Monday, September 29, 2003
AMD Updates Alchemy PDA Prototype
Posted by Janak Parekh in "THE COMPETITION" @ 05:00 PM
AMD is still working at getting a crack in the PDA market, despite lukewarm reception of their Alchemy processor. They've updated their PDA prototype to, among other things, do full-motion video with no artifacts.
"Based on AMD's 400-MHz Alchemy 1100 processor, an early prototype of the PDA reference design was demonstrated in August by the company at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Since then, AMD has advanced the prototype's design with the addition of full-screen video capabilities and has completed work on the device's battery charger, said Phil Pompa, vice president of marketing for AMD's Personal Connectivity Solutions group, in an interview on the sidelines of the Computex exhibition in Taipei last week. 'It's certainly at the point where we can go hand to this to an OEM,' Pompa said, adding that AMD is currently working on improvements to the design's power management capabilities."
What I find interesting is that of all the Linux PDAs coming on the market, only the Sharp units seem to have generated considerable interest. It'll be interesting to see how this market evolves in comparison to more-established handheld OSes, like Windows CE.
"Based on AMD's 400-MHz Alchemy 1100 processor, an early prototype of the PDA reference design was demonstrated in August by the company at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Since then, AMD has advanced the prototype's design with the addition of full-screen video capabilities and has completed work on the device's battery charger, said Phil Pompa, vice president of marketing for AMD's Personal Connectivity Solutions group, in an interview on the sidelines of the Computex exhibition in Taipei last week. 'It's certainly at the point where we can go hand to this to an OEM,' Pompa said, adding that AMD is currently working on improvements to the design's power management capabilities."
What I find interesting is that of all the Linux PDAs coming on the market, only the Sharp units seem to have generated considerable interest. It'll be interesting to see how this market evolves in comparison to more-established handheld OSes, like Windows CE.
