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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (84665)1/2/2000 6:14:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson   of 1586769
 
Elmer, I can see it depends on the volume that a particular radio will have. From what I can see some radios will volumes in the millions and the unit cost will be low and the design cost will be spread very thinly. So you get an ARM and a flash core and that will be more than an ASIC that is made in the millions, but less than for a run of 100,000, so the arm and others generalists like it will get some of the market. Remember they can change fast and get to market early. Asics can have flash too, but if they find a hardwired flaw.....trash. ARM and other micros are not likely to have a HW flaw so updates, fixes etc will be easier.

Bill
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