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To: John Rieman who wrote (31310)	3/23/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) of 50808

RISC chips and settop boxes.......... news.com <<The announcements follow a number of cable TV and set-top box wins for MIPS-based chips and other RISC processors such as those based on Sun Microsystems' Sparc technology. In another RISC victory, sources say Intel apparently will not supply TCI with processors for 10 million set-top boxes. The main reason for the trend is cost, analysts said. RISC chips are generally smaller and less expensive to manufacture. RISC chips also enjoy a distinct design advantage because they consume less power, making it easier and cheaper to build boxes around them, noted Jim Turley, an analyst with MicroDesign Resources. In many cases, they are also more efficient processing engines than Intel chips. >> Let me connect the bold points above. The benefits of RISC processors are: -- lower cost because they are smaller & less expensive to manufacture -- consume less power -- more efficient processing engines I sleep well at night knowing that CUBE uses Sun's MicroSPARC RISC processor core in its MPEG-2 encoders and decoders.

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