Intel Previews Upcoming XScale Processors

Ed Hardy · 09-18-2003, 01:08 PM

The next generation of XScale processors is being designed to allow handhelds and mobile phones to have longer battery lives, greater multimedia capabilities, and take better pictures.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/In...g_XScale_Chips

helf · 09-18-2003, 01:44 PM

wowzer, these are gonna be pretty nice.

ogreboy · 09-19-2003, 01:16 PM

Hah, great.... MMX for handhelds. We know how much this revolutionized the desktop.

NightShade737 · 09-19-2003, 02:18 PM

Bah, where are 3DNow!, SSE, 3DNow! Pro and SSE2

NS

Qwertys · 09-20-2003, 04:16 PM

ogreboy: it did. theres not a single application now that does not require MMX. sans linux.

ogreboy · 09-20-2003, 04:58 PM

The hooplah over MMX that Intel was spouting at the time made it sound like the second coming of the PC. I was more trying to point fun at how silly that seems in retrospect, considering the first things out (in terms of games) were Unreal and Pod. Both of which gained little improvement in speed or graphics.

Of course, MMX instructions have become more mainstream, especially since it's been, what, 5 years? But it most definately wasn't the Second Coming it was made out to be. At least this time, with the XScale chips, they're not making as huge a deal about it.

Then again, anything that helps make PocketPCs faster and more responsive has to be good.