Intel Unveils Next-Generation XScale Processors

Ed Hardy · 04-12-2004, 09:59 AM

Intel has taken the wraps off its long-awaited "Bulverde" series of processors for handhelds and smart phones.

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

polarbearucla · 04-12-2004, 03:23 PM

Has intel included their own wifi radio in the new chips?

Ed Hardy · 04-12-2004, 04:33 PM

No form of wireless networking is built into these chips. However, they have been designed to make adding the additional hardware necessary as easy as possible.

ktdan1 · 04-12-2004, 05:03 PM

I am pleasently surprised, a 600 mhz chip with better battery life. The PDA manufacturer who deploys a 600mhz unit with daul expasions slots and a VGA screen first will be the big winner. I wonder who that will be?

Don't get me wrong, I am assuming the unit will have some king of WiFi , Blue Tooth or Phone connection included, and 128 meg of ram should be a base at this point.

I wonder what can be done in the Over Clocking area!!!

Can we say 950mhz or 1ghz!!!!!!!

neuron · 04-12-2004, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by ktdan1

Can we say 950mhz or 1ghz!!!!!!!

As intel people told us before they can mass produce 1g chips two years ago, but the heat and battary turn it down.

Overclocking this chips to 1g will suffer the same problem definitely.

I guess Intel choose to gave up the wifi chips buildin because of the Europe and China new Wireless stardard. AMD told to every region that they support any stardard which may hurt Intel chips sale in some regions.

robrecht · 04-12-2004, 09:26 PM

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Originally posted by polarbearucla
Has intel included their own wifi radio in the new chips?

Was this an earlier rumor about these chips? I think Justin from PROPortable was also saying this about the 520 MHz chip to be included in the ASUS 730.

Ed Hardy · 04-13-2004, 09:01 AM

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Originally posted by robrecht
Was this an earlier rumor about these chips? I think Justin from PROPortable was also saying this about the 520 MHz chip to be included in the ASUS 730.

What the earlier rumor said, and perhaps what Justin is saying, is that the higher-speed versions of these chips have been designed specifically to power Wi-Fi enabled handhelds. Perhaps we're arguing semantics here, but that isn't the same thing as having Wi-Fi built into the processor. None of these have a Wi-Fi transceiver, antenna, etc. on the chip.

In addition, so far I've heard nothing official from Intel to back the earlier rumors up. The release certainly puts no emphasis on Wi-Fi; instead it points out that the PXA270 processors can be used in devices with all types of wireless networking, from GSM/GPRS to Bluetooth. This doesn't mean the earlier rumors aren't true, I'm just saying they haven't been confirmed by anything from Intel.

k2stingray · 04-14-2004, 10:49 PM

All of the info in the article sounds like great news except one thing that sound absolutely HORRID.

Did no one else read the DRM to a "single device" sentence?

In the old days when the rulers got to greedy they built guillotines and started chopping off people's head in public. RIAA has been going crazy prosecuting those making illegal copies and I agree with this if the copies are not for personal use.

However, when it's gets the point that I have to buy a separate copy of a CD to use on my PPC, my laptop and my home stereo then it's time for a FULL SCALE REVOLT in the US.

We need a group of leaders to plan full scale boycotts of single DRM devices and media. This is nothing but pure unadulteraged GREED gone out of control! It's time to fight back and fight hard people.