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To: Process Boy who wrote (81027)	5/17/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

PB, No need to be concerned about the K7 chipset. There is one available now. AMD will use the Irongate chipset for the first few months, while the Taiwanese vendors develop solutions for motherboards. ViA and ALI are likely to be first off the mark, with chipsets available in the fourth quarter of 1999. Scumbria

To: Process Boy who wrote (81027)	5/17/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

AOL TV Set Top Boxes (one with Intel, one with NSM): 1) AOL's Philips (MedaGX chip) 2) AOL's Hughes Powered (Intel's chip) Both use: iGST CyberPro 5000 Streaming Media Processor chip CyberPro 5000, the "only" streaming media chip which operates on both (NSM + Intel) processors. Note: This post is about AOL's STB, which is unrelated to my previous post #81027 on AOL's Internet Appliance. AOL is on a mission. Amy J From prnewswire.com via newsedge.com SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- Following yesterday's AOL set top box announcements, iGS Technologies, Inc. (iGST) today announced the design of its CyberPro(TM) 5000 streaming media post processor in set top box solutions from Philips Electronics and Hughes Network Systems for AOL TV. The CyberPro 5000 is the ONLY streaming media chip that is designed into both set top boxes, one by Philips and the other by Hughes and it provides internet, graphics, video and streaming media processing with TV output in both set top boxes. The FlexiBus(TM) CPU interface provides the direct microprocessor interface that allows different CPU or microprocessor to be designed into a set top box as is the case with Philips and Hughes. The TVNavigator browser and user interface programming were done by NCI. "As the pioneer of streaming media capabilities for Internet appliances and set-top boxes, iGST is the industry leader ...experience to television viewing," ....time-to-market, feature-rich options and cost savings that our CyberPro family provides to set top box vendors which use different microprocssors in their set top boxes." The CyberPro 5000 is the industry's only streaming media solution that currently provides a fully-integrated MPEG streaming media post processor with 64-bit 2D or 3D graphics and a full range of flexible TV output options. The CyberPro 5000 processor features enhanced FlexiBus(TM) direct interface to RISC and x86 CPUs and TVDirect, which allows for flicker-free support for all worldwide formats plus enhanced 21-Tap independently scaleable YUV low pass filter for optimal TV output and 10-bit TV DACS for broadcast video quality. Other features include enhanced FlexVideo, VideoDirect pass through of broadcast/live video without frame buffer overhead, FlexAlpha efficient hardware-based blending for video-on-video, video-on-graphics or graphics-on-video, 64-bit 2D Graphics Acceleration on-chip and integrated Audio and SoftModem functions. iGS Technologies, Inc., was founded in 1993 to develop leading edge streaming media component solutions for emerging markets including set-top boxes and information appliances.