Comments on: TI Announces New, Faster OMAP Processors

The press release didn't really go into the clock speeds... However I'm sure they are burried in some TI tech documents somewhere... I'll see what I can find out.

Great, your the best Ryan! :) :)

Roman Pedan
Palm V/Vx
Will get a Palm OS 5 handheld

One of the TI docs mentioned an ARM926 at 204 MHz, plus new Java acceleration, plus the DSP. Per MHz, the TI ARM9 seems faster for many things than the Intel XScale.

Note that the OMAP 1611 has a dedicated WLAN (801.11g) IO port; and the OMAP 1612 has 32 MB of stacked DDR SDRAM included in the package.

thanks

There's another typo - you should run a spell check.

"The new chips boost accelarated multimedia performance"

"Accelerated" is correct, unless that's some new swizzled term.

Pathetic when the majority of the first comments are not about the story, but the typing.

Ho Hum.

Ick

Oh my god, one letter is wrong. Woop dee doo, let's go ape on everyone.

Come on give em a break = ). Dun think its an easy job actually finding out and posting all this....

xolstis

Are there any OS5 devices using the Dragonball MXL yet?

xolstis

The Garmin iQue 3600 is the first Palm OS device using the Motorola Dragonball MXL processor. I don't know of any other announcements of licensees using the MX1 or MXL yet.

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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com

My question is this: can a Tungsten T be upgraded with the new OMAP?

Matt A.

Not likely, IMHO. The release states the new processors to be software-compatible, the packaging, pin-outs etc. are probably different. Even if they were HW compatible, you still would need to unsolder the original chip and solder the new one - not an easy and trivial task since they are BGA chips.

But this is interesting news. Probably means that we will see Palms using the new processors somewhere around 1-2Q 2004 .

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pauleyc

Why should they dump TI? The OMAP chips consume less power than the Intel XScale solutions, and the integrated DSP allows the system designers a lot more flexibility than the XScale extensions to the ARM5 architecture. What advantage would XScale give Palm OS devices? In some (but not all) tests, the 144MHz OMAP 1510 in the TT has performed better than the NX70V's 200Mhz XScale due to better memory cache performance. Yes, a lot of companies have chosen Intel's chip. However, that doesn't mean its the only valid solution.

I think Palm SG will choose the chips that provide the best combination of power usage, capabilities, and price, and I'm glad the Palm OS platform can be scaled across the board from the Dragonball MXL, to the OMAP chips, to Intel's XScale chips, allowing a whole garden of devices all optimized for their market segments.

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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com

Good on ya Ben dats the way to go!

-the harbinger-

That's Open Multimedia Applications Protocol.

Tony Cheung

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With great power comes great responsiblity.

Thanks, I would have never guessed!! :-)

I am also looking forward to it.

Here's what Palm has posted on its website last month,

http://www.palm.com/support/tungstent/real.html

Cheers,
Tony Cheung

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With great power comes great responsiblity.

jeez.. Do you not look at software sites? you CAN play mp3's on your tungsten. well.. ogg/vorbig ,mp2 and wav's ... I've tried the realplayer beta.. it sucks..I hope the final release is much better or a 3rd party comes otu with a real mp3 player. I hate realplayer..

aeroplayer supports ogg/vorbis and mp2 - http://palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=46149

this one does the same thing basically - http://palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=45900

what are you talking about? theres already cdma enabled palm phones.