Motorola, Inc introduced the MPC8220i 32-bit embedded microprocessor, a system-on-chip (SoC) with the broadest range of imaging applications specific functionality in the industry.

The MPC8220i is said to help OEMs serving the 100-million-unit per year market for printers, multifunction peripherals, digital copiers, and related products with increased processing power and reduced system development and deployment costs, while reducing product development cycle times.

It integrates an extensive combination of on-chip I/O enabling connectivity functions needed for intelligent network and computer-attached solutions without the need for discrete components or custom-designed ASICs. In addition, the industry standard bus interfaces on the MPC8220i provide a high degree of flexibility enabling system designers to easily add functionality such as disk drives, scanner interfaces, or special data processing units.

The MPC8220i offers advanced integration of the super scalar PowerPC architecture and imaging-specific IP for increased image processing performance. A PowerPC-based 603e core integrated with the MPC8220i's unique PF300 image coprocessor accelerates processing of both color and monochrome images. For printers and copiers, the resulting increased performance provides higher page rates, especially when operating on large raster-images such as digital photographs, scanned images, and graphic intensive Web pages.

The MPC8220i samples will be available to printer and imaging OEMs in the third quarter 2003. Production is scheduled for the end of fourth quarter 2003. Suggested unit list price in 10,000-piece quantities for the MPC8220i is US$24.99.

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