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To: E. Graphs who wrote (14813)	9/8/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Respond to of 25814

Hitachi Goes Digital With LSI Logic Chips LSI Logic's Complete System Solution Selected for Hitachi Digital Terrestrial Set-Top Box and Integrated TVs BRACKNELL, England, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI), a leader in providing complete system solutions for digital consumer products, today announced that it will supply Hitachi Home Electronics, UK, with a comprehensive channel-to-source digital terrestrial silicon solution for Hitachi's newest line of digital set-top boxes and integrated TVs. The highly integrated chipset makes it easy for digital TV designers to quickly produce a performance-optimized digital terrestrial solution at a very competitive cost. The complete front-to-backend offering includes a single-chip 2k/8k COFDM demodulator with FFT, an FEC, an integrated Transport Demux and 32-bit MIPS CPU, and an MPEG-2 A/V decoder, enabling products with superior broadcast reception. Hitachi's recently announced C32W40DTN (32") and C28W40DTN (28") widescreen integrated digital terrestrial TVs (idTV) and DTR801 DVB digital terrestrial set-top box will feature LSI Logic's chipset throughout. The Hitachi products will be in the retail shops later this year, in time for the U.K. digital terrestrial TV launch. Because they are based on LSI's 2k/8k COFDM demodulator, Hitachi is poised to make their products available for broader European consumption, as digital terrestrial TV rolls out across Europe which requires 8k demodulation. "Hitachi's choice of LSI Logic's complete digital terrestrial system solution is an important endorsement for our products," said Simon Dolan, vice president of marketing for LSI Logic's consumer division. "They are leaders in quality consumer electronics and at the forefront of bringing the newest technology into the public domain at affordable prices." "This design win is very exciting for us. It demonstrates LSI's strength across all areas of digital TV design, from the COFDM through to the Transport Demux and MPEG-2 A/V decoder," said Trevor Neal, market development manager, LSI Logic Europe. "What we've been able to offer Hitachi is a complete, highly integrated solution and a roadmap for future integration," he continued. "LSI Logic is enabling a new era of consumer products."