A Redwood City start-up that will partner with IBM says it has created powerful new chips so efficient they can deliver smooth high-definition video to portable gadgets such as cell phones.

If it succeeds, the company, backed by semiconductor chip pioneer Gordon Campbell, says cell phone users can say goodbye to choppy, sputtering video images on their handheld screens.

Rapport, founded in 2001, is creating two different "kilocore" general-purpose chips. The first has 256 processors, dubbed cores, on a single chip. That chip is in production now and could be built into power-efficient products later this year, said Rapport Chief Executive Andrew Singer.

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