Marvell’s chips might not be that famous when everyone’s talking about Snapdragon and the Cortex A8, but they’ve decided to blow ‘em away this time. Their new processor is considered to be power, so powerful that it puts the Hummingbird to shame. The new Armada 628 application processor delivers three cores, two of which crank along at 1.5GHz. That’s about 200 million triangles per second, compared to the Hummingbird’s 90 million.

The 628 is capable of 1080p 3D video and graphics (meaning it can sustain two simultaneous 1080p streams, one for each eye) and pledges to have an “ultra” low power profile: more than 10 hours of 1080p video or 140 hours of music playback are on offer. If that’s not enough, it’s also the first mobile SOC to include USB 3.0 support, adding yet another speed crown to its bulging resume. Now, all we can do is drool and wait. And oh yeah, I’m sure it won’t run Crysis, if you really want to know.

SOURCE via Engadget