[SECT]

Sorry if this is a repost, thought some might find this interesting.

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/porta...yer-168144.php
& http://www.itechnews.net/2006/04/18/...nd-generation/
The recent trend of dual core CPUs in laptops is making its way into MP3 players in the form of the Teclast T19. One of the cores, the Telechips TCC 760, is dedicated to audio decoding. The other core, a Wolfson WM8750, is used to convert the digital signal to analog, which is piped to your headphones. The result of having two dedicated chips means better sounding music that’s cleaner and has less noise.

The other specs are:

…a 1.9-inch 260k colors 220 �— 176 pixels TFT screen which is suitable for you to watch MPEG1 Video, RBS Surround and Stone3D sound effects. It has also FM tuner, line-in recording functionality, eBook viewer, voice recording, dictionary and calendar.

The T19 is only available in China for RMB 599 and 699 for the 512 MB and 1G versions.

 

[n1cx]

Maybe I'm wrong but doesn't that make most, if not all, digital audio players dual core?

I believe DAPs that have video playback also have a multimedia chip and an audio chip. Wouldn't that too be considered dual core?

And dual core is supposed to have two microprocessors into one chip. Which I believe is not the case here.

 

[Sparky191]

Its not dual core.

 

[SECT]

*shrug* copy/paste.

Looks cool on paper.

 

[austonia]

please quit spreading this stupid buzz-word when it comes to mp3 players... (no thanks to engadget/gizmodo)

most DAP/PMP devices include several types of processors, but this is nothing like dual-core CPUs on a desktop PC...

 

[Sparky191]

Good auld snake oil...

 

[terrymx]

yeah dual chipsets for decodings. but cpu core itself, as in horsepower. i think it would make more sense to have that feature for higher sampling and video where it need mroe proccesing power. but still i dont even know why you would even need dual core for any of these basic operations, you're not running doom3 out of an mp3 player.

 

[Zorander]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SECT Sorry if this is a repost, thought some might find this interesting. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/porta...yer-168144.php & http://www.itechnews.net/2006/04/18/...nd-generation/ The recent trend of dual core CPUs in laptops is making its way into MP3 players in the form of the Teclast T19. One of the cores, the Telechips TCC 760, is dedicated to audio decoding. The other core, a Wolfson WM8750, is used to convert the digital signal to analog, which is piped to your headphones. The result of having two dedicated chips means better sounding music that’s cleaner and has less noise.

Clearly this is not dual-core. It also annoys me to see how equally misleading the following line is.

 

[jnev]

I think I read somewhere that the iPod is also dual-core...

 

[Veggie_Musician]

So is Karma and I understand Vision:m

 

[bangraman]

So having two completely different chips doing completely different things in a player is dual-core? Wow... So that makes the Logitech Bluetooth Headphones dual-core phones? Buy! Buy!

First Monolith with the "24-bit Delta-Sigma" and now this. Shame manufacturers of indifferent players have to resort to such marketing-speak... and even more shame that there are people who believe it

 

[The_Duke_Of_Eli]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bangraman So having two completely different chips doing completely different things in a player is dual-core? Wow... So that makes the Logitech Bluetooth Headphones dual-core phones? Buy! Buy! First Monolith with the "24-bit Delta-Sigma" and now this. Shame manufacturers of indifferent players have to resort to such marketing-speak... and even more shame that there are people who believe it

Exactly...this isn't new. Dual core implies two cores on one processor. This implies two processores. Not new.

 

[sno1man]

Cool. That means that me and my twin brother qualify as a dual core family......

 

[SECT]

haha, some of you need to write an angry letter to some manufacturers. Apologies for misleading anyone, and cudos to you high blood pressured gurus for setting the tone.

 

[yeeyy]

Please get the fact right, this ain't any dual core MP3 player and there are no dual core MP3 player on earth now.

Telechips TC770 is the DSP chip, Wolfson WM8750 is a Codec, simple as that.

Do yourself a favour and google, you will find all the information there.