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Analog & Digital Chips On The Same Silicon
jukal writes "Forbes.com writes: "Intel Corp. Monday announced plans to put some functions of analog and digital chips onto the same piece of silicon, its latest push into the communications semiconductor industry.", "which will be available early in 2004, could lead to a single-chip hand-held device that offers cellular phone, wireless-data-network and other connection services.", so, I quess this will be a competitor to the Texas Instruments' OMAP chip?"
Does this mean mobile phones will get smaller? I have enough problems with the nokia 8310 being to small, any smaller and it starts getting unusable. I'm not old though, or technology challenged, just a average 24 year old who finds 8310s to small!
On the other hand, if theres less space taken by the electronics then you can have a bigger battery and more talk time.
I guess even more features are being packed into ever smaller spaces.... is nothing new?
The 6581 SID is still being used in synth devices today... check out www.sidstation.com for some really cool hardware, and there's a band that prominantly uses the SID in their music... Machinae Supremacy. (www.machinaesupremacy.com)
Very cool.
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