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• Matias - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link

  "reduced standby power by 3 orders of magnitude. I asked Broadcom to give me a realistic estimate of power consumption - BCM4330 in full Rx mode consumes around 68mA, BCM4334 consumes 36mA at the same voltage"
  
  Sorry to be picky, but 3 orders of magnitude should be 10^3 or 1.000 times lower. So from 68mA it would be 0.068mA or 6.8uA... which is not the case.

• A5 - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link

  Standby != Full RX mode.
  
  I'd imagine the standby power isn't something they want to reveal yet.

• Brian Klug - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link

  This is exactly the case, I got numbers for full receive mode (which has the frontend lit up), but was also told that standby is even lower.
  
  -Brian

• quadrivial - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link

  Reducing power consumption (especially as much as they claim) is good, but I wouldn't design a device using this chip. Put simply, everything about VideoCore is behind a NDA making it harder to work with and optimize for than the competitors.

• Brian Klug - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link

  They announced their A9 based SoCs, but this story isn't about those (still working on it) but rather the WLAN combo chips and 802.11ac products shown today.
  
  -Brian