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The new info from an Intel Designer about the death of Moore's law presents interesting posibilities for the handheld market, Comments?

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What's Moore's Law?

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every 18 months cpu's will double in power..(name based on Founder of in Intel) We are reaching Theoretical limits now.

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Handsprung et al...Please don't move this one...this is a good question the has a direct bearing on the future of the entire sector, including Handspring...I would love to hear the comments of some of the sharp blades in the forum.

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I don't think it will affect it THAT much. They're going at 16mhz probably using larger scale chips than they are now.

I'm sure we'll reach a limit soon, but PDA processing speed is crawling along compared to the speed of PCs. It will be an issue, just not for a while.