TI Lands OMAP in a Pocket PC.

An anonymous reader writes: "TI has officially invaded Intel's territory, having landed its OMAP chip in HP's Jornada 928. TI also landed a SmartPhone reference design agreement with Microsoft, but so did Intel. See the article, and a picture of the unit at Forbes.com."

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Anything that challenges Intel's processor hegemony in emergent platform markets is fine with me. Not because I hate Intel, but because tying the future of any industry's hardware to a single vendor is just asking for trouble. Monopoly or not, excessive dependence on a single architecture smacks of too many eggs in one basket, which ends up giving the suppliers greater control than the customers over the capabilities and cost of the units. Any biologist can tell you that host diversity goes a long way toward stopping epidemics that threaten to wipe out the whole species.

Perhaps the fabrication of these PDA chips will be a good toehold for the next Intel of the chip industry, since it's too hard to break into the current desktop market with the complexity of those chips.