A lot of "new" chips are being hilighted in the handheld computer/PDA
field lately. Chips by NEC, Hitachi and Philips are in the currently
available Windows CE units. The two recently announced Newtons
(MP-2000 and eMate300) use ARM 710 and Digital/ARM "StrongARM 110"
chips. All these chip technologies have been in use for some time
really, but for the desktop computerists, you might not be familiar
with them. The following two sites are fairly technical and won't mean
much to most consumers, but if you're a developer, you might want to
check out these technologies. So far I've only found two sites. The
Hitachi URL came from a posting to the Usenet newsgroups by
Daniel Gentleman without my asking. This is not really surprising
since a lot of people will be interested in finding out this information.
Advanced RISC Machines
SH-3: SH7702/7708 Product Brief
[1997/01/06]
Aug. 27, 1997, PR Newswire reports that Franklin Electronic
Publishers, Inc. has announced its ES-1 proprietary 8/24 bit pipeline
RISC CPU. Using 8 bit instruction opcodes with 24 bit general purpose
registers allows use of high level compilers, backward compatibility
with existing card applications and very low cost. A 24 bit address
buss allows up to 16MB data addressing. Backward compatibility was
maintained by emulation of a 65C02 CPU used in first generation Bookman
products. Franklin is seeking licensing opportunities for the new CPU.
http://www.franklin.com/
[1997/09/02]