Will anyone want Sun's multimedia chip?
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 18, 1999, 4:00 a.m. PT
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<<A new processor architecture presented today by Sun could enhance the way video and audio are delivered to the home, but, unfortunately for the company, not many people may need it.
The MAJC chip architecture, outlined by Sun Microsystems at the Hot Chips conference, will be the cornerstone of the company's ambition to build a "media" processor--an embedded chip fine-tuned for video, audio, computer graphics, and other multimedia. Media processors will be used in television set-top boxes, digital TVs, and game consoles....>>
The reviewer sees it as just another media chip and fails to see how it helps Sun to fulfill its strategy of expanding its networked universe of being connected "everywhere, everytime to everything" via java and dsps.
MAJC, another piece of Sun's technology to alter the fabric of computing as the network surrounds and envelops us.
All the best,
Michael |
