To: Bilow who wrote (2180 ) 10/26/1998 11:58:00 PM From: Bilow Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Hi all; It's Monday, and an interesting new EE-Times is out. Surprisingly, a lot of articles discuss the workstation market, which I have recently posted about. In addition, there are articles on the new 64-bit processors, as well as the new serial busses.Wave of 64-bit processors to rock workstation arena As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares this week to unleash a battle-hardened, 64-bit version of its Unix-like Solaris operating system, the fight for control of the engineering-workstation market is about to veer off in an unexpected direction. techweb.com Views clash over future of engineer's desktop -- NT making EDA inroads, but not as fast as expected Clearly, forecasts that half of all EDA dollars would ship on NT by 2000 will not pan out. NT's first inroads were in the pc-board market, then the lower-mainstream market. Neither market has a high average selling price per seat. It's the upper mainstream and the power users that drive the EDA dollars, and this is precisely where NT is having trouble. techweb.com Finding Unix ain't broke, chip side balks at NT Not long ago, many EDA vendors and analysts viewed Windows NT as the next platform of choice for EDA software. But the chip designers who control the vast majority of the EDA industry's revenues had other ideas, and it's recently become apparent that the Windows NT juggernaut has slowed. techweb.com Tools due for Altera Apex line Quartus will be available in the first quarter of 1999 on Windows and Unix platforms. Further information is available at www.altera.com. techweb.com Connectivity opens up design vistas Once a self-contained system, the desktop computer has gradually become the hub of an increasingly complex array of intelligent peripherals. At this point, as users grapple with a desktop wiring nightmare, system designers are having to rethink the whole notion of desktop interconnectivity. techweb.com Standards merge consumer, PC products With the advent of the IEEE 1394 serial-interface standard, system designers have for the first time a clean way to move high-bandwidth video and audio digital traffic among peer devices. This new, more-democratic peer-to-peer arrangement means that the desktop computer is no longer the central node for interdevice communications. That feature has some interesting implications for players in both the PC and consumer-electronics (CE) markets and 1394 will be the wire that supports the convergence of consumer-electronic and PC products. techweb.com Fast moves roil emerging PC connectivity The recent move by Quantum Corp. to introduce its Ultra-ATA/66 high-speed interface for the desktop has now roiled the IEEE 1394 movement-suddenly making the standard less of a certainty. techweb.com Digital links lead to crisper images Over the next five years, consumers will experience a rapid transition from bulky CRTs to sleek flat-panel displays (FPDs) and other digital displays on the desktop and in consumer devices techweb.com
