Intel to unleash PC power on mobile devices

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 11 Sep 2002 at 12:55

MMX architecture to rock mobile devices

Intel has announced new technologies at its Developer Forum to allow the power of desktop software apps to run on wireless mobile devices.

Intel Wireless MMX technology is a set of multimedia instructions taken largely from the architecture used by Intel embedded in its current processor line-up. However, this can now be used in its power-saving XScale microarchitecture, used in its processors for small mobile devices, such as the 400Mhz PXA250 chip.

This will enable software developers to more easily port desktop applications to mobile devices based around future XScale processors that use the Wireless MMX technology.

Software development kits are available in beta today and include debuggers, a compiler and simulators. Intel Wireless MMX technology is supported in WindowsCE.Net (PocketPC), Palm OS v5, SymbianOS and versions of Linux.

Intel also announced the first memory subsystem for the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture with new versions of Persistent Storage Manager (Intel PSM) and Flash Data Integrator (Intel FDI). These allow applications to run directly out of Flash memory, increasing power efficiency, performance and helping to avoid data loss.

For more information, visit Intel. For information on the Intel Developer Conference, visit .