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To: JGoren who wrote (35428)	7/17/1999 2:03:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Irwin said the MSM5000 would contain a couple of DSPs, which are digital signal processors, which do electronic wizardry which has usually been done in a separate ASIC. Q! is combining most of the chip stuff into a single ASIC. It makes it faster, cheaper, more efficient, more functional, smaller. Somebody else will need to say exactly what the DSP does, but I guess it collects the signal from the aerial system, converts it to the right sort of electronics and passes it on for further processing. The MSM5000 is the basis for HDR, cdma2000 progression and should be commercially ready later this year. Maurice

To: JGoren who wrote (35428)	7/17/1999 2:29:00 AM
From: quidditch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

JGoren, on DSPs, and further to Maurice's post: DSPs are what Mq said, and the electronic wizardry is converting digital bit streams to analog streams, i.e., which make it audible and comprehensible as human speech, and back. Engibous' strategic repositioning of TXN to get out of PC chips and memory and into DSPs was quite the call. TXN made some announcements about six weeks ago about new generation DSPs working in conjunction with a new software platform the result of which, it was said, would accelerate new features (mmedia, data) into wireless. Thread tried to dope out at that time whether this constituted a threat; I believe that we tentatively concluded that it did not (because of nature of DSP as necessary complement to voice/data transmission via CDMA). But the tech heavyweights on the thread did not, as I recall, weigh in on that discussion. Regards, JG. Probably hotter in NYC metro area than Dallas this weekend. Steven