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Technology Stocks : Genesis Microchip (GNSS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Si_Detective who wrote (817)	1/22/2001 3:56:57 PM
From: trilobyte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1277

by: SanJose88 (M/San Jose, CA) 01/21/01 11:53 pm EST Msg: 10650 of 10671 I read through the Gorilla thread on Silicon Investor and I may be able to help you regarding the "standard" that you have been asked about. Genesis does not have a proprietary standard per se but I will submit the following for you consideration. Neither of the two interfaces, analog (VGA) and DVI, can be claimed to be proprietary as they are both open industry standards. However DVI does not spec the distance that a link is intended to operate over althoguh I believe it is commonly held that 5 meters is the distance. Silicon Image invented PanelLink which became the DVI standard but the DDWG (Digital Display Working Group) wanted it to be open with no royalties and that is the way it is. Silicon Image's first chips probably didn't meet the 5 meter standard. I heard that one meter was what they could achieve by those who had used it. It is critical that parts supporting the DVI standard be able to drive at least the length of a cable between the PC and Display which is 2 to 3 meters. Being able to drive 5 meters gives you design margin and 10 meters is excellent and extends the standard. Genesis' original DVI part was not well accepted. My guess is that it didn't work any better than SIMGs parts. The industry found no reason to change to the Genesis part at that time. So Genesis invented "Ultra reliable DVI" which is patent protected or pending, I can't remember which. It is found in three or more of Genesis products. In my view "Ultra-reliable DVI" is now the standard against which other parts will be judged. This is because it will operate reliably up to 10 meters, twice the original intent. Until the competition can at least meet this performance level there may be no reason to switch to their parts. I say "may be" because the competition could meet say 5 meters and add a feature that Genesis doesn't have thereby making them more attractive. Hope this helps you. Mike