LinuxDevices: Single-Chip LSI will Target Broadband-Enabled Linux Mobile Phones

“Hitachi semiconductor spinoff Renesas and NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s
largest telecommunications company, will jointly develop a
single-chip LSI (large-scale integration) for mobile phones. The
chip, expected in late 2006, will help save power in
next-generation mobile phones–probably based on Linux–that will
access the Internet at broadband speeds.

“Today, mobile phones typically use dual processors, one of
which runs a simple real-time operating system such as VRTX and
handles radio and signal processing, while the other runs the
higher-level operating system, user interface, and
applications…”

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