McGinn had the semiconductor group dump commodity chips in favor of digital signal processors.
It makes digital signal processors, analog and mixed-signal circuits and algorithms for voice isolation and noise suppression.
Texas Instruments credits him with helping that smorgasbord chipmaker further refine its focus on digital signal processors in 1997.
Embedded Processing products, which were responsible for 14% of 2009 revenues, consist of digital signal processors (DSPs) and microcontrollers.
Texas Instruments credits the strategist with helping the smorgasbord chipmaker further refine its focus on digital signal processors in 1997.
These short-term assignments must get done fast--designing filter algorithms for digital signal processors, say, or writing software for Internet-based phone calls.
One of his favorite stocks is Trident Microsystems, which last week unveiled its second-generation digital video processors for HDTV, at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.
The idea here is that IDT's switches will offload tasks that take up a lot of bandwidth from the digital signal processors, thus improving bandwidth performance by up to 20%.
ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.
When the K7's on-chip 128KB L1 cache becomes too small, the K7 will call on the 200-MHz EV6 bus developed for Digital's Alpha processors.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chipsets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
Traditional RISC processors can handle digital signal processing tasks, but the additional work sucks up valuable processing power that could be used elsewhere, said David Pelavin, product marketing manager for Hitachi's SuperH product family.
Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has a bold plan that could hollow video game consoles out, and place the powerful graphics processors used to power immersive digital experiences into the cloud.
In the last quarter, ARM earned royalties on 1.5 billion processors and its unit growth in mobile, digital TV and storage increased more than double the rate of industry growth.
In addition, IBM will upgrade its ThinkPad 600x models with the new processors and introduce a new model with changes to digital video disc and video.
In its complaint, the FTC said Intel harmed competition when it stopped providing samples of upcoming Pentium chips to three companies that rely on the processors to build Intel-based systems -- Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp. (which was acquired by Compaq last year) and Intergraph Corp.
The bearer nature of these digital instruments like the cryptocurrency bitcoin will keep transaction costs low by eliminating third-party processors and counter-party risk.
Press the green button with the little flag and you'll be propelled into a world of expensive sophisticated dual core processors, pricey aluminum enclosures with vacuum fluorescent displays, redundant functionality and slowly evolving integration with digital cable and satellite.
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