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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TechieGuy-alt who wrote (1468)	8/31/2000 11:31:14 AM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

I am surprised that supporting multiple instruction set is not a must-be in some of your mind. In my mind, it will certainly be this way. At least 32 bit MIPS and ARM will be supported going forward. Why? Both are synthisizable cores. There will be a lot of tightly integrated ASICs for the PDA market. Dragonball is not going to cut it. This has nothing to do with what others are doing. This is simply what everyone has to do, and besides Palm, almost everyone is already doing it. What does this mean to software developers if all it takes is a recompile? It means entering new markets that only certain chips can address at nearly no cost to R&D. Khan