The problem that the PC has had, even a notebook, is that it's too large to carry with you. |
This is a very important first step--a radio that is capable of handling both standards in all of those frequency bands. |
Very few pieces of technology cross the line and become a cultural icon. |
We are now at the point where there is a clear coalescing around the 2.3 to 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 5 GHz bands. It looks likely that the planet is going to be able to be covered using those frequency bands. |
We believe the Basic PC segment has the potential to expand our markets and bring us new users. |
We expect so see substantial progress by the end of the year. |
We felt for some time that handheld devices are going to require some compute performance. That is why we were going into this space. |
We have to be fanatical about power consumption. It's not just about longer battery life, but when you look at rising oil prices, it becomes more and more important. |
We need to have devices that boot very, very rapidly the same way that we get off the plane and immediately get a cell phone signal. |
We thought for some time that handhelds would require computer processing. |
You are going to see a tremendous wave of experimentation in the next year and a half, two years. |
You may not need this speed all the time in a device like this, but it just shows there is enormous headroom there. For video or running multiple applications, you will need more power and want to run it in an efficient manner. We're looking at four generations of this processor and, just like the PC, you'll see us providing more performance over time in the same price envelope. |