(Un)fortunately, they keep wanting to make these devices cheaper; I expect
the same very slow evolution that made deep frame buffers take much longer
than I expected in 1988, as a result (about 8 years longer than I expected,
before 8 bit frame buffers became unusual!). Once burned, three times
shy....
The other item to remember is that power consumption also mitigates
against lots of transistors. Batteries are pretty brutal this way.
I'll bet you a dinner it is at least two generations before we have both
FPU's and any significant 3d rendering assist in these devices.
Understand, this is a bet I'd be very happy to lose :-).
- Jim
> Sender: [email protected]
> From: Allen Akin <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:36:19 -0800
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [forum] Some perspective from the cheap seats...
> -----
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> | And some of us, who work on handhelds, can't presume we even have
> | much floating point (no FPU), much less any hardware assist for 3D,
> | or even for 2D.
>
> OpenGL ES supports fixed-point, and I'm told software renderers for it
> exist.
>
> As far as hardware assist for 3D, we're probably looking at the last
> generation of PDAs, cell phones, and similar devices without it.
>
> Allen
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Jim Gettys
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HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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