Comments on: Motorola Licenses ARM's Chips

Motorola has licensed UK microchip developer ARM's 32-bit processor architecture which will allow them to make and sell ARM processors. Chips based on the ARM architecture are already in far more devices than ones designed by Motorola and this seems to be an admission that ARM chips are at least as good as Motorola's own designs, if not better. Palm has already stated that at some point in the future they will be stop using Motorola's Dragonball chips and switch to ARM processors. Motorola may have decided to switch in order to remain Palm's supplier.

 Not if, but when

Dan Urquhart @ 12/8/2000 10:24:47 PM #

The question about ARM chips in Palms is not if we need more power, but when. Anything less than a smooth transition with at least partial backwards compatibility would be a nightmare.