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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (81219)	5/19/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: Shahen Petrosian	Respond to of 186894

> C-Cube's expertise in the underlying compression technology, known as Motion Picture Experts Group 2 (MPEG2). You keep hyping CUBE's encryption technology while downplaying the need for more powerful CPUs such as PIII. In fact higher processing power of the faster PII and PIII CPUs makes specialized chips such as MPEG2 encryption chips obsolete by allowing software emulators to replace them. On my old Pentium 133 I needed a hardware card in order to view DVD movies. Software DVD players on current fast PII and PIII systems do the job just as well. I don't think Intel is particularly interested in furthering the cause of specialized chips like CUBE. On the other hand software emulators that can emulate such chips are creating a need for higher speed CPUs. This in turn will bring the cost of PCs down while maintaining a need for higher power CPUs and healthy margins for Intel. Set-top boxes and consoles which are not governed by OS are a different story for now but there's a battle between Windows CE and Java over these boxes. Once they are governed by software OS the same will apply to them as well. Shahen.