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While not a lot is known at this point, in April Palm CEO Carl Yankowski said that, in the "near future", at least some of Palm's handhelds will be powered by processors based on the ARM chips. It isn't unreasonable to assume that Palm will be looking at XScale chips very closely in the near future.
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What's in the Future?
Handheld? Laptop?
I'm all for it!
a. the ARM chip will run legacy Palm OS software without requiring any modifications.
b. it won't go in the way of Intel's x86 marketing strategy whereby to take advantage of new instruction sets (e.g. the Pentium MMX, Pentium III) you're forced to upgrade to the new Palm with ARM technology.
c. battery consumption will be less or equal to the current crop of Motorola Dragonball EZ processors. Who knows, we Palm IIIc users can finally upgrade to the Palm Vc...(or whatever) :-)
Color is the way to go, like it or not (maybe having MP3 support is going too far). The Palm IIIc's successors will benefit from the ARM chip, I guess.
Limits to usefulness
Fast, color handhelds are & will be increasingly useful but will remain constrained by their size.
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