MediaQ Joins Palm OS Ready Program
Almost lost in the excitement over the completion of Palm OS 5 yesterday was the announcement that MediaQ has joined the Palm OS Ready Program. MediaQ makes multimedia-oriented processors. Its processors aren't designed to run the entire handheld. Instead, the main processor can hand off graphics intensive tasks to a MediaQ chip, which will handle them more quickly and with less power use than the main processor.
Sony already uses graphic controller chips made by MediaQ in its Clié line, which greatly improve its performance. Now that MediaQ has joined the Palm OS Ready Program, we can expect to see its processors on handhelds from other licensees.
"MediaQ's products, combined with the power, flexibility, and ease of use of the Palm OS platform, will support licensee innovations," said Christy Wyatt, senior director of Worldwide Licensing at PalmSource. "Palm Powered products continue to push the design envelope with leading multimedia capabilities. Our Palm OS Ready partners play an important role in helping licensees bring their products to market more quickly in order to continue to offer customers the very latest technology."
About the Palm OS Ready Program
The Palm OS Ready Program allows chip manufacturers to licence portions of the Palm OS and use them to create a Device Abstraction Layers (DAL) for their own processors. This is sort of a translation layer between the hardware and the operating system. These DALs allow the Palm OS licensees to use chips from whichever manufacturer suits them without having to write a DAL of their own, reducing costs and development time.
Top processor manufacturers are already part of the the Program, including Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments.
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Futur MediaQ CPU
It's an 160-200 Mhz ARM920 CPU (similar to the one inside the motorola chip) + USB + flash card I/O + the LCD controller already used in the sony clie NR70 series + a realtime MPEG4 encoder/decoder + a java accelerator.
One its greatest feature is a very LOW power consumption.
RE: Futur MediaQ CPU
no more J2ME......
Java Accelerator
This core enhancement is available to any ARM licensee, so it could show up in chips from Intel, TI, or Motorola too.
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RE: Futur MediaQ CPU
MediaQ already in Palm m130
RE: MediaQ already in Palm m130
RE: MediaQ already in Palm m130
About time we get decent gfx
RE: About time we get decent gfx
RE: About time we get decent gfx
Alan
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Read your manuals before you ask!!
RE: About time we get decent gfx
RE: About time we get decent gfx
When I bought this machine, I spent around HKD$4500, and I believed that this would be a very very very powerful Palm machine....
However, ....nobody will buy new N710C/N760C/N610C now, right??
I am totally disappointed...~
What I should do is, to wait, may be buy NR70V today, it is just HKD$3300 here....
For its sudden improve in the power of Palm Powered Machine, I DO advise no one to buy it now...
For the one who want to buy a Palm Powered Machine, just wait until next year....
.............
ATI MPEG4 REAL TIME HARDWARE DECODE
+ CMOS CAMERA
+ OS5.5
+ ARM 400MHz CPU
.................
For Palm, I just suggest to WAIT...
PS, i have Palm IIIc, Palm III, Palm Vx, in the past, i couldn't imagine how fast is Palm growing >.<
"no eye to see"
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