Got this off the yahoo message board. If I remember correctly, the previous announcement said there were 10 (not 16) companies that signed with Zoran.
Subj: News
By: GRIFF1969
Date: Feb 22 1998 9:55 A.M PST
Reply To: Msg. 1 by YahooFinance
Zoran Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced an alliance with 16 graphics-accelerator companies, including IX Micro, Nvidia and Silicon Motion, to deliver high-performance DVD software decoding for the PC market. Ten of these companies are using using Zoran's software-only DVD decoder, SoftDVD, in conjunction with its 5,000-gate motion-compensation core.
According to Zoran, the licensees are in the process of integrating the technology-independent, motion-compensation VLSI
core in soft format into their future graphics-accelerator products. In addition, Zoran has signed four joint-development
agreements to adapt SoftDVD to graphics accelerators containing third-party motion compensation. Zoran believes the combination of
SoftDVD and graphics accelerators with motion compensation will provide a high-performance, low-cost software DVD-playback solution
for multimedia PCs, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware. Visit www.zoran.com.
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