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To: John Rieman who wrote (25646)	11/24/1997 7:27:00 PM
From: BillyG	of 50808

IBM sells logic cores for settop box chips, announces new MPEG2 decoder.............. sumnet.com From the November 17, 1997 Issue of Electronic News The Antenna <<SNIP>> IBM SAYS THE WORD: CORES--EN has learned that on Tuesday, IBM will grace digital set-top box makers with a library of more than 20 new custom logic cores to build customized single-chip offerings for today's digital set-top box and digital television markets. The company is also announcing an advanced MPEG-2 video decoder chip which offers high-quality audio/video performance and advanced on-screen display capabilities on a single chip, the MPEGCS22. <<SNIP>> MEDIA CENTER MEETS NEVADA ENTERTAINMENT CENTER--Cyrix is using one of the new second-generation DVD drives available from Hitachi in a proposed "Media Center." The media center is described as an information and entertainment appliance affordable and available for all homes. Cyrix will showcase it at Comdex all over Las Vegas this week. "We evaluated several DVD-ROMs, and Hitachi had the best performance as far as 2x speed," said Steve Matson, manager of Cyrix's Conceptual Products group and lead engineer on the project. "Mechanically, it was really robust. On one of the others (DVD-ROMs) we tested, we ordered five units and three were DOA (dead on arrival)," he noted. Mr. Matson declined to name the vendor of the DOA drives. <<SNIP>>

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