DSP cores take comms focus
By Patrick Mannion, EE Times
Oct 15, 2001 (10:34 AM)
URL: eetimes.com
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Five of the latest digital signal processing architectures will be scrutinized at the annual Microprocessor Forum this week in San Jose, Calif.
Siroyan Ltd. and Silicon Spice will finally open the doors to their revolutionary architectures, while 3DSP Corp. and LSI Logic Corp. will unveil the latest, high-performance versions of their well-established cores. Adding diversity, Equator Technologies Inc. will launch the latest in its line of high-end DSPs for video/image processing.
With a strong overall focus on communications, the five add to a slew of DSP cores announced over the last 18 months, many of them conceived in a time of readily available venture-capital funding in response to what was a rapidly growing market.
Underscoring how that growth has cooled, figures from analyst firm Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.) show that total worldwide DSP IC shipments will fall from roughly $17 billion in 2000 to about $13 billion in 2001. However, Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said the market is expected to return to strong growth in 2002 at $18 billion, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 19.1 percent to $40 billion or more by 2005. snip...
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