Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ptanner who wrote (76714)	4/8/2002 5:05:20 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The 1.3B units seems pretty high given the number of people in the world." Of course this is true only if you see the market as cellphones and PDAs. It isn't. It very well may be that in 10 years there will be several of this class processor for every person in the US, mostly in deeply embedded uses. "I wonder how this architecture will fare in a market with competition from StrongARM and other processors." The competition is mainly XScale. True, IBM has some ambitions with their PPC403 processor, but they aren't yet to that performance level and the power consumption is higher, although that is supposed to change soon. Plus, they don't have a similar peripheral mix, something that is very important in that market. All the others are at maybe half the performance level and slightly more power.

To: ptanner who wrote (76714)	4/8/2002 6:49:57 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Patrick The 1.3B units seems pretty high given the number of people in the world. This is something I came across yesterday: sciatl.com Apparently Scientific Atlanta uses MIPs processors in their cable boxes (or am I totally confused and they just list the speed ratings in MIPs?). Anyway, for every cable subscriber, there needs to be a cable box, and recently, these boxes have been getting more complicated, with arrival of DTV and HDTV. But it seems that to serve the idiotic and misguided HDTV "standards", a lot of power will be needed for all kinds of signal conversions that will need to take place inside these boxes. THis will most likely have to be specialized hardware implementations. I doubt the Alchemy lines of chips can handle video decoding and re-encoding. Joe