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Computing and Communication: A Personal View

Wearables

"... It will be possible to put a 100+ MIPS CPU and a 0.5 GFLOP DSP in a $200 Nintendo Game Boy within 2 years, for less than $25 bucks of Si cost. With this kind of cheap, available cycle time, how hard would it be to add a communications cartridge/dongle into a game slot? ..."

-- John Novitsky of MicroModule Systems, and of Microprocessor Report[5]

Who are the competitors?

Ericsson, Lucent, Siemens, ... or Nintendo


[5] From Wearables mailing list Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:22:17 -0700.