Renesas Technology today announced a new spin of its SH7786, a dual-core, 32-bit processor that targets high-performance multimedia applications such as automotive navigation, game consoles, digital-home electronics, and industrial systems.
The new device, fabricated on a 65-nm process (prior versions were 90-nm parts) churns out 960 MIPS from each of its two SH-4A 32-bit RISC cores at 533 MHz. The device also features a DDR3-SDRAM interface, which operates at 1.5V and enables data transfers at up to 4.27-Gbytes/sec. The earlier 90-nm devices had a DDR2-SDRAM interface operating at 1.8V.
