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To: Paul Engel who wrote (41845)	8/14/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: Ron Mayer	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, StrongARM and something you wrote back in December. Back in December you wrote: Message 2922869 > >Intel's Pentium II (MMX) can do MPEG-2 decoding in software ... >It would appear that Intel is positioning themselves to supply the >CPU-centric set-top box, since some sort of CPU would probably be >required even with a dedicated MPEG-2 decoder such as from CUBE. > Looks like you were exactly right about Intel positioning themselves for CPU-centric set-top boxes. (I do some consulting work for a mpeg chip company). But now it looks like the StrongARM is better suited for these purposes, and that it will be the chip Intel uses to target for that market. A few weeks ago you gave estimates for Celeron pricing: >Celeron...about $50 total - today. >...packaging costs...drop...370 pin PPGA >...move...to a 0.18 micron...silicon cost to about $25 or $30 >...$25 die cost, $10 in PPGA packaging...$35 overall Could you please make this kind of estimate for StrongArm. Earlier people were discussing their StrongARM capable of mpeg2 in software; and someone (you?) were speculating they would move this to the .25 micron fabs when cpu production moved to .18. I imagine it would be quite low if it runs on their "old" "obsolete" .25 micron fabs. If it's low enough that might be an extremely significant change to the settop decoder market currently using dedicated decoder chips from STMicro, LSI, C-Cube, etc. Any guesses what the cost would be, or hints how I could guess the cost myself, would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Ron

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