news.cnet.com — How does it work? Take Apple's iPhone 3G as an example. The phone supports 3G wireless connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Today all that functionality is supported on multiple chips. With the new Sandbridge processor, a company like Apple could program a single chip to handle all four functions. Less chips means cheaper phones.
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Closed AccountNov 11, 2008
So what do you think Apple bought PA-SEMI for ?
mk3kNov 11, 2008
Yea, iPhone is a bad example.
khyberkitsuneNov 11, 2008
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sprashNov 11, 2008
So this is a FPGA chip for phones. What's the big deal? The reason why FPGAs are mainly used for prototyping is that they are slow and consume lots of power. They are even rarely used in desktop computers (maybe some network cards) and definitely not suitable for mobile phones.
jo21Nov 12, 2008
chipset are like 85$ dollars.15% its not much.