"Through joint collaboration, the VoiceTIMES alliance aims to eliminate complexities for the consumer and solutions integrator, while providing future generations of standard compliant speech-enabled mobile products."

For e.Digital its all about solutions for the integrator.

With regard to your Intel post and their "First IA System on Chip for Consumer Electronics" Intel Architecture Everywhere....you put up a post directly after it with regard to Transmeta vs. Intel.

Transmeta offer software solutions to the 86 processor platforms....soft core.

e.Digital offers a software solution to a hardware problem when integrating memory and moving data having high level utility, while yet, emulating RAM with a flash environment.

I guess your question should be...

Is their a benefit in bring the processor ideas of Transmeta and the memory data bit stream management of e.Digital together?

Why not....

New SoC product from Intel, the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 is a highly integrated solution that pairs a powerful IA processor core with leading-edge multi-stream video decoding and processing hardware. The processor core is Pentium M processor (90nm) working at 800MHz and featuring 256KB L2 Cache. The graphics core is Graphics Media Accelerator 500 that accelerates VC1/WM9, H.264 and MPEG2 video and supports Shader Model 3. The CPU also adds a 3-channel 800 MHz DDR2 memory controller, dedicated multi-channel dual audio DSPs, a powerful 3-D graphics engine enabling advanced UIs and EPGs, and support for multiple peripherals, including USB 2.0 and PCI Express.

I've already noted the dual scheme ability of e.Digital...many times

doni