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Technology Stocks : Texas Instruments - Good buy now or should we wait?

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To: jbershad who wrote (2684)	1/2/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) of 6180

<..they may come up with something big...> from techweb.com -------- Lucent claims the DSP16210 [...the first offering in their 16000 "Sabre" series...] consumes up to five times less power and requires up to five times less memory than other DSPs, but performance wasn't overlooked along the way. As DSP feature sizes drop below a half micron and supply voltages approach 1 V, performance gains are harder to obtain because of the laws of physics, said Jim Boddie, director of wireless and multimedia technology at Bell Labs. "Our solution is not just to shrink the chip, but to perform more functions in parallel," Boddie said. Lucent's chip uses a dual 16-bit x 16-bit MAC design coupled with a bank of eight 40-bit accumulators to accelerate performance. Operating at 3 V, the device is capable of 200 million MAC operations/s. An on-chip 62-Kx16 dual-port RAM helps conserve power, according to the company. Lucent officials expect the chip to cost approximately $50 in quantities of 100,000 or more. Production volumes will be available in 1998. The Lucent chip will compete with Texas Instruments Inc.'s TMS320C6X, which uses a dual-MAC architecture. Dallas-based TI takes a different approach: a very-long-instruction-word architecture that fetches eight instructions at a time and, based on 1 bit in each instruction, executes between one and eight of the instructions in parallel. ------------ see also: techweb.com techweb.com And LU is also involved with FPGA's and cores, which will be competitive with many DSP applications in filling the ASIC/DSP gap. Excellent review at: zdnet.com Steve

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