the Tavor PXA930 actually also came out in 2008 and started shipping in phones during 2009. On the other hand I am still kind of confused since this report has the BlackBerry Torch running a slightly modified PXA940 processor…
Either way it looks like RIM finally found a way to stuff a faster processor into the upcoming BlackBerry line without having to move to a new architecture. Nice going team RIM! I am hoping that BlackBerry 6.1 won’t even have a hourglass in the OS. 🙂
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