Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2001
Motorola goes for handhelds in alliance
with Palm
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has joined with Palm to provide Palm OS licensees with the next generation of DragonBall microprocessors with ARM core-based technology.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has joined with Palm to provide Palm OS licensees with the next generation of DragonBall microprocessors with ARM core-based technology The alliance, part of Palm's new Palm OS Ready Program, benefits the entire community of Palm OS licensees and software developers, and enables manufacturers to design ARM core-based multimedia products to meet consumers' high expectations and active mobile lifestyles
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As the number one microprocessor for handheld computers, Motorola's DragonBall family has been at the forefront of the rapidly growing portable devices market with Palm's products for six years", said Omid Tahernia, vice president and general manager of Motorola's Wireless and Mobile Systems Division.
"Our continued alliance with Palm will take the relationship even further, enabling us to develop and deliver innovative consumer products for the Palm OS market".
The DragonBall MX1, the first ARM core-based product in Motorola's DragonBall family, includes: the first Bluetooth wireless technology-ready applications processor platform; rapid, easy scalability from 68K to ARM cores; and long battery life.
The DragonBall MX1 facilitates the use of data applications, e-mail and the Internet in wireless computing environments, and empowers Palm OS software developers to write programs for a wide range of wireless applications.
The DragonBall MX1 expands Motorola's comprehensive portfolio of wireless embedded solutions and provides customers with "one-stop shopping" for smaller, lighter, lower-cost mobile products.
Motorola has a strong legacy of serving both the cellular industry for nearly 30 years and the PDA market since its inception in 1995.
Motorola is also a licensed architectural partner of ARM technology.
To deliver total solutions to the market, the DragonBall family benefits Motorola's licensing agreement with ARM Holding for use of the ARM920 core technology on the DragonBall MX1; Sony for use of the Memory Stick interface on DragonBall MX1 and Super VZ; and Digianswer A/S for Bluetooth wireless technology on DragonBall MX1.
Motorola is a board member of the Secure Digital Association.
The DragonBall family is capable of supporting industry-leading systems such as the Palm OS platform, Microsoft Windows CE operating system and Pocket PC, Linux operating system, Symbian handhelds and EPOC technology.
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