Its pretty self serving, for Chessbase to highlight thier new program (Pocket Fritz 4), to have won a tournament, but for those that care, I thought I’d pass it on.
Just shows you how far pocket chess has come. Article didn’t mention if any other chess program actually entered the tournament: Chessbase made sure the reader didn’t miss the fact that its program ran on a pocket PC and not some 8 core monster computer…
…but conspiciously never mentioned if in fact any other chess engine was actually registered into the tournament. 
Oh well. I don’t have a pocket PC, so not really worried about it.
Think it said the performance of Pocket Fritz 4 was well over 2900.
Hard to say what its actual performance is though. Will have to wait until its available for play on one of the Chess Engine Rating sites that run games for statistical purposes to get a real yard stick for the engine.
In any event, engine-vs-engine games (for rating/statstical purposes), is more accurate than engine-vs-humans. Its little suprise to me that a Pocket PC can play so well now.
For that matter, I wonder exactly how powerful a Pocket PC is nowadays. They’re certainly getting more and more powerful, even if they do little more than what they could do a few years ago. I think Intel Atom processors are slated to eventually get into cell phones. [Note: not in the near future that I’m aware of.]
Just the normal progress of technology though.
By the time a 1 core Atom gets into a cell phone, Intel would prolly be shipping 4 core versions for netbooks. I think 28nm technology is just about mainstream now. Although CPU’s are only starting to get to the 32nm technology. (Memory chips are traditionally shrunk before CPU due to the more simplified designs.)