Much Riding on Palm’s New OS. In conjunction with the OS change, Palm is going from a 33 MHz Motorolla Dragonball processor to a Texas Instruments ARM chip that will reportedly clock better than 200 MHz. “While the Palm OS 5 operating system — which analysts and applications developers expect to ship in early 2003 — is faster and can handle more robust multimedia applications than the current OS, it doesn’t take advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the Be operating system that Palm purchased last September.” Wired