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To: slacker711 who wrote (3591)11/24/1999 8:10:00 PM
From: Randall Knight  Respond to of 13582
 
Ok....I have to ask this question. Are you sure? I would swear that all of my research has pointed to Nokia using TXN DSP's. I've never read anything about ASIC's in conjunction with GSM.

So, if Nokia does use its own ASICs, then perhaps Q is doing a swap deal - CDMA for GSM. That is my hope.

Nokia becomes the king of handset manufacturers for the forseeable future, QCOM is the undisputed gorilla ASIC provider for the world.Seems like a win/win situation.

OR, perhaps the Q can get what they want from someone else? But who else has the world-wide marketing power of Nokia? MOT?



To: slacker711 who wrote (3591)11/24/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: w molloy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13582
 
Slacker - The GSM protocol stack won't be running on the DSP.

DSP's are optimised for fast algorithmic processing, not message and event passing. NOK will have a CP-DSP solution. They may, for example
source the CP core from ARMHY and the DSP core from TXN.

The two cores will be fabricated in a single ASIC.

QCOM MSM chips use an ARMHY CP with an in-house DSP.

w.


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