Sony Ericsson's smartphone architecture

Ever wondered which processor powers-up your Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) Symbian UIQ 3-based smartphone? Thanks to My-Symbian, now we have an answer. Sony Ericsson’s smartphones (M600, W950 and P990) use:

• 208 MHz ARM9-based Philips Nexperia PNX4008 application processor
• video subsystem includes an encode acceleration JPEG decoder, an MPEG-4/H.263 encoder/decoder, and a graphic accelerator, plus LCD and camera interfaces
• 2D/3D graphics accelerator running at 80 MHz
• audio subsystem combines a fully dedicated DSP (digital signal processor) with integrated digital-analog converters (DACs) and analog-digital converters (ADCs)
• security subsystem consists of three coprocessors, a random number generator, and a unique secret crypto key that uses embedded fuses

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