(keitai-l) Re: [offtopic-cpu] Who is responsible for imode in AT&T and KPN?

There are already Intel Baseband chips (with ARM cores) in J-phone Kenwood
and a few others (Intel bought DSP-Communications which is a baseband chip
design house a year or so ago)...  

But regarding a seperate applications processor seperate from the
communications baseband, please see the following press release..

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/in092500a.htm

Currently all the phones in Japan have a single baseband which is also
responsible, through the ARM core, for all the applications (i-mode, JAVA,
etc....) ...  

The StrongArm RISC processor mentioned in the press release is the same
processor that runs the Compaq iPAQ, so I leave it up to you to think about
the possible increase in capablilty Intel will be providing to NEC.

There is some stuff happening in Europe too, but I am less familar with it..
I think it surrounds PDA's with GSM/GPRS modems.

Thats about all I can say, that I do not think it will be very very long.

Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Lowery [mailto:chris@onegoodwindow.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:28 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: [offtopic-cpu] Who is responsible for imode in AT&T
and KPN?


Hey Brian forgive me but,

When can I expect to see an Intel-branded CPU in a keitai,
or a big color WAPphone? ARM doesn't count.

Or does it?

Looking forward to a little Sacramento durability in my
next major phone purchase,

Chris

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