NEC rejuvenates music phones with an extra 50 hours of playback
Yesterday I discussed how 'Nokia After Killing Video Cams is Set to Slaughter MP3 Players' and giving this dream a boost NEC Electronics America has innovated a single-chip uPD99910 audio processor, combining the CPU and DSP in a single unit and also an interface dedicated to copyright protection media (a sort of DRM support), that adds 50 hours of more music to your phone, ultimately increasing the current capability of music phones at least ten-fold.
The new processor completely eliminates the possibility of battery drain. Coupled with an extra application processor and hence separating the music playing from the regular application processor, NEC has straight away taken the extra load off the main processor resulting in low power consumption and fast access.
Via: slashphone
