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To: John who wrote (31612)	3/30/1998 9:47:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

MPEG2 encoder chips......... nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com The article has lots of details. Here is an excerpt. CUBE is way out in front. <<March 30, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Semiconductor makers are targeting the consumer electronics market by releasing MPEG2 video encoder ICs in rapid succession. Those ICs integrate video encoding functions compliant with the Main Profile at Main Level (MP@ML) of the MPEG2 standard into a microchip. At least eight semiconductor makers will start mass producing the ICs by the first quarter of 1999, targeting consumer products such as home video recorders and digital cameras. C-Cube Microsystems Inc. of the United States, Digital Media Lab Inc. (DML) and Toshiba Corp. already started sampling MPEG2 video encoder microchips for business-use products such as encoders to be installed at a digital broadcasting station and digital video disk (DVD) drives. NEC Corp., Sony Corp., Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. are developing MPEG2 video encoder ICs for consumer-electronics use. Each group will start mass production in 1998: Fujitsu Laboratories and Matsushita Electric Industrial are only in charge of the product development, while the former's parent company, Fujitsu Ltd., and the latter's subsidiary, Matsushita Electronics Corp., will be in charge of mass producing MPEG2 video encoder ICs on behalf of the groups. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will start producing MPEG2 video codec (coder-decoder) ICs in 1999 that also integrate MPEG2 audio encoding and decoding functions. >>