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To: combjelly who wrote (48860)	7/24/2001 11:10:47 AM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

OT: > 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) FWIW, Compact Flash is a Palm-type peripheral. My Visor Prism is playing the Final Fantasy trailer from that media type as I write this message. All Palms by Handera (nee TRG) have built-in support for CompactFlash. In fact, currently, Compact Flash has about the same PalmOS support as MMC and is has a heck of a lot more support than Memory Stick. PCMCIA is perhaps another story. The Handspring Springboard port is sort of a subset of the PCMCIA spec, after a fashion. There is a PCMCIA adaptor coming out for the Palm m5xx series, and I do not think that Palm would be above allowing for PCMCIA support in their chips. I would like to be instructed: What is the difference between Consumer IR and IRDa? Would it be difficult for Palm to switch over from one to the other? Hmmm. Interesting. So Palms in the future may very well use Intel processors and AMD Flash. -JC

To: combjelly who wrote (48860)	7/24/2001 1:05:49 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "This is news, because...? " Because Intel is poised to become the ,major supplier of CPUs to the hand held market - Palm, Compaq, NEC, Toshiba, etc. Yet another market dominated by AMD's hated nemesis. More sales for Intel. More profit for Intel. So Intel can keep the pressure on AMD's CPU pricing !!! And that is why this is NEWS.

To: combjelly who wrote (48860)	7/24/2001 5:41:29 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

An emulator would be no problem, as the StrongARM chips runs about 60x faster than the dragonball, so that emulation is likely to be faster than running native on the dragonball. Xscale would be 300x faster (assuming a linear increase in performance between StrongARM and Xscale based on MHz alone). This was a move that Palm should have made 1+ years ago. Their product is looking kind of stale compared to PocketPC devices. Although Intel is unlikely to win all the designs on the Palm front, I think if they have similar success tot he PocketPC environment, this should result in a good source of new sales.