How many functions can you embed into mobile CPU? I don’t know the exact figure, but I’ll resume on telling you that Intel’s desktop CPUs are nothing compared to the latest Samsung Orion Cortex A9, a dual core mobile SoC (System on a chip) built in the 45 nm manufacturing process and running at 1GHz. Samsung announced the Orion Cortext A9 just a few moments ago and already made us drool looking at the list of specs.

    Let’s take it easy and see why the Samsung Orion Cortex A9 is the best mobile CPU to date: 5 times the 3D performance of current A8 chip, Full HD 1080p decoding and encoding at 30fps, GPS chip, HDMI 1.3a inteface and a graphic controller capable of dealing with three displays simultaneously!!! This means you could have a dual display smartphone/tablet connected to a 3rd display (Ex: a large screen HDTV).

    The Samsung Orion A9 will be available with 8 and 16 GB moviNAND memory chips or without memory. And this is not all, as a back-illuminated CMOS sensor will be able to shoot in either 5-megapixel or 14.6-megapixel resolution stills. That’s impressive, even for Samsung, accused sometimes of copying devices from other competitors. I think they always draw the line when it comes to their own chips, which are clearly following a unique design. Mass production of the Orion A9 will debut in the first half of 2011. Then we’ll probably see the announcement of the second generation Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets.