Arguably the most important element of any Personal Navigation Device is the GPS receiver. You might already be familiar with market-leader SiRF, and their ground breaking StarIII 20-channel indoor GPS receiver, but you might not have heard of San Jose based Global Locate, whose Hammerhead GPS receiver was recently chosen to replace SiRF's GPS receiver on the TomTom ONE (TomTom's best selling GPS). I sat down with Global Locate's execs at CES, and got the skinny on the deal:
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Fletch,
I understand the Global Locate GPS receiver is almost as good as the SiRF III, a bit slower for TTFF and a bit less sensitive but a price for so much less, this is a no brainer for TomTom and any lower end PND units.
Competition is good
It is highly unlikely that any viable chip can be as small as 3.5 by 3.7 nanometers - considering silicon interatomic size of over 2 angstrom it will only consist of few thousand silicon atoms - which seems to be not doable with current technology.