Thursday, October 17, 2002
Intel's 1 GB phone
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 02:56 PM
http://www.theregus.com/content/3/26676.html
Interesting article - it's becoming quickly apparent that the amount of storage that future devices will have far outstrips the average ability of someone to fill them. Unless we start thinking outside the box that is - I wonder if with 1 GB on my phone I'd even need a local hard drive for my critical data? Sure, you can fill up 1 GB quickly with music and video, but that's plenty of space for documents. If Bluetooth offered more bandwidth, I could imagine keeping my important documents on my phone and working off it at my desktop PC like it was a local hard drive. Then imagine sitting down at a public terminal and doing the same thing - your data is always with you.
"Intel yesterday announced what it described to us as "a Flash sandwich" - the first 1.8V flash memory allowing four 256 MB modules to be integrated with an XScale to create 1GB of code and data in a phone. That's a lot of memory for a phone. Such phones won't be appearing until later next year, it's safe to assume. Intel has yet to announce a Tier1 design win for XScale, but the StrataFlash package is already sampling with volume production promised for next year."
UPDATE: I was led astray...it's 1 Gigabit, not 1 Gigabyte. 1 Gigabit is 0.125 Gigabytes, or 125 MB. Bah! Boring! :evil:
Interesting article - it's becoming quickly apparent that the amount of storage that future devices will have far outstrips the average ability of someone to fill them. Unless we start thinking outside the box that is - I wonder if with 1 GB on my phone I'd even need a local hard drive for my critical data? Sure, you can fill up 1 GB quickly with music and video, but that's plenty of space for documents. If Bluetooth offered more bandwidth, I could imagine keeping my important documents on my phone and working off it at my desktop PC like it was a local hard drive. Then imagine sitting down at a public terminal and doing the same thing - your data is always with you.
"Intel yesterday announced what it described to us as "a Flash sandwich" - the first 1.8V flash memory allowing four 256 MB modules to be integrated with an XScale to create 1GB of code and data in a phone. That's a lot of memory for a phone. Such phones won't be appearing until later next year, it's safe to assume. Intel has yet to announce a Tier1 design win for XScale, but the StrataFlash package is already sampling with volume production promised for next year."
UPDATE: I was led astray...it's 1 Gigabit, not 1 Gigabyte. 1 Gigabit is 0.125 Gigabytes, or 125 MB. Bah! Boring! :evil:
