Intel announces 'Wireless-Internet-On-A-Chip' for cell phones

Intel Corporation announced a new cellular processor that uses advanced "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" technology. The highly
integrated microchip is the first to combine the key components of today's cellular phones and
handheld computers onto a single piece of silicon - promising to bring advanced functionality, longer battery life and more innovative phone
designs to mainstream phones.

Called the Intel PXA800F cellular processor, it is a key component of the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel
PCA), Intel's development blueprint for designing wireless handheld communication devices that combine
voice communications and Internet access capabilities. 

In creating unique "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" technology, Intel engineers overcame significant technical hurdles associated
with combining the different design and manufacturing technologies for processing, flash memory
and communications functions. The Intel PXA800F cellular processor is built using a single process to place all key components onto one chip using
the industry's leading .13-micron silicon manufacturing technology. 

"Intel's ability to provide communications, computing and memory functions in a single chip is unmatched in the industry and
promises to deliver outstanding performance, greater versatility and a richer experience to cell
phone users worldwide," says Hans Geyer, Intel VP and GM of its PCA Components Group. "As the industry transitions from voice-only phones to
advanced devices that combine voice and data, the ability to effectively and efficiently combine advanced processing, memory
and communications technologies will be required to drive the next-generation of cell phones." 

The Intel PXA800F cellular processor features a high-performance, low-power processor running at 312 MHz based on the
Intel XScale technology with four megabytes of integrated Intel On-Chip Flash memory and 512 kilobytes (KB) of
SRAM for industry leading application performance. In addition, the Intel PXA800F cellular processor includes a 104 MHz signal
processor using the  Intel® MicroSignal architecture with 512 KB of integrated Intel On-Chip
Flash memory and 64 KB of SRAM, resulting in a complete system on a single chip for advanced GSM/GPRS cellular networks. 

The increasing availability of mobile content and the emergence of worldwide wireless data standards are driving the
development of a new generation of data-enabled wireless devices for businesses and consumers. To assist phone
manufacturers with the rapid development and deployment of wireless devices, applications and services, Intel has worked
with communications industry leaders including TTPCom, Esmertec, Elektrobit, ADI, RF Micro Devices,
Dialog and Jamdat to offer a complete communications system in support of the Intel PXA800F cellular processor. 

The Intel PXA800F cellular processor is sampling today with production volumes expected in the third quarter of 2003.
Products using the new processors will be available later this year, or early next year. The Intel
PXA800F cellular processor has a suggested list price of $35 in 10,000 unit quantities. 

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