Intel wins gong from ARC

YOU WOULDN'T really expect Chipzilla to win the best ' Configurable Soc Design' award but it has. The prize will be presented at Configcon today in California.

The company giving away the award is Arc International which specialises in configurable media subsystems and CPU/DSP processors.

No surprises for guessing that Arc's technology is actually at the heart of Intel's design. Wouldn't be a winner otherwise, would it?
But the really interesting bit is that "the design that is for a wireless PHY architecture which will enable any mobile internet device to connect to any network."

Any to any? This might be Intelspeak for any kind of wireless as long as its Wi-fi based but just possibly might be true.

The first fruit of this design is a WiFi/Wimax/DVB-H test chip which is expected to sample this month. DVB-H is, of course, a cellular not an IEEE standard.

The design is reputedly "flexibility to satisfy multiple network connectivity requirements, while fitting within the power and area constraints of a battery powered device." Coo.

So if you happen to be at Conigcon, you could try asking Intel's Jeffrey Hoffman about it. µ

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