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To: Paul Engel who wrote (48853)	7/24/2001 10:46:46 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

"Palm to announce steps to ARM transition" This is news, because...? Palm has a tough job ahead of them, the current PalmOS and the Dragonball is pretty tightly inter-twined, they will likely have to run an emulator to get it to get those legacy apps to work right. The memory management is particularly Draggonball-centric. While on the surface it looks as if Covalis is a shoe-in for Palms and Palm-alikes, Intel has been tossing around prices of $13-15 each in quantity and Motorola has suggested a price of a little more than $20, unless Intel has a companion chip with Palm-type peripherals (Memory Stick, MMC, Consumer IR, etc) instead of PocketPC-like peripherals (PCMCIA, Compact Flash, IRDa), the Motorola system will be smaller, cheaper and likely draw less power once the extra circuitry is added to Covalis. But I am glad you realize that ARM is a superior architecture to anything Intel has ever turned out. And to think that it all started as a gate array add on to an Apple II clone... Hmm, maybe AMD should buy Linkup Systems to get into this market. Their 9200 sure looks good and you cannot beat their power consumption.