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To: JGoren who wrote (2466)	10/18/1999 12:54:00 PM
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Toshiba-Cdma> Semiconductors Systems & Software Design Technology People Toshiba signs Zuken to support video-phone chip launch By Yoshiko Hara EE Times (10/18/99, 12:17 p.m. EDT) TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. has tapped Zuken Inc. to support the launch next spring of its MPEG-4 chip, which it hopes to establish as the market's de factor solution for next-generation video phones. Toshiba's chip will integrate MPEG-4 encoding and decoding and graphic processing functions. Zuken, a leading supplier of CAD/CAM software, will provide technical support and know how to cellular phone makers looking to implement the chip into their products. Zuken will offer design know-how, verification and test tools for the chip when Toshiba begins shipments next spring. Next-generation wideband CDMA service is scheduled to begin in Japan in the spring of 2001, and manufacturers are already competing in the development of related technologies. Video phone prototypes that support a 384-kilobit/second transmission rate have already been demonstrated by NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT Docomo) and NEC Corp. MPEG-4 is the key technology for next-generation cell phones with image-transmission capabilities. Toshiba has been developing an MPEG-4 codec algorithm and is working to keep pace with MPEG-4 standardization work. Last June, Toshiba announced MobileMotion software products which allow MPEG-4 image transmission over the Internet. This past May the company announced new MobileMotion products which were fully compliant with the standardized MPEG-4 specifications. Toshiba's single-chip MPEG-4 device was developed using technologies developed for the MobileMotion products, and is expected to be used with one external synchronous DRAM to form the core of video cell phones. Search words: Print this story Send as e-mail