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To: John Rieman who wrote (29552)	2/22/1998 1:45:00 PM
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John, Some probably missed the Q&A. Can you post the link where you got this or is this a "private" thing? C-Cube is not the only one with a PR problem (VBG). QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS REGARDING Vaddis4VMI 17. How does this compare to the C-Cube announcement for a DVD daughter card? answer does on jibe with CUBE's The C-cube daughter card requires 4 units of EDO DRAM while Vaddis only requires one 16Mbit SDRAM. To the best of our knowledge no competing solution requires such a small number of devices or achieves as low cost a solution as the Vaddis4VMI DVD daughter card. 1. What is Zoran's relationship with Intel for DVD solutions? Intel and Zoran have worked together in a number of areas, including all software DVD solutions with SoftDVD and now a hardware DVD solution with Vaddis. 2. How long have you been working together? We have been working together on various projects for over two years. 3. What is the technology that you are announcing? The technology is called VMI: it is a direct bidirectional interface between the graphics chip and the DVD decoder and enables a very low cost hardware DVD solution. 4. Who developed the daughter card? Zoran designed the daughter card in close cooperation with Intel so that it works with Intel's new Intel740 graphics chip. 5. Is Zoran selling the daughter card? Zoran is providing the daughter card as a reference design. Actual volume manufacturing will be done by various PC board manufacturers. 6. How can customers get the daughter card? The daughter card is available to qualified Independent Hardware Vendors and OEM's from Zoran and Intel. 7. How much does the daughter card cost? The cost for the Bill Of Materials is less than $30 in high volume. 8. Does Zoran have a vendor/customer who is currently manufacturing the daughter card? To be announced. 9. When will the daughter card be shipping? The reference design is available immediately from Intel and Zoran. 10. What is so wonderful about the daughter card design versus other daughter cards? Are there others? Zoran's daughter card has a very low component count consisting of a single 16Mbit SDRAM, the Vaddis decoder, and a 27Mhz clock oscillator which leads to a sub-$30 BOM. There are other daughter cards but they have many additional chips. 11. Does this replace current graphic cards? Vaddis4VMI is designed to plug into the VMI connector of an Intel740 graphics card or Intel740-based motherboard. It requires a graphics chip in order to operate. 12. Which graphic cards does this daughter card add-on to? At this time, the daughter card only works with the Intel740 Customer Reference Board. 13. What other graphics chips support the VMI standard? Several graphics vendors support the VMI standard including Intel, Cirrus Logic, Trident, and Nvidia. 14. What is included in the reference design? The reference design includes a daughter card and all of the software drivers necessary to make it work with the Intel740 Customer Reference Board. 15. Why is it lower cost? How much lower (%)? The VMI daughter card implementation provides hardware DVD decoding for roughly one half of the cost of a PCI card implementation and does not require a PCI slot. 16. What is so great about the Vaddis chip on-board? Vaddis is the most highly integrated DVD decoder in production and includes full CSS decryption on-chip as well as a Zoran proprietary interface to a single 16 Mbit SDRAM. 17. How does this compare to the C-Cube announcement for a DVD daughter card? The C-cube daughter card requires 4 units of EDO DRAM while Vaddis only requires one 16Mbit SDRAM. To the best of our knowledge no competing solution requires such a small number of devices or achieves as low cost a solution as the Vaddis4VMI DVD daughter card.

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