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To: cooksbay95 who wrote (51635)	3/31/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Cooksbak95 - Re: " I don't remember you commenting on DSPs. Is this an opportunity or a threat re- INTC .... ......or neither. Would you comment pls." DSPs exist, for the most part, in a parallel universe from Intel's offerings. These are generally dedicated EMBEDDED processors for signal processing - finding big uses in communications (Modems, ADSL Modems) and controllers (Hard Disk Drives). In some respects - the modem part - Intel's MMX instructions are designed to compete or eliminate DSPs - but as the transfer rates increase, the burden on CPU performance increases. So, modems - particularly the 3COM/USR X2 modems - make heavy use of TI DSP chips. Motorola has recently introduced a Pentium-based soft modem - using x86 instructions - that looks like it could compete with DSPs but DSPs are getting cheaper all the time. {===============================} zdnet.com 56K software modem does job for less Motorola's SM56 matches hardware speeds, has few drawbacks By David Bardes for PC Week Labs 02.04.98 " Based on PC Week labs' tests of Motorola Inc.'s SM56, software modems will soon be coming on strong. The only drawback to the K56Flex software modem, which performs almost as well as its hardware counterparts--and costs much less--is that it requires a fast CPU with a large cache for adequate performance. " more....... {=================================} All in all, DSPs will continue to grow in use in embedded applications where they provide unique solutions to specific problems and will not be in the roadway that PC CPUs travel. Paul