This is S100's very last post on the SI boards.
Message 17251655
A private post to me re 1st quarter conference call. He included some information about a seminar (BREW ?) or some event sponsored by QUALCOMM. Said he didn't want to post to the board. I don't think he would mind that I am now?
His knowledge and enthusiasm where contagious.
I miss him. :..(
M
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:25 PM ET
To: moenmac
From: S100
Correction, Dr. Jacobs said ONE year, not ten.
Sound system was bad, lots of echos, I had a LOT of trouble hearing the whole time, that question had to be repeated but it was ten years, I am quite sure.
BTW here are some things I don't want to post.
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he only techie I have ever found maning the booths was someone named
Paul B at the brew booth. Talked to him a LONG time, talked about how
brew makes calls into the msm, I thought only to the cpu but it also makes
calls into the dsps since that is were things like the media player live.
With brew you do not use any of the normal c functions, just the ones
(hundreds) that are part of brew.
Everyone is interested, better than java in many ways. Lots of intrest due to
potential size of market, many from the dot com area looking at new fields,
etc. Sun big java pusher, but with no interest in phones.
Asked about nokia, he could not say anything, but sorta "nudge, nudge, wink,
wink" like the monty python sketch,I feel sure nokia is looking at it.
Seems to be really taking off. Lot of work rewriting the functions to make the
proper calls into a different chipset.
Not sure what could be posted when two techies talk, but the cpu in the
phone has 5 mips to spare when not making a call. When making a call, it
drops to 1 mip for brew. DSP has 24 (total) mips, he did not know if that was
each or both, since there are 2 dsps. Probably for both.
There several other tech types attending that talked to him as well as the
clueless. ATT, cingular have a long expensive path.
People at the asic dislay know NOTHING but the lables on the chip display.
No idea on the size of the silicon, 6050 must be 40 by 40 or so vice the 100
by 100 for most msms. 1700 per 12 inch wafer gives an idea.
QCOM sells a phone supporting encryption to the gov. 3000 in first contract,
10,000 in current contract, they knew the contract details but I did not think
to ask the price.
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from the "four minute gap" at the B of A break out session.
I do not want to post but will PM, others can transcribe and post. Quick and dirty cut.
BA guy
So October for that zero IF thing to really start ramping and hitting?
Don
I think that is when phones will be made, the earliest one. We will be ready by summer when the chipset ramps, probably just slightly ahead. Because it is an architecture conversion.
BA guy
It's a big deal.
Don
It's a big deal.
BA guy
You have got parts back already and you are looking at them?
Don
Oh, we have already done field tests. We have the teams in Korea and Japan now.
BA guy
Taking a look at it?
Don
Helping the customers getting ready.
BA guy
Ya
Don
We have the teams working with the customers getting ready, phones like our thin phone done already. We have field tested it already
BA guy
Umm
Good deal.
Don
In fact, the guy that did the phone, Don Peterson ? did it Used to do QCP phones. He said it was the easiest phone design he had ever done.
BA guy
Comes out pretty easy. Now you did say the second half of 02,
Lot back and forth about looking in notes and emails, good natured jesting about some promised date.
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This phone was shown in the slides, lots of empty space now. |
