Most recent Palm OS handhelds(low-end Zires and a few high-end Clies excluded) run on Intel XSCALE processors. Now, Intel has announced plans to sell the XSCALE division to Marvell – good for Intel and Marvell, but do Palm OS users need to worry about anything?
If you ask me, not really. The only difference that we will see eventually is that our processors will no longer be called Intel XSCALE, but rather Marvell XSCALE. This probably will have an impact on Palm’s marketing department(anyone can still remember the stickers that they put on the T3s saying Intel processor??) and maybe on the place where a very popular Palm OS hacker downloads his CPU datasheets, but not much else.
There won’t even be any stock problems, as Intel continues to produce the processors while Marvell starts to arrange capacities of their own. So, much dust about very little…
What do you think?
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