Om Malik (as if you need to know where to find him) posts on hefty sales of chips for wireless chip manufacturers of both memory and DSP chips, everyone bar Intel, effectively. And the $ value per chip is only going to increase as the requirement for chips in converged "handsets" increases. Multiple radios, not only across today's, tomorrow's and the day after that's mobile and fixed wireless networks but increasingly linked to WiFi as well as having Bluetooth (and UWB?) capabilities.
That's a geometric increase in processing power in handsets whose battery life is improving arithmetically. The challenge will be to build integrated software/hardware systems that are highly energy and form factor efficient without sacrificing processing power. The mathematical abilities that are today housed in Russia and Ukraine are already providing the algorithms (linked to a definition just to remind you of what we are talking about - it's not just mathematics) and in some cases the links to hardware systems that will solve some of these problems.
Reconfigurable computing is probably the answer and if you doubt me read this from Steve Pawlowski an Intel Fellow on what it means to have "one radio that defines multiple radio standards".
Somewhere in this space amongst the plethora of work that is being done in Russia and Ukraine right now is a deal that will be done in 4Q 2005.
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30 March 2005
Wireless Chips - Today and Tomorrow
Om Malik (as if you need to know where to find him) posts on hefty sales of chips for wireless chip manufacturers of both memory and DSP chips, everyone bar Intel, effectively. And the $ value per chip is only going to increase as the requirement for chips in converged "handsets" increases. Multiple radios, not only across today's, tomorrow's and the day after that's mobile and fixed wireless networks but increasingly linked to WiFi as well as having Bluetooth (and UWB?) capabilities.
That's a geometric increase in processing power in handsets whose battery life is improving arithmetically. The challenge will be to build integrated software/hardware systems that are highly energy and form factor efficient without sacrificing processing power. The mathematical abilities that are today housed in Russia and Ukraine are already providing the algorithms (linked to a definition just to remind you of what we are talking about - it's not just mathematics) and in some cases the links to hardware systems that will solve some of these problems.
Reconfigurable computing is probably the answer and if you doubt me read this from Steve Pawlowski an Intel Fellow on what it means to have "one radio that defines multiple radio standards".
Somewhere in this space amongst the plethora of work that is being done in Russia and Ukraine right now is a deal that will be done in 4Q 2005.
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