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Technology Stocks : ZORAN jpeg/dvd moguls -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: helkel who wrote (1159)	2/22/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: John	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1486

Got this off the yahoo message board. If I remember correctly, the previous announcement said there were 10 (not 16) companies that signed with Zoran. Subj: News By: GRIFF1969 Date: Feb 22 1998 9:55 A.M PST Reply To: Msg. 1 by YahooFinance Zoran Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced an alliance with 16 graphics-accelerator companies, including IX Micro, Nvidia and Silicon Motion, to deliver high-performance DVD software decoding for the PC market. Ten of these companies are using using Zoran's software-only DVD decoder, SoftDVD, in conjunction with its 5,000-gate motion-compensation core. According to Zoran, the licensees are in the process of integrating the technology-independent, motion-compensation VLSI core in soft format into their future graphics-accelerator products. In addition, Zoran has signed four joint-development agreements to adapt SoftDVD to graphics accelerators containing third-party motion compensation. Zoran believes the combination of SoftDVD and graphics accelerators with motion compensation will provide a high-performance, low-cost software DVD-playback solution for multimedia PCs, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware. Visit www.zoran.com.