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 : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (15999)	1/11/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 24154

TCI has yet to select suppliers for the computer chips: Granted it's one of Patriot's "older" press release ..but still meaningful! PSC1000 DESIGNED FOR CABLE MODEM AND INTERACTIVE TV APPLICATIONS: PATRIOT'S PSC1000 DESIGNED FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS San Diego, California, April 2, 1996 -- Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTC: PTSC) recently announced that the ShBoom microprocessor is designed to be a highly efficient digital processor for a variety of digital communications. This includes cable modems, set-top boxes, ISDN modems and satellite interface devices. The ShBoom PSC1000 was also designed for sophisticated control applications, laser printer drivers, video terminal applications and video games. The PSC1000's stack-based architecture is ideal for Java processing. Mr. Norris, Patriot's President stated, "The arena of digital communications is one of the primary target markets for our ShBoom-architecture processor. Our first internally developed product that will incorporate the PSC1000 is our CyberShark digital ISDN modem. Our first marketing alliance which was recently announced with Evolve Software, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:UEIC) focuses on digital applications in the set-top box, satellite interface and cable modem markets. Evolve will represent Patriot's PSC1000 to major companies developing applications for these markets." Set-top boxes, satellite and cable modem markets are developing rapidly and demand high performance processors. Cable modems are designed to provide high-speed Internet connection for PC's allying the capabilities of PC's with the data capacities of cable networks. The set-top box of yesterday should not be confused with the future where increasingly intelligent set-top boxes will be used for interactive TV and will allow your television to provide Internet connectivity. Mr. Norris continued, "We believe Java will become increasingly important as the television and the Internet merge. ShBoom will do Java and much more with impressive price performance. With 30 million or so Internet and online users in the U.S. and growing, high speed connectivity is a large market segment. The National Cable Television Association alone is predicting online/high speed access revenues of more the $1 billion in 1999." The PSC1000 is a 32 bit RISC processor, using Patriot's patented ShBoom microprocessor technology in a highly integrated CPU. PSC1000's unique merged stack-register architecture is very efficient for executing languages such as C and C++, and even more so for stack oriented environments such as the stack virtual machine internal to Java. Many Java byte codes require only a single 8-bit PSC1000 instruction to be executed, providing a significant performance increase over other expensive processors that require six 32-bit instructions to perform the same task. The underlying ShBoom architecture is invisible when programming using Patriot's ANSI C compiler and the assembly language accepts both native and synthetic register-architecture-type instructions. Patriot Scientific Corporation is engaged in the development of proprietary technologies including patented microprocessor technology and ISDN interface products both with a strong commitment to development for the growing Internet market. The ShBoom- architecture PSC1000 microprocessor is being developed and targeted as a highly-efficient and cost-effective Java processor and for use in sophisticated embedded control environments. The Company also owns radar and antenna technology. For more information on the Company and its technologies visit ptsc.com. ############################################## The UnOfficial PTSC hoempage can be found @ geocities.com