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To: Jim Fraser who wrote (33684)	6/8/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: JPM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Jim, Does your computer have a sound card? How about a video card? How about a modem card? Computers of the future will use DVD card w/ hardware decode too.

To: Jim Fraser who wrote (33684)	6/8/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 50808

>>single chip it seems to me that any special decoding hardware that cube makes (no matter how great it is) will be short lived and replaced by the more powerful system CPU(s). This will make PC's cheaper and cut cube out of the picture. Please tell me why I have it all wrong... Well, you don't have it all wrong. (sigh...) When that time comes, I'd bet they cut a deal with INTC or someone to use the Ziva code and integrate it into a P8 or Pwhatever. Remember the Cube part of the biz is fabless...so they're really a SW supplier. Another thing is to compare DVD to modem operation....sure a HUGE MHZ processor could do it...but not do it as well as a dedicated chip & path. Thirdly, the codec....its gunna take a pile of 600MHz Intels to even tackle realtime encoding. No SW based system gunna come even close here.