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To: Rachel M. Kuecks who wrote (10903)	3/2/1997 7:06:00 PM
From: DiViT	of 50808

Well they ain't gonna add a NTSC/PAL encoder with software. Seems the customer wants this integration and ESS has been shopping for their own NTSC/PAL encoder. They found one and now they are working feverishly to come out with a VCD chip that integrates it too. This is the very same thing that Needham and H&Q says makes CUBE's CL680 too expensive to manufacture and too hard to shrink. Wonder if ESS can get their foundry (TMSC) to manufacture a mixed signal device with a low process failure rate? Probably, since Cube already has worked through the issues with them. Somebody tell that Needham guy to pay attention... Your question:What features can they (ESST) can add in firmware? I don't know, possibly a different set than what Cube can add? Look at it this way. The probability exists that ESS can add a feature that CUBE must add hardware for, but the reverse is also true. It's equally possible that CUBE can add a feature that ESS will have to add hardware for. It depends on the feature and what hardware already exists in the chips to support (it if any).

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