[Stern @ Oct 4th 2007 6:20PM]

There will probably be devices out way before early 2009 - the community version of the GP2X (unofficially codenamed the Craiginator) will be most likely sporting TIs OMAP3430 - one of the SoCs that will be using this technology. The Craiginator is due to come out in the spring, so we'll be able to see how powerful this technology really is way sooner than '09.

[Sheldon @ Oct 5th 2007 3:55AM]

Er, I'm confused by what you're saying:
The OMAP3430 is Cortex-A8 based. The announcement made by ARM was around an SMP core called Cortex-A9 and from what I can tell of the GP2X is that it is based around a dual ARM9 (which are an entirely different ARM architecture and are not designed as SMP).
Oh and the release schedule of the Cortex-A9 means that test silicon (not destined for consumer devices) is only likely mid to late 2008 so it is incredibly unlikely that there will be any consumer devices with those chips in before 2009.

[Stern @ Oct 6th 2007 4:56PM]

If you look on the page where ARM makes the press release, you'll see a quote from TI saying that the OMAP3430 will be sporting this platform. There is a community version of the GP2X being developed (NOT affiliated with GamePark or GamePark Holdings) that might use the OMAP3430.