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Tuesday, March 18, 2003
A Device Called WANDA - Gretchen Hyman, Silicon Valley
Just in time for a predicted surge in the personal digital assistant (PDA) market over the course of 2003, Dallas-based semiconductor Texas Instruments Inc. unveiled a new chipset and concept design for a device that combines three primary networking technologies, among them Wi-Fi Internet capability. TI's newest effort to ramp-up its wireless chipset offerings was announced Monday at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) wireless conference in New Orleans where companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Nokia, Palm, and Microsoft are all vying for top dominion in a tightly cramped market in which converged device technology is all the rage. Code-named "WANDA," TI's tri-wireless PDA is based on the company's Open Multimedia Applications Protocol (OMAP) processor platform and Microsoft Windows-Powered Pocket PC software.
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