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To: Ted Downs who wrote (9144)	1/8/2000 11:06:00 AM
From: bob	Respond to of 18366

Ted, Fred Falk our CEO could be found in the IBM Room at various times. More interesting news to ponder about as we await the inevetable acceptance of the MicroOS in the digital handheld world. All Ears For Internet Audio At CES CMP Tech Web - Friday, January 07, 2000 Jan 07, 2000 (Tech Web - CMP via COMTEX) -- LAS VEGAS -- Vendors rode the craze for Internet Audio this week,using the Consumer Electronics Show to introduce different flavors of devices. From the tiniest portables to stereo component-sized jukeboxes, the devices came from large companies such as Sony Electronics, Panasonic, and Philips, as well as unknown startups in the U.S. and overseas hoping to crash the party. .... also... "The Internet audio market reached 1 million devices shipped in 1999 and is projected to reach 5 million units in 2000, according to market researchers. The most interesting aspect of this fixation on Internet Audio is that the major record labels still have not released all of their most popular content to be sold over the Internet because of piracy concerns. Specifications from the Secure Digital Music Initiative(SDMI) -- the group of music industry, computer, and consumer electronics manufacturers working out security specifications for portable Internet audio devices -- have yet to be completed." also, "TI has big plans for Internet audio. McKune described the company's vision of incorporating Internet audio file format encoding and decoding into Internet appliances like web phones, PDAs, and digital cameras. As TI introduces next-generation DSPs (it will detail a next-generation DSP code-named "119" later this year) with more performance and less power consumption, McClure said Internet audio devices will do encoding and decoding, and allow consumers to download and watch their favorite television programs. The Dallas chip company has 19 design-wins in portable Internet audio players (not all of the manufacturers using TI's DSP have announced it) and has been working hard to be the leader in the market since its inception two years ago. Other silicon companies and consumer electronics manufactures share TI vision of the future. PDAs, ebooks, home stereo systems, web phones, and home media servers with Internet audio coding and decoding function are part of the vision of Cirrus Logic, Fremont, Calif., according to Jay Johnson, director of marketing for the embedded processor division. At CES, Cirrus said it had allied with Diamond Multimedia Communications, a division of S3, for Cirrus' next-generation Maverick processors to be used in Diamond's Rio-like Internet audio players and other Internet appliances. They declined to reveal a timetable for the devices."