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To: Humblefrank who wrote (17362)6/23/1997 8:41:00 AM
From: BillyG   of 50808
 
It looks like STM is licensed by Cyrix to use its Pentium core, and STM is combining this core with other peripheral functions -- such as DVD?

Here are some relevant excerpts from your STM post:

<<This could look like a dead heat, but SGS-Thomson has a trump card
in its multimedia core library. The company is considering adding DVD
decoder blocks-the company's forte-to its single-chip PC by the
second quarter of 1998.>>

STM is building the second generation Mpact chip:

<<High-quality TV output, together with an anti-flicker filter, will make the
ST PC Consumer an ideal engine to go inside TV/PC products such as
PC Theater, he said.
The main focus of the ST PC Consumer is to enable manufacturers to
build a cost-effective platform that allows them to carry old baggage
such as the ISA bus. It's feasible for some vendors to build a
multimedia PC using an advanced media processor such as Chromatic
Research Inc.'s Mpact together with the ST PC Consumer, said Taylor.
SGS-Thomson is presently developing the second-generation version of
the Mpact chip, which allows advanced video and 3-D acceleration on
a PC.
Taylor said a decision on whether to marry the two will be determined
by customers. "This business is totally customer-driven," he said.>>

Merging Mpact with a Pentium core. . . interesting. It is also interesting that STM states that chips based on its Pentium core will retail for $35 -- the same as its codec chip. However, the press release on the codec states that it is based on a different processor. A lot remains to be sorted out on STM.

But don't forget -- CUBE is still way ahead of STM in shipping chips NOW which work for DVD and PC-DVD.
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