@OP: It's too big for a smartphone, plus any Smartphone or Pocket PC OEM is going to design their own PCB to save a few bucks.
@Sean: Not exactly. I have a Pocket PC with a 624mhz Xscale. The performance is nowhere near a 300mhz x86 cpu, let alone a 600mhz. As for getting 10, your average computing tasks scale horribly to parallel processors. 10 500mhz CPUs do not equal 1 5ghz CPU.
@Blademonkey: I don't know the exact unit you're talking about, but I assume it was a nanoITX board running a VIA CPU and NB. NanoITX is pretty nifty, and at 12cmX12cm with a ~1.2ghz x86 cpu, it has a decent performace/size ratio.
@Ethan: Well... there aren't all that many choices for OSs with GUIs for XScale. Your choices are basically PalmOS, WinCE, or a tiny linux distro like Familiar with Qtopia or GPE as a GUI.
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@OP: It's too big for a smartphone, plus any Smartphone or Pocket PC OEM is going to design their own PCB to save a few bucks.
@Sean: Not exactly. I have a Pocket PC with a 624mhz Xscale. The performance is nowhere near a 300mhz x86 cpu, let alone a 600mhz. As for getting 10, your average computing tasks scale horribly to parallel processors. 10 500mhz CPUs do not equal 1 5ghz CPU.
@Blademonkey: I don't know the exact unit you're talking about, but I assume it was a nanoITX board running a VIA CPU and NB. NanoITX is pretty nifty, and at 12cmX12cm with a ~1.2ghz x86 cpu, it has a decent performace/size ratio.
@Ethan: Well... there aren't all that many choices for OSs with GUIs for XScale. Your choices are basically PalmOS, WinCE, or a tiny linux distro like Familiar with Qtopia or GPE as a GUI.