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To: John Rieman who wrote (33199)	5/13/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

LSI Logic and systems on a chip. Currently, there is yearly consumption of 10 million transistors per person in the world. Bet you can't eat just one................ techweb.cmp.com <<Another multiple systems-on-a-chip demoed to shareholders was the heart of what LSI Logic called a universal set-top box. Working with Sony, LSI Logic has developed chips to decode multiple functions embedded on DVD disks. When the disk is inserted into a player, it could yield movies with such features as subtitles in multiple languages, or an analysis of particular scenes from the movie, and could include various plot scenarios that are controlled by the user. Another multiple systems-on-a-chip application involves a Casio digital camera that shoots seven exposures per second, and will be shooting 30 exposures/s in a year. That would allow still cameras to show custom moving pictures on a television or PC, or over the Internet. Another demo showed a DVD decoder based on a PCMCIA card and able to play a decoded movie in the background on a notebook computer screen while the system is engaged in office applications such as word processing and spreadsheets. The consumption of an ever-increasing number of transistors per capita worldwide will provide fuel for these products, especially as the expanding Internet weaves a giant Web among world communities. "The per capita consumption is increasing at 55 percent a year to where we now have close to 10 million transistors per person in the world," [burp!]though not distributed equally among its population, Corrigan said. "If you think that the increase in chip units shipped per year is more than 50 percent, and the increase of transistors/per unit is also at 50 percent, you begin to see the picture that the demand for MSOC [multiple systems-on-a-chip] ICs will increase exponentially to populate the 'edge' devices that will hook us all together over the growing Internet.">>