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To: Scumbria who wrote (33801)3/27/2001 5:36:06 PM
From: fyodor_Read Replies (2) of 275872
 
Scumbria: Can you elaborate on the need for a DSP processor?

Audio and Video (de)compression would probably be the main usage. Sure, you _can_ do this with a normal CPU, but then you _could_ do floating point math with pre386DX x86 processors ;)

There are other uses as well(e.g. networking), but many already have dedicated processors in computers today.

-fyo
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