Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:10:34 06/18/02
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On June 18, 2002 at 18:02:02, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On June 18, 2002 at 10:11:46, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>I have heard that units based on the Pocket PC will not (cannot) make use of the >>faster speed of the new CPUs until 2004, because of architectural differences in >>the CPU and OS choices made by Microsoft. I.e., the 400 MHz capability requires >>OS modifications that PPC currently lacks. > >Can you elaborate this? How can the OS throttle the chip's performance? >-Tom Did you look at the link from my message? : http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3679 It appears that the X-Scale chip requires special OS features in order to run faster. (I.e., it's not just a faster version of an existing chip.) Probably related to reducing power consumption.
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