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Hewlett-Packard’s releases new and attractive big-screen handheld pack that has Intel’s XScale DNA. The long awaited iPaq 210 that features a 4.0-inch, 640×480 (VGA) resolution screen. It features both compact flash and a SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output) slot, SDIO cards, more advance than typical SD memory cards, Bluetooth adapter, Wi-Fi Adapter, Global Positioning System (GPS), television tuner, and a number of other devices. The iPaq 210 which is rebranded internationally as the 2111, 212 and 214. iPaq 210 comes with a Marvell PXA310 processor running at 642MHZ, 128MB memory and 256MB flash ROM.

Eventhough Intel sold the business that made XScale processor to Marvell. Marvell is still making processors based on Intel Technologies. PXA310 is made on a 90-nanometer process, includes Intel SpeedStep Technology, Intel Wireless Trusted Module encryption technology and Intel Wireless MMX 2 co-processor.

Marvell states that PXA3xx processor family “is the third generation of applications processors based on Intel’s XScale technology”. Marvell also make PXA320 that has a clock speed of 800 MHZ.