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Jeff Bier's Impulse Response – Stuck in the Past By Jeff Bier, 2/7/2004 Vendors announcing new signal-processing chips tend to brag about the clock speed of the processor core, just as they did ten years ago. (More)

TI Moves 'C64x to 90 Nanometers, 1 GHz By BDTI, 2/7/2004 Texas Instruments announced in January that it has migrated its high-performance fixed-point DSP architecture, the TMS320C64x, to a 90 nanometer process. (More)

Analog Devices Introduces Eight New Blackfin Chips By BDTI, 2/7/2004 Analog Devices announced that it is significantly expanding its lineup of Blackfin DSP chips by adding eight new members to the family. (Blackfin is Analog Devices' low-power, dual-MAC, 16-bit fixed-point architecture. (More)

Case Study – Technical Due Diligence By BDTI, 2/7/2004 A thorough assessment of a DSP core vendor includes a careful evaluation of the company's architecture, implementation, development tools, personnel, and market strategy. (More)