[Korean Competition]
Hi Pat,
Good to see ya on this thread too. Here's news on a new TI competitor. LG owns Zenith and most of the high definition TV patents. And.....I fear they will be in an environment that makes a cheap chip. Hope they're too new to dump.
C ya later
LG Semicon Develops Innovative DSP Chip KR
December 12, 1997 (SEOUL) -- LG Semicon Inc. is the first Korean company to develop a third-generation digital signal processor (DSP), a company official said.
Digital signal processors are analog-to-digital microchips that handle voice and image signals at high speeds, and they are used widely in mobile phones.
LG Semicon's new chip features high-speed data transfer, at almost twice the speed of so-called second-generation DSPs, and it is just half the size of conventional chips.
It consumes about 10 percent less power than the same-class DSPs developed by leading U.S. microchip makers, the company spokesman said.
This paves the way for LG to secure necessary technology for developing other advanced chips, including a merged chip, which unifies the functions of a RISC microprocessor and peripheral circuits, the company spokesman said.
LG Semicon is cooperating with LG Information & Communications Ltd. to promote sales of mobile phones and digital videodisk (DVD) players equipped with the DSP chip.
The global DSP market, led by Texas Instruments Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., is expected to grow by 40 percent a year, to reach US$29 billion by 2001, the company said.
(Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea) |
