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Even at 664 mHz, my Dell Axim 51V takes about 20X the time to
load CNN
as
the 1 gHz ulv Centrino in my subnotebook.
and the Axim is Xscale based running Windows Mobile
with probably only 64 Mb ram versus your
notebook and still trying to support VGA.
No wonder it sucks.
You bought one of these?
ScottW
What is your point?
That your whole comment was irrelevant to the longevity of the ARM
both as a base band processor and an application processor.
Will there be Vistas in PDAs someday? Maybe. Will there be an Arm
processor providing baseband support as well? Probably.
Will buffoons still be trying to surf the web with PDAs'? Most
certainly.
Gratuitous insult, Scott. You've been spending too much time in
elevators.
Childish hypocrisy noted.
ScottW
The ARM will be around, as is the 7400 quad-NAND gate. But it will occupy
a seriously diminished role in embedded architecture. Your failure to
perceive that is indicative of a dwarfish mind, even if you are of normal
stature.
Top that, buddy! It's OT, while exemplifying sarcasm at it's finest 
LOL. Are you really proud? Is this a highlight for you?
Yup, that's a hoot. you just claimed the nand gate is losing its role in
embedded architecture..... that's good Bob.
I wonder what Intel has on the drawing board to replace it?
BTW, ARM is still developing and adding processors to a growing
library of designs. Does this really resemble a 6502 Bob?
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM926EJ-S.html
I had a processor applications class in college using a single
board computer called the AIM 6502.
I don't recall having any DSP or floating processors to
utilize back then.
Don't you think referring to their growing portfolio of
processors as "The ARM" is a bit silly?
ScottW
Scott, I'm going to push the sarcasm aside for a moment. In this business,
nothing lasts forever, where the modern meaning of "forever" is about five
years. On the other hand, it takes a long time for things to go away
entirely. But there is a point I want to make, which is not whether ARM will
be around in embedded systems, but about the future of handheld computing.
Intel sold this part of their business, XScale, because they believe that in
four years, they will have a general purpose, complex-instruction CPU that
runs on the power budget of ARM based WM. When that happens, Windows Mobile
as an entity running on ARM will become completely obsolete. And ARM will no
longer have that application.
Of course, there will always be applications for simple cores running in
embedded systems. So ARM will probably be around for a while. But we must
remember at the same time that ARM does not have specific features for DSP
or other high data rate apps. ARM works with other special purpose cores to
accomplish this. Because ARM is not itself a specialized core, future
obsolesence is a possibility.