[NEC Old News] Yea Right!
Yep! it's old.. As if NEC could ever be Old News..
But I thought it appropiate to put a Commerical Break in the show. :))) Amati NEC:>)
Besides I think good clips look better set apart.
""TI has never been one of the companies that has really been looked at for set- top-box configurations," said Rick Sizemore, president of Total Research in Multimedia, Scottsdale, Ariz. "But when you're looking for a DSP, you go to TI," he said. "This could effectively get TI into sockets where they wouldn't have normally been considered."
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"In the future, there aren't going to be DSP vendors," said Aaron Fisher, general manager of wireless products for Lucent. "There are going to be system enablers. Those who have DSP as a piece of their pie are going to be successful, but only if they can also do the analog circuitry, RF circuitry, and in some cases, the algorithms and software to enable complete system-on-a-chip solutions."
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"I think the days of having just a stand-alone DSP are long gone," said Dave McLean, manager of MWave marketing and support with IBM
Microelectronics in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
"In the devices we ship today, only about 15% of the silicon area is DSP," he said. "The other 85% is integrated communications and multimedia peripherals, depending on what application and platform it is serving."
Definitions are changing. "What we call a DSP now is not what a DSP will look like in the year 2000," said Forward Concepts' Strauss. "There will be a continuing evolution. It was once said that gallium arsenide was going to swamp silicon, and there were people out there who were going to wipe out DSPs. Well, silicon got better, and DSPs are getting better too.
"The DSP of the future is going to have a lot more functionality," he said. "It's going to have a lot more mips, and probably multiple engines in the same chip," he said.
DSP suppliers must be flexible and able to respond quickly to customer demands for specialized products, said Zvi Soha, vice president and general manager for Motorola's Wireless Division in Austin, Texas. (The new unit incorporates the company's former DSP division.)
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DSPs will become, perhaps, the most important building block on the "super chips" of the near future that will integrate DSPs, microprocessors, A/D converters, D/A converters, customer-supplied logic, and memory, said Jim Voddie, research and development director for wireless and multimedia at Lucent Technologies.
"Many of the chips will be 50% or more memory. DSP will be the
cornerstone for a very complex chip," Voddie said.
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