TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun showing an updated reference design for a personal digital assistant (PDA) running the Linux operating system to hardware makers, according to a company executive.
The announcement brings the reference design one step closer to availability
as a commercial product.
Based on AMD's 400MHz Alchemy 1100 processor, an early prototype of the PDA reference
design was demonstrated in August by the company at the LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo in San Francisco.
Since then, AMD has advanced the prototype's design with the addition of full-screen
video capabilities and has completed work on the device's battery charger, said
Phil Pompa, vice president of marketing for AMD's Personal Connectivity Solutions
group, in an interview on the sidelines of the Computex exhibition here last week.?
