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Technology Stocks : C-Cube
CUBE 36.57-2.6%3:07 PM EST
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To: BillyG who wrote (24709)11/1/1997 7:07:00 PM
From: BillyG  Read Replies (4) of 50808
 
LSI Logic troubles, from my last link.........................

Is there big trouble ahead?

I got my worry beads out after reading what LSI Logic's Wilf Corrigan had
to say this past week at the IP Forum in Yokohoma. He and his
management team had "consistently underestimated" the difficulty of
system-on-a-chip design and had to limit core-based design efforts to parts
with enough volumes to justify the costs. With the industry ready to shift to
systems-on-silicon, Wilf's admission adds to the mounting concern that
core-based design may be on a collision course with shrinking silicon
geometries, David Lammers writes in EE Times.

"People have not fully appreciated" the difficulties of integrating logic cores,
Wilf said, noting designs requiring over 1 million gates consumed five times
more engineering man-hours than expected. The gap is widening, Wilf said,
as process technology plows past EDA tools.

Difficulties with "system on a chip" are good for CUBE, which does not try to cram graphics, modems, and the kitchen sink into its MPEG2 decoder chips. The integration of AC-3 and DVD functions does not rise to the level of a system on a chip.
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