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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157932)	2/6/2002 8:04:54 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

wbmw, your questions are not too hard to answer. First, AMD IS late to the pda market. I was wondering why it took them so long. As of the shedding their previous products I think they had 0% of the PDA market with those so why not sell them? As far as copying Intel, I don't see it that way. Ok, so Intel got a PDA cpu first, does that mean that AMD should stay off that market just to satisfy Paul? If AMD is to survive they have to sell cpus in all available markets otherwise Intel can subsidize the cpus in markets where Amd competes with revenus from cpus sold in markets where Amd does not compete. c

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157932)	2/6/2002 8:44:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"If AMD were serious about competing in the PDA market, why not go for an ARM core, since the industry is rapidly moving in that direction?" There is more to the market than PDAs. Even now, 2.5G and 3G phones is a bigger market. There is very little reason to standardize on a particular architecture like ARM or MIPS right now, other factors are more important. The low-powered handheld market is just beginning, it's a long way from being an established market, much less the point of anointing winners and trashing losers. I personally like ARMs for a number of reasons, but many of them border on personal taste rather than any real technical reasons. For example, I like the conditional execution of any instruction, and the ability to do a barrel shift at the same time is a bonus... And the embedded market in general is bracing for an explosion. Before too much longer there is going to be an enormous amount of CPU power hiding in walls and equipment, all networked together. XScale and Alchemy class devices are going to have a unit volume that exceeds desktop processors in another few more years.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157932)	2/6/2002 10:59:33 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: If AMD were serious about competing in the PDA market, why not go for an ARM core Here's one take. AMD is going for the high end, leaving Intel and TI to fight it out for commodity business: Strauss said a MIPS core would have a place. "For those applications that need more performance, many companies prefer the MIPS cores because that implementation is just a little bit cleaner than the ARM," he said. Ruiz said AMD will target PDAs, Web tablets, and portable and wired gateways and Internet access devices, which he called "one of our industry's great growth opportunities." http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG20020206S0041