Monday, June 3, 2002
June Launch for New Pocket PCs based on Intel PXA210 and 250
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 02:12 PM
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?IR=N&ClassID=100&datePublish=2002/05/28&pages=06&seq=37
The mainstream media is still reporting Xscale devices to be released in June, but I'm personally not buying it - I think the Xscale problem is bigger than most believe, and we won't see Xscale devices in the channel in a big way until August/September. Let's hope I'm wrong!
"An array of new handheld computers using Intel’s PXA210 and PXA250 chips and running on Microsoft’s Pocket PC software will hit the market in June. Casio’s first Pocket PC powered by a PXA250 processor is scheduled for launch next month, and Taiwan-based Wistron, which already makes Casio’s Cassiopeia Pocket PC E-200 models, will manufacture the new machines.
Hitachi also will make its debut in the handheld device market next month with its PXA250-based Pocket PCs, with an initial sales target of roughly 10,000 a month. The devices are equipped with wireless data transmission and communications functions and will be sold through value-added retailer channels as opposed to the mass retail market. Taiwan-based Compal Electronics will design and manufacture the devices for Hitachi. Toshiba also expects to introduce its Pocket PCs using PXA250 processors. Currently Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC) makes the company’s Intel StrongARM SA 1110-powered GENIO e550 and e550MD handheld computers that started selling in Japan last August. The Pocket PC e310, a newer version using the same processor, was contracted with Compal and launched this month." Source: Chris Coulter
The mainstream media is still reporting Xscale devices to be released in June, but I'm personally not buying it - I think the Xscale problem is bigger than most believe, and we won't see Xscale devices in the channel in a big way until August/September. Let's hope I'm wrong!
"An array of new handheld computers using Intel’s PXA210 and PXA250 chips and running on Microsoft’s Pocket PC software will hit the market in June. Casio’s first Pocket PC powered by a PXA250 processor is scheduled for launch next month, and Taiwan-based Wistron, which already makes Casio’s Cassiopeia Pocket PC E-200 models, will manufacture the new machines.
Hitachi also will make its debut in the handheld device market next month with its PXA250-based Pocket PCs, with an initial sales target of roughly 10,000 a month. The devices are equipped with wireless data transmission and communications functions and will be sold through value-added retailer channels as opposed to the mass retail market. Taiwan-based Compal Electronics will design and manufacture the devices for Hitachi. Toshiba also expects to introduce its Pocket PCs using PXA250 processors. Currently Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC) makes the company’s Intel StrongARM SA 1110-powered GENIO e550 and e550MD handheld computers that started selling in Japan last August. The Pocket PC e310, a newer version using the same processor, was contracted with Compal and launched this month." Source: Chris Coulter
