PocketMatrix

Intel gets around some of the shortcomings of the X-Scale chip, such as a lack of floating-point arithmetic, as well as division, square-root and trigonometric functions with the release of its Graphics Performance Primitives software. This will give PDAs and smartphones the abilities to do more sophisticated 3D rendering for games and other software that makes heavy use of 3D.

The toolkit is available free on Intel's web site. It is initally only for Pocket PC 2002 X-Scale devices. Intel will focus on other platforms as X-Scale acceptance becomes more wide spread. Thanks to Foo Fighter for the link.

Ya, I'm not thinking it's so great anymore. Unless the square root, et al features are any good then someone could write these things just as fast on their own, maybe even faster.

As Digby mentioned above this is really old news. Looks like it's been publicised now to look as if something is being done for X-Scale due to the obvious performance problems. In fact the 3D routines were out in March before anyone had realised that 400Mhz XScale was actually slower than 205Mhz ARM.

I'm so sad as I have cash in hand to get a new device but they are all slower than my old iPaq. With the LOOX having sync problems & the iPaq 39.. being a crazy price looks like I will treat the family instead

LOL Dan!