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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: roly who wrote (11294)11/17/1997 6:43:00 PM
From: Tech Buyer   of 70976
 
Roly, Here's an EE Times article on HDTV from April this year. Looks like Lucent was using 0.35 micron process for their chips.

Race kicks off to set digital TV in silicon
techweb.cmp.com

Excerpt:

Minimizing memory requirements is a priority for system and silicon vendors alike. George Fang of Mitsubishi Electric's TV Engineering Department (Kyoto, Japan) said that the Lucent/Mitsubishi video decoder will require at least 12 Mbytes of synchronous DRAM. Thom of the U.S. operation disputed that figure, though he would not specify by how much he thought it to be off.

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There is a dormant thread on HDTV for those who are interested:
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