Google updates Project Ara with custom-made processor

Google updates Project 

The team behind Google's standard smartphone Project Ara has simply declared that the third iteration of Ara are going to be obtaining a replacement tailored processor. Project Ara is an endeavor from Google's ATAP business to style and build a standard smartphone that may permit users to customize and update functions and parts as they see appropriate - rather like you are doing along with your computer.

The ATAP team has declared its partnership with Chinese chip maker Rockchip in making the new SoC for Project Ara, which is able to replace the TX Instruments OMAP 4660 processors employed in earlier prototypes. Taking under consideration the standard system of Ara, the new processor can go along with a native, general UniPro interface associate degreed is specifically designed to be ready to perform as an freelance module while not the necessity for a bridge chip.

"We read this Rockchip processor as a trailblazer for our vision of a standard design wherever the processor may be a node on a network with one, universal interface - free from additionally serving because the network hub for all of the mobile device's peripherals," head of Project Ara at Google ATAP, Paul Eremenko, explained.


Along with saying the new chip, Eremenko discovered a delay in producing devices for people who won units at the Google I/O earlier this year. a retardant in plating the boards with associate degree incorrect material is that the cause behind the schedule hiccup. Shipments of the reworked hardware ar currently expected to begin among future few weeks. Google can "adjust prize challenge timelines accordingly" because it determines ship dates.

Rockchip's coming SoC is predicted to be demoed within the third style spiral, the team expressed, with prototypes anticipated in early 2015. With the quantity of progress we have seen on Ara within the past few months we tend to hope to visualize business versions of the device sooner instead of later, despite it still being an extended means from being finished. Regardless, we tend to hope that you just relish looking at this standard smartphone progress the maximum amount as we tend to do.