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Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola's consumer business and mobile devices division, has confirmed his outfit will be releasing a 2GHz smartphone by Christmas.
Talking to the Executives Club of Chicago, Jha said that he believed that most corporate workstations would be replaced by smartphones in two years.
As proof he said that Motorola will have a 2GHz 'superphone' ready for the holidays.
The phone will be Android and will have a gyroscope, and a Nvidia Tegra-based graphics processor with full Flash 10.1 hardware acceleration. It is not clear how Motorola will get the chip to 2GHz.
Qualcomm announced faster Snapdragon processors that would reach 1.5GHz at Coputex last week. It might be something from Nvidia which has been telling the world+dog that its Tegra 2 is pretty fast.
It does make sense that we're headed that way though. With cloud computing and online collaborative software that is heavy on server-side compute, lite on client-side compute, anything that's "good enough" could be used. When that happens, you begin looking at equipment costs and energy costs. This is an area where non-x86 (proprietary) architecture fails us, and where ARM-based solutions are big winners (as ARM CPUs cost less than $1 each, compared to $30+ for smallest / slowest Intel Atom).