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To: Peter V who wrote (41035)	5/13/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Streaming media chip from iGST to be used in Philips' and Hughes' boxes for AOL TV A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 1:30 p.m. EST/10:30 a.m., PST, 5/13/99 SANTA CLARA, Calif.. -- Following the announcement Tuesday that Philips Electronics will build set-top boxes using a Cyrix microprocessor from National Semiconductor Corp. for AOL TV, iGS Technologies Inc. here weighed in with its own chip for the service being developed by America Online Inc. iGST's CyberPro 5000 streaming media postprocessor will be incorporated in set-top box solutions from both Philips Electronics and Hughes Network Systems for AOL TV. The CyberPro 5000 provides a fully-integrated MPEG streaming media postprocessor with 64-bit 2-D or 3-D graphics for Internet, video and streaming media processing with TV output. Its FlexiBus CPU interface provides a direct microprocessor interface that allows different CPUs or microprocessors to be designed into a set-top box, as is the case with Philips and Hughes. "Our relationships with vendors such as Hughes Network Systems and Philips is a testimonial to the time-to-market, feature-rich options, and cost savings that our CyberPro family provides to set-top box vendors which use different microprocssors," said Mike Raghavan, senior director of marketing at iGS Technologies. AOL, of Dulles, Va., announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with Philips, Network Computer Inc, Hughes Networking Systems, and DirecTV, a digital- satellite television unit of Hughes Electronics Corp. of El Segundo, Calif. (see May 11 story). Hughes Network Systems will design and build the set-top receiver for the DirectTV service for AOL TV, while Philips Electronics will provide the terrestrial counterpart. Hughes' set-top box will use a Pentium chip set from Intel Corp., according to Fritz Stolzenbach of Hughes Network Systems in Germantown, Md.