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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (69399)	1/29/2002 3:06:24 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Too bad that's the two leaders in the handheld market (Palm and Microsoft) are standardizing on ARM." The handheld market is a lot bigger than PDAs. Other factors than code compatabilty are important. If a compelling solution can be developed, then it stands an excellent chance. Besides, WinCE 4.0 supports MIPS, they just haven't compiled the Pocket PC apps, utilities and GUI for it. That is something that is easy to change. "And Intel has equally impressive power dissipation numbers with their new (not yet released) ARM-based XScale technology that will scale up to 1 GHz." Two factors. One, Cotulla (the XScale handheld chip) won't run at 1GHz, 400MHz is it's target. The power consumption goes very high when you get above 400MHz. In addition, Alchemy is fabless, TSMC's process is not optimized for either power or performance. If there is more control over the process, XScale might not be as impressive...