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To: SPSEIFERT who wrote (3828)	6/22/1998 9:52:00 AM
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ADI to announce new DSPs today. biz.yahoo.com Sunday June 21, 6:00 pm Eastern Time Analog Devices to unveil new line of voice chips NORWOOD, Mass., Juna 21 (Reuters) - Analog Devices Inc. (ADI - news) will Monday unveil a new generation of high-performance voice processing chips that promise to offer speeds 10 times faster than the company's existing products. The company will introduce the second generation of its SHARC 32-bit Digital Signal Processor (DSPs) designs and three new customers of the chip, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP - news). DSPs are semiconductors that process electric signals like sounds, images, radio transmissions, and measurements, and converts them into a digital form that can be used by a computer. The advance could make possible computers with speaker voice recognition -- an elusive goal requiring a huge amount of processing horsepower, analysts said. To identify customers, automated teller banking machines could recognize individual voices instead of requiring the customer to type in a password. Analog said the new chip designs will be used to create the world's fastest 32-bit general purpose DSPs for use by manufacturers in a wide range of products for medical imaging, radar and sonar systems and three-dimensional graphics. Tom Starnes, an industry analyst with market research firm Dataquest, said the new chip designs will shore up Analog's existing SHARC line, which has dominated the high-power end of the DSP business since it was introduced in 1992. However, Analog's position has been challenged by new high power DSPs introduced by rivals Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN - news) and Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU - news) in the last year, he said. In terms of overall market share in 1997, Texas Instruments held about 45 percent, Lucent had 28 percent and Analog Devices and Motorola Inc. (MOT - news) each held 12 percent, according to statistics from Forward Concepts Co, a Tempe, Ariz. market research firm.