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 : Spectrum Signal Processing (SSPI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sarah Chapin who wrote (411)	12/23/1997 10:51:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4400

[Marty Gold on DSPs] Don't know if this was posted earlier. Worth repeating, if it was. <<< EE Times December 08, 1997, Issue: 984 Section: Design DSPs: A year of changes Martin Gold For digital signal processing, 1997 was a year of transition that included the start of a major consolidation among vendors offering card-level DSP subsystems with standalone, general-purpose DSPs. The merger of Loughborough Sound Images and Mizar Inc. last month is the latest such development. Earlier in the year, Ixthos was acquired by DY4 Systems Inc., while RadiSys Corp. took over Sonitech International Inc. I expect further consolidation, especially among card makers whose primary thrust has been using the older architectures for the military market. There will, however, be both survivors and newcomers whose claim to fame is being among the first to offer subsystems with the newer DSPs, such as TI's C6X. Also this year, the chip suppliers loudly touted new architectures said to offer significant increases in speed and lower power dissipation. Texas Instruments unveiled its fixed- and floating-point 320C6X families; Lucent Technologies launched its dual-MAC DSP16000 core, claiming to deliver next-generation performance with no compromise in memory size and power consumption. Next year will see the battle for large design wins as the new devices go into volume production. Communications systems are now the market driver for DSP solutions. Add computer networking to this list as the market to watch in the new year. But DSPs for these markets require a new approach, a new way of thinking. . . .>>>> [For full text, go to: cmp.com search under Marty Gold.