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Technology Stocks : ADI: The SHARCs are circling! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (1219)	2/9/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

Jim, Maybe you are right about the first attempt on the intention of this MMX. I looked at this MMX thing and could not figure out why it has to be confined only to the graphics applications, although for a PC, the biggest DSP usage would conceivably in the video graphics arena. The next advancement in software technology after graphics is speech recognition. Wouldn't that be wonder if the MMX can do FFT all by itself? Or perhaps even better, a Hidden-Markov stuff? So MMX (in my opinion) is an attempt by Intel to incorporate a DSP into the already union of traditional CPU and math coprocessor. This added pseudo-DSP is still very inept and overlaps frequently with the math coprocessor. The long term solution is still to incorporate a decent DSP into the already existed CPU and the math coprocessor. A true DSP besides L2 cache is the only thing missing inside such a powerful processor. Both TI and Lucent have more powerful DSPs, as I am informed, than ADI. Since Intel never takes quantum jumps on any advancement, a mundane fixed point DSP just will do. There is no need for sophisticated floating point DSPs with all the bell and whistles for now. Time Traveler