The Mobile World Congress has been a treasure trove of concepts and brilliant digital ideas, but this one probably tops them all — the Armada 618 chipset. Specially designed for mobile devices and perhaps netbooks, it boasts the potential to let users play graphic-heavy 3D games and play 1080p-quality videos — all at the same time!

The Armada 618 chipset is an ARM-based graphic processor developed by Marvell, and will be available to developers before the year ends. Right now, it’s already capable of running four 2000×2000-pixel displays at the same time. The 3D engine is already strong enough to render 45 million triangles per second — putting it up there with full-sized gaming systems while keeping a low energy usage profile.

It’ll be interesting to see which smartphones will sport this chipset when it comes out, as well as whether or not having this kind of power on netbooks will create a new “ultraportable gaming” niche in the digital industry. When it does, though, it’ll almost certainly put the heat on the current netbook standard, the Intel Atom chipset.

Via: Mobile Gear