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RE: os 6 chip?
This could be used in OS 5, even. The only thing stopping it is time. OS 6 will probably be out by the time this processor is released, not to mention rumors of the 800 MHz X-Scale.
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Thechnology Marches On!!
Really though announcements like this remind me how much the focus of growth in computing has shifted to the mobile computing platforms. Things are going to stay pretty exciting over the next few years.
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Mhz != Performance
I'm disappointed by the opening comment, " Samsung Electronics today announced fastest mobile CPU to date". As I'm sure we're all aware of, core speed certainly doesn't equal performance, and I'm hoping that most people won't be mislead.
Apart from that, this processor doesn't seem to offer anything that XScale, or similar processors, otherwise couldn't. The main benefit it seems is that by integrating common system peripherals and having a built-in NAND flash boot loader the processor may reduce the overall cost of device (that's assuming if this processor is affordable).
RE: Mhz != Performance
Possiblilities
The things that jazz me about this are:
Competition is good. More speed, lower prices, more features.
The camera function built-in.
Samsung is huge volume and can do everything from the chip to the support software (they have their own hardware abstraction layer for both Palm OS and Windows Mobile 2003) to the case design. I am pretty sure they make screens from scratch and they are one of the largest if not the largest memory chip manufacturers in the world.
.13 micron. The smaller a chip the faster AND the less power. I believe .13 is as small as it gets right now.
That support for NAND and Samsung's experience with piggybacking and making memory itself, could mean huge amounts of RAM built-in for next to no expense in $$, size, battery life, or complexity.
We could get a ton of new features: voice recognition, optical scanning of pages of text (through that camera that has built-in support) coverted to text right on the PPC, new levels of compression for video and audio that would allow us to save more on less flash space, and......drum roll......HIGHER RESOLLUTION SCREENS without slowdown!
OS 6 and Windows Magneto (whatever it is called it better have higher resollution support) may both have a new champion in the CPU wars of Winter 2003/2004.
How does this power use compare to current CPUs?
Of course, the CPU isn't the major power-sucker, AFAIK that's the screen, but it would certainly help.
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533MHz ARM Now?
I hope Consumer-Level Handhelds will be at least 400MHz fast in the future....because some of these consumer-level Palm Powered Handhelds definitely need some much-needed speed boost here...
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