Qualcomm guns for Intel
TELCO CHIP supremo Qualcomm wants a slice of the portable computing market, so expect handbags at dawn with Chipzilla.
Qualcomm, which made its name through the development of CDMA, and set up many of the next-generation mobile networks, has seen Intel muscle into a market which big Q, given its history, should be dominating, according to the Wall Street Journal
Amongst its collection of telco stuff, Qualcomm has a chip platform called Snapdragon which can power portable computing devices while using very little power and generating little heat. It does not need a fan or heat sink.
The WSJ says that Qualcomm's vice president of marketing, Luis Pineda, wants this under the bonnet of "smart books".
Lack of software is stopping Qualcomm from planting its flag in this market: currently Snapdragon is limited to Linux. But there are indications that Vole might come to the party and port Windows CE to Snapdragon devices. This is crucial if Qualcomm wants to tap the lucrative business market.
If Vole levels the field for Qualcomm then all bets will be off in the smart books sector. Analysts reckon Qualcomm has an advantage over Chipzilla because it is more familiar with the telecommunications technology which is required for mobile 'smart books'. µ
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"currently Snapdragon is limited to Linux. But there are indications that Vole might come to the party and port Windows CE to Snapdragon devices. This is crucial if Qualcomm wants to tap the lucrative business market."
Why the fuck would you say that? Windows CE can't run existing Windows programs, so the whole advantage of running existing software is lost. Windows CE development has no advantage over Linux. I have done both, and prefer Linux. Microsoft has lost it's ability to woo developers in this market and it is them who will make the platform successful.
I thought I'd never see the day that someone on The Inquirer would claim that Microsoft has an advantage over Linux. And it's not even true, unless Inquirer reporters have been lying for a really long time. There's plenty of programs that will run on Linux and only sip power, they're just not advertised. Start porting games to Linux, or standardize the Windows API(hope I said that right, I know that the problem is Windows people writing non-standard code but I'm still not confident with the lingo) and there will be no reason for any sane person to buy Windows ever again.