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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (158017)	2/7/2002 9:31:38 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

andreas, has anyone given any thought to the fact that AMD may want to use alchemy's expertise to get x86 in the PDA world? Msft would love that. C

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (158017)	2/7/2002 10:33:01 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

" If AMD wants to compete there, they have to go for the niches or convince Microsoft to support MIPS as well. " You have to remember that PocketPC200x is WinCE3.0, and WInCE3.0 and 4.0 support more than StrongArm. The reason why Microsoft drew the line at StrongArm has more to do with it being the only one that has enough CPU power to provide the "experience" that Microsoft wanted. For that reason, I don't think that PocketPC2002 is available for the 133MHz StrongArm, although there is no code difference. Here are the processors supported with my version of Platform Builder for WinCE4.0 PROCESSOR_INTEL_386 PROCESSOR_INTEL_486 PROCESSOR_INTEL_PENTIUM PROCESSOR_INTEL_PENTIUMII PROCESSOR_MIPS_R4000 PROCESSOR_HITACHI_SH3 PROCESSOR_HITACHI_SH4 PROCESSOR_STRONGARM PROCESSOR_ARM720 PROCESSOR_MIPS_R5000 PROCESSOR_SHx_SH3DSP Distribution of applications isn't a problem either, you can target multiple processors and the installer works with ActiveSync to install the correct binary. No, the problem has more to do with pricing, the prices I have seen for the current Alchemy chips are a lot more than the pricing I have seen for StrongArm, and Xscale is even cheaper than that...