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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67354)	10/25/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu - Re: " I'll bet that Intel Architecture Labs (IAL) has a project going on which is looking at software-only HDTV decoders for the PC. " Intel licensed a hardware device from Hitachi about 8 or 10 months ago and I think they were working with (now defunct) Zenith as well. Even for software decoding, there is still a hardware requirement to process the transmitted signal. Re: "If such software-only decoders require the use of a P7 Willamette processor, then I can see $$$ in the long-term future of Intel on the desktop." Nobody needs a fast processor. The fastest processor that anybody needs is the whatever the top-of-the-line AMD chip has to offer. I beleive that is is 166 MHz - whoops, it's 200 Mhz - nope, maybe 233 Mhz - uh,oh it's 266 Mhz...Wowie - maybe 300 MHz.... Paul