Motorola is giving Palm loyalists a glimpse of high speed RISC processors running PalmOS at the PalmSource conference this week.
Having powered Palm for six years with its Dragonball processor - a cut down, low-power derivative of the 68000 series that powered the original Macintosh, Amiga and Atari micros - Motorola is doing its best not to be tagged as yesterday's platform.
Eighteen months ago Motorola swallowed its pride and licensed the ARM instruction set, and Moto's Ed Valdez told us that the most recent Dragonball MX1 samples clock in at 207Mhz. Which is a stellar number for embedded RISC in the Palm world. A final production figure hasn't been made public yet, but it's likely to give Palm applications a significant performance fillip.
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