BR --
I agree and think TI has already guided analysts so there won't be any surprises. Word's spreading they're a DSP house and not DRAM. I posted an article on the SSPIF thread that you may find interesting.
Later --
Pat
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Emerging Business, Consumer Applications Dominate Show Floor at DSP World Spring Design Conference
PR Newswire - April 07, 1998 11:01
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging business and consumer applications will dominate the show floor at this year's DSP World Spring Design Conference, which runs from April 21 - 23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (Santa Clara, Calif.). Driven by the demand for sophisticated personal communication systems, including video over computer networks and voice over the Internet, a new generation of software tools, digital signal processing chips, and other components will be unveiled at the exhibition.
"The trend is definitely toward application-specific technology and we are going to see lots of products for computer telephony and telecommunications applications," said Nicole Westmoreland, editor-in-chief of COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS DESIGN magazine. "New products shown for the first time by some of the 75 companies on the show floor, will include devices and software for videoconferencing, audio compression, digital satellite systems, cordless phones, and much more."
The 16,000 sq. ft. product exhibition (open 12:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 22 and 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23) is held in conjunction with a three-day technical conference which provides information to engineers who evaluate and implement DSP solutions. The conference opens with a full day of tutorial sessions on Tuesday April 21.
The next two days feature dozens of workshops - each rated as introductory, intermediate or advanced - on a variety of topics, ranging from the use of DSPs in consumer applications, to software development issues and system-on- chip DSP solutions.
According to industry analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts (Tempe, Arizona), the DSP chip market grew by 33.6 percent in 1997, and is expected to grow an additional 30 percent in 1998. The double-digit growth rate will continue well into the next century.
"Digital wireless, modems and storage applications are the principle
drivers of growth in the DSP industry today, but in the next few years we'll see a significant increase in new applications and markets such as digital satellite handsets, digital subscriber line (ADSL) communications, high- density television (HDTV), direct broadcast audio (DBA), and motor control," said Strauss. "These applications will drive the market for DSPs to more than $14 billion by the year 2002, almost five times its current value. To lead this market's growth, it is essential that engineers and designers update their knowledge-base and skills by attending events such as the DSP World Spring Design Conference."
In addition to the product exhibition, and the program of technical
sessions, the DSP World Spring Design Conference includes two panel discussions and a keynote address. One of the panel discussions focuses on DSP architectures, and the other focuses on current and future DSP applications for digital audio in the entertainment industry. In the conference keynote, Dr. Edward Lee will discuss his research on concurrency modeling in relationship to DSP design. The award-winning researcher will share his innovative ideas on the visualization of DSP systems, which he has developed as director of U.C. Berkeley's Ptolemy project.
DSP World Spring Design Conference is produced by Miller Freeman, Inc., publisher of COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS DESIGN, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING, and MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS DESIGN magazines, and the world's largest producer of
conferences and trade exhibitions. Other events produced by Miller Freeman include ICSPAT & DSP World Expo and the Embedded Systems Conferences. For further information on this year's conference, visit the DSP World Spring Design Conference World Wide Web site at dspworld.com.
Exhibitor Contact: Ann Harris of Miller Freeman, Inc., 781-235-8589
Attendee Contact: Liz Austin of Miller Freeman, Inc., 415-538-3848, or toll-free, 888-239-5563, or dspworld@mfi.com
Press Registration: FS Communications, 650-691-1488, or julie@fscomm.com
SOURCE Miller Freeman, Inc. /CONTACT: Wendy Lewis or Matthew Schmidt of FS Communications,
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