1. Introduction

A growing majority of PDAs are based on Intel's XScale processor architecture. HP has decided to buck this trend with its iPAQ H1940, based on the S3C2410 processor, brought to you by Samsung.

For those of us who aren't semiconductor chip heads, Samsung is a major processor player. While the company has no presence in the CPU market, Samsung is a backward integrated player that, in addition to DRAM memory, makes and designs an array of ASICs, microcontrollers and other processors for third-party OEMs, such as HP. The firm as also makes processors and other electronic components for its sizeable cell phones, notebook and monitor OEM business. For HP's iPAQ H1940, Samsung has supplied a 16/32 bit RISC processor, designed for mobile applications.