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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (84566)1/1/2000 3:49:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1573142
 
Paul, CDMA functionality will always be integrated into silicon, not a GP CPU in cell phones. Why? When you are making 100's of thousands of units which require a fixed function like CDMA demodulation, its always cheaper and uses less power to use custom silicon. Even a general purpose DSP chip is too power hungry.

Now, for non-DSP functions like email and phone web browsing, there are plenty of 100+ MIPS CPU's out there like Strong Arm (Intel) and MIPS clones.

Petz
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