Thanks to all the different teardowns that have occurred over the last 48+ hours, most people now think that the processor inside the Apple iPhone is in fact a Samsung S3C6400 running at a whopping 667MHz. If this is true, then this would one of the fastest processors ever seen for a consumer handheld device.

For those curious, the Samsung S3C6400 processor is based on the ARM ARM1176JZF processor design. Thanks to GearLog – here are some additional tidbits on various components:

• “ARM1176JZF-S based CPU Subsystem with Java acceleration Engine
• One 8-bit ITU 601/656 Camera Interface of up to 4M pixel for scaled and 16M pixel for un-scaled resolution – pity the iPhone stayed at 2MP
• Multi Format CODEC (MFC) provides encoding and decoding of MPEG-4/H.263/H.264 up to 30fps@SD, and decoding of VC1 video up to 30fps@SD
• 2D Graphics Acceleration with BitBlt and Rotation
• AC-97 audio codec interface and PCM serial audio interface
• 1/2/4/8 bpp Palletized or 16/24bpp Non-Palletized Color-TFT support up to 1024×1024
• High Speed-MMC/SD card support
• Mobile DDR Memory Interface with x16 or x32 data bus (266Mbps/pin DDR) “

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