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To: Scrapps who wrote (3212)4/4/1998 10:30:00 PM
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Story posted at 8 a.m. EDT/5 a.m. PDT, 4/4/98

...Five cents a megaflop

Analog Devices Inc. hopes to make history this next week by introducing the first 32-bit, floating point DSP with a $10 price point, Steve Ohr reports in EE Times. The 180 megaflops device lowers the cost of a megaflop to 5 cents. But there's still a question over whether it will open new markets for 32-bit DSPs.

Lucent already has showed a $5, 16-bit processor targeted at speech compression, while Motorola has introduced a $20, 24-bit DSP for audio-decoding applications. But both run only fixed-point math. ADI's $10 Sharc performs floating-point math and is aimed at pushing 32-bit DSPs into the markets currently owned by 16-bit chips. The new ADI chip is meant to encourage new applications in speech, audio, and image processing, a 32-bit market that could be as large as $1.5 billion by 2001, AD figures.....
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