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To: DiViT who wrote (29276)	2/9/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 50808

Big chip, upper, middle left = CUBE. I zoomed in..

To: DiViT who wrote (29276)	2/9/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: JPM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I think its almost certainly C_CUBE !!!!!!!!!!1 Check out the second of Dave's links... compaq.com When the page is done loading... zoom in to the picture by clicking on the left mouse button and the zoom feature... its C-Cube !!!!!!!! Jp

To: DiViT who wrote (29276)	2/10/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Glenn Holbert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Compaq & CUBE chip...To clear up the the confusion: compaq.com Here is the zoomed view of the card. Yes, the CUBE chip is here. But also look at some of the other chips on the card. There are 3 chips on the card which say "REALmagic" only two of which you can read. REALmagic is the Sigma Designs tradename. This is a Sigma Designs Maxima MPEG-1 board. It is the only MPEG-1 board "qualified" by Compaq at this time. The price may seem high, however if you knew how these card were being used and who was buying them, it would become clear to you. These are the cards that Smith Barney had installed in their new broker workstations. IBM installed similar Sigma cards in Merrill Lynch workstations sometime ago. Starlight has an agreement with Compaq whereby CPQ will supply the PC's for any contracts closed (by Starlight) with "financial" type companies looking to have video and data streamed via satellight across a company's intranet. CPQ was so surprised with the success in this area to date that they added the card to their accessory catalogue...and that is what you see in the hyperlink. Within intranets, the video and data arrives in a very unpredictable fashion leading to bottlenecks which are handled just fine by hardware MPEG but not so well by software. For those of you who don't know the difference between MPEG-2 and DVD this is it. DVD is decoded from a direct source- the DVD-ROM drive/player. MPEG-2 is streamed from a not so predictable source. Financial companies in particular, need to know that the(real time) data will be handled efficiently and in most cases the networking companies(COMS ASND BAY CSCO LU SGI ORCL Starlight,etc.) are saying Sigma Designs cards are the only ones they recommend. That's why the price is where it is. The same thing applies with the Wal-Mart deal, the Fairlane Airline deal and the cruise ship deal, etc. The profit margins here are much better than in the DVD area. The corporate intranetworking market is just now ready to enter a rapid growth phase. When it comes to decoding video over intranets using hardware, Sigma has very little to no competition. This is where I feel the real potential is with Sigma... not the low margin, highly competitive DVD market.