New Sirf chip

[+T F T C]

From Engadget

 

If you've bought a GPS unit in the past year or two there are decent odds it's based on the SiRFstar III chipset, which has been about as good as it gets since it arrived on the scene a few years ago. Now there's a new chip on the block, SiRFprima, which could have GPS aficionados kicking those SiRFstar III units to the curb. The unit boasts "industry leading" GPS performance, and is the first of its ilk to be able to work with GPS and Galileo signals simultaneously. InstantFixII -- which promises 5 second start times -- is built in as well, along with 3D acceleration for the fancy new maps hitting the scenes, and the capability to work with external devices like touch screens, DVD players, video cameras and so forth. While no one feature is revolutionary, the fact that SiRFprima will be wrapping up all these features into a cute little package for GPS manufacturers to slap into their units without a worry -- which should start happening in the second quarter of this year -- is surely cause for celebration.

[xxgg]

Oh boy...

 

When will this chip become available to the GPS manufacturers?

 

I guess whatever that is released after Colorado will utilize this chip?

 

Maybe they'll upgrade Colorado with this chip to make it a what Colorado should have been ?

 

 

Oh god GARMIN... release the damned SiRFInstantFixII now please !!!

Edited February 10, 2008 by xxgg

[Rhialto]

Maybe that's what will be in the nüvi phone? See this video : http://www.plugeek.com/telephonie/garmin-n...ielle-1037.html

[+JohnnyVegas]

Oh boy...

 

When will this chip become available to the GPS manufacturers?

 

I guess whatever that is released after Colorado will utilize this chip?

 

Maybe they'll upgrade Colorado with this chip to make it a what Colorado should have been ?

 

 

Oh god GARMIN... release the damned SiRFInstantFixII now please !!!

there is not much of a chance that will happen, garmin would have to re engineer the colorado to use the new chip, If they use the new sirf chip in a gps it would be in a new GPS model.

 

Colorado should have been ?

 

Maybe Garmin and Magellan should both rethink their new GPSrs. Both the Colorado and the Triton were released to soon.

[+GOT GPS?]

Maybe Garmin and Magellan should both rethink their new GPSrs. Both the Colorado and the Triton were released to soon.

That is true, with these high tech devices, being more advanced than the old style GPS units, these GPS units need more time to fix the hardware and software issues. The more advanced a GPS gets, the longer they need to work out all the issues from the devices.

 

This reminds me of the new Airbus A380 Super Jumbo double decker airliner, they had a ton of issues, and were billons of dollars over budget and 2 years behind schedule in developement with the big monster airliner. Just Google A380 Troubles to see.

 

The older GPS units were so much simpler and easier to work with.

[+TrailGators]

Maybe that's what will be in the nüvi phone? See this video : http://www.plugeek.com/telephonie/garmin-n...ielle-1037.html

That brings Phone-a-Friend to a whole new level!

[+TrailGators]

From Engadget

 

If you've bought a GPS unit in the past year or two there are decent odds it's based on the SiRFstar III chipset, which has been about as good as it gets since it arrived on the scene a few years ago. Now there's a new chip on the block, SiRFprima, which could have GPS aficionados kicking those SiRFstar III units to the curb. The unit boasts "industry leading" GPS performance, and is the first of its ilk to be able to work with GPS and Galileo signals simultaneously. InstantFixII -- which promises 5 second start times -- is built in as well, along with 3D acceleration for the fancy new maps hitting the scenes, and the capability to work with external devices like touch screens, DVD players, video cameras and so forth. While no one feature is revolutionary, the fact that SiRFprima will be wrapping up all these features into a cute little package for GPS manufacturers to slap into their units without a worry -- which should start happening in the second quarter of this year -- is surely cause for celebration.

Looks very cool! Thanks for the heads up!

[Source_GPS]

From Engadget

 

If you've bought a GPS unit in the past year or two there are decent odds it's based on the SiRFstar III chipset, which has been about as good as it gets since it arrived on the scene a few years ago. Now there's a new chip on the block, SiRFprima, which could have GPS aficionados kicking those SiRFstar III units to the curb. The unit boasts "industry leading" GPS performance, and is the first of its ilk to be able to work with GPS and Galileo signals simultaneously. InstantFixII -- which promises 5 second start times -- is built in as well, along with 3D acceleration for the fancy new maps hitting the scenes, and the capability to work with external devices like touch screens, DVD players, video cameras and so forth. While no one feature is revolutionary, the fact that SiRFprima will be wrapping up all these features into a cute little package for GPS manufacturers to slap into their units without a worry -- which should start happening in the second quarter of this year -- is surely cause for celebration.

Looks very cool! Thanks for the heads up!

 

Perhaps a Colorado Hcx??

[+lonelocust]

 

This reminds me of the new Airbus A380 Super Jumbo double decker airliner, they had a ton of issues, and were billons of dollars over budget and 2 years behind schedule in developement with the big monster airliner. Just Google A380 Troubles to see.

 

 

Yes, but which GPSr chipset does the Airbus A380 use?

 

If it's going to crash, we can at least hope they've got a good fix on their location...

[+julianh]

 

This reminds me of the new Airbus A380 Super Jumbo double decker airliner, they had a ton of issues, and were billons of dollars over budget and 2 years behind schedule in developement with the big monster airliner. Just Google A380 Troubles to see.

 

 

Yes, but which GPSr chipset does the Airbus A380 use?

 

If it's going to crash, we can at least hope they've got a good fix on their location...

I sincerely hope the A380 doesn't use any flavour of Microsoft Windows Vista for its "fly-by-wire" control systems.

 

When trying to take off the first time, it will just tell you that there are no available drivers for the Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines. After many hours of hunting around on the Internet, you manage to find some unsupported drivers, which gets you going; then, you can just imagine the panic in the cockpit when you are on final approach to LAX, and the main console tells you that it has just downloaded some new drivers , and a reboot will be necessary to continue.

 

("Blue screen of death" takes on a whole new meaning in this context!)

Edited February 11, 2008 by julianh

[SporkSports]

You may laugh now, but Airbus really DID screw up the software on their first fly by wire jet. I forget which model, but they programmed the engine control wrong and ground radar incorrectly and the result was they had an aircraft fly right into the forest. There was a whole special about it on Discovery or something a few years ago; it was part of a government cover up in France since they didn't want to admit they totally botched the engine control, destroyed evidence, and so on. They say it was 100% pilot error and still have the pilot in jail to this day, if I remember correctly.