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To: MileHigh who wrote (1647)	9/18/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: John Inine	Read Replies (2) of 13582

I'm not a chip design engineer, but here is my 2cents. I think it may happen someday, but right now the functions of a full fledged Pentium class CPU and CDMA ASIC are sufficiently different that it makes sense to keep them separate. Because: (IMHO) Right now the architecture of these devices is uncertain. Usually this high level of integration happens when the product is more mature. The chip size would be pretty big, high cost. It would probably be a major IPR headache. Lots of software issues, who's instruction set runs what, are there conflicts. I think we'll see more computing power added to the CDMA ASIC before we see the CDMA functions move to the CPU. I hope this helps, and your question is not dumb.

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