Wireless MMX added to XScale Tools

[Jonathon Watkins]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/35793.html

The Register reports that Intel is getting ready to announce (and hopefully ship) its next-generation XScale processor, codenamed "Bulverde.

"The part may have failed to warrant a mention during the appropriate Intel Developer Forum keynote last week, but today the chip giant began shipping the software tools needed to write applications and drivers. that will support the new chip."

"Central to the $2999 suite is Intel's C++ Compiler for PCA Processors 1.2, which adds support for Wireless MMX, Bulverde's new multimedia manipulation instructions. Based on the Pentium processor's MMX instructions, Wireless MMX extends the ARM ISA on which XScale CPUs are based."

All signs are that we should be seeing some faster, more efficient new mobile processors soon. Good stuff.

[Jonathon Watkins]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/35793.html

The Register reports that Intel is getting ready to announce (and hopefully ship) its next-generation XScale processor, codenamed "Bulverde.

"The part may have failed to warrant a mention during the appropriate Intel Developer Forum keynote last week, but today the chip giant began shipping the software tools needed to write applications and drivers. that will support the new chip."

"Central to the $2999 suite is Intel's C++ Compiler for PCA Processors 1.2, which adds support for Wireless MMX, Bulverde's new multimedia manipulation instructions. Based on the Pentium processor's MMX instructions, Wireless MMX extends the ARM ISA on which XScale CPUs are based."

All signs are that we should be seeing some faster, more efficient new mobile processors soon. Good stuff.

[c38b2]

$3000? 8O I guess I don't know how much these things typically go for, byt $3000 sounds like a lot for anyone to pay for a C++ compiler...

[arnage2]

i want wireless mmx! could that mean that a windows 98 emu/simulator is theoredically possible?

[dlangton]

I like the

(and hopefully ship)

part. :lol:

[Jonathon Watkins]

Hey, Intel announcing something is a big deal!!!!!

Shipping counts as a bonus these days! :wink:

[egads]

Originally Posted by c38b2

$3000? 8O I guess I don't know how much these things typically go for, byt $3000 sounds like a lot for anyone to pay for a C++ compiler...

$3000 is cheap compaired to some C compilers I've seen. Check out MetroWorks for PowerPC's, GreenHill's for PowerPC, and Keil's 8051 tools.

I've seen single seats running for $12,000 (All the bell's and whistles includes).

Their target is not the hobbiest !!!

[Aerestis]

Yeah... My 3d animation and modeling package cost well over that price, software these days can be sooo expensive. I really wish I could get into this stuff, but I don't really have 3000 dollars handy :lol:

[Duncan]

The Register reports that Intel is getting ready to announce (and hopefully ship) its next-generation XScale processor, codenamed "Bulverde.

Sounds like they are hitting their original deadlines after all - which means we may well still see some Bulverde releases in May...

[Jonathon Watkins]

May, what an interesting date. Why would they need them then? :wink:

[Duncan]

Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins

May, what an interesting date. Why would they need them then? :wink:

Oh, just a date plucked out of thin air... honest...! :wink: