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AMD Moves Closer To Linux PDA

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 29, 2003 @08:15AM from the portable-penguin-power dept.

Ryan writes "Mobilemag is reporting that AMD has advanced the prototype design of their current Linux-based PDA handheld, adding full-screen video capabilities, and completing work on the device's battery charger. The device is based on AMD's 400MHz Alchemy 1100 processor." However, "AMD has yet to find a hardware maker that has committed to bringing the Alchemy-based reference design to market as a commercial product."

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Re:Portable XviD player? by Dielectric · 2003-09-29 08:27 · Score: 4, Interesting

Sure, you might be able to code up an XviD decoder. The Au1100 has an onboard graphics controller, and a pretty fast memory interface which is key. I've seen the MPEG decoding real-time on this processor and it works pretty well. This isn't their normal x86 processor, it's a low-power MIPS32 core.