User:Pinchies

Thanks for checking out my page! While I may have been registered for over a decade, I still consider myself a WP beginner, so I do appreciate feedback and guidance.

In particular, I have an interest in mobile technologies, and how hardware and software developments have enabled new tech.

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A selection of Wikipedia articles that I created or contributed substantially to:
 * Laser Metal Deposition - my own area of expertise.
 * Lactofuchsin Mount - I was quite excited when I first realised something I learned at university wasn't yet on wikipedia. It is now!
 * Bike or Die! - one of my all-time favorite games, for Palm OS.
 * Imageon - The early mobile graphics processors by ATI, that eventually evolved into the Adreno (an anagram of Radeon) GPU's found in modern smartphones.
 * Palm P850 - A low-cost Palm OS smartphone from China that was practically unknown in the western world!
 * ST-NXP Wireless A joint-venture with only a brief existence, as Philips transitioned into NXP, merged with STMicro, before merging again with Ericsson to form ST-Ericsson.
 * Sony Handheld Engine - the first-ever ARM9 SoC, developed by Sony in 2003 using 180nm lithography, for the Sony CLIÉ PDA line. This processor was highly integrated, with state-of-the-art advanced power efficiency.
 * Nexperia (processor) - The Philips Nexperia PNX4008 was the first 90nm ARM9 SoC CPU, and offering hardware 3D graphics integrated it paved the way for powerful smartphone processors as we know them today. They were used in bleeding edge Sony Ericsson smartphones of the time.