DISCUSSION SESSIONS

FE6 - How Will Media Signal Processors Dominate the Next Decade? -- (Salon 7)

Multimedia data types for the mass market continue to proliferate. In the PC market, can media processors and/or the host CPU offer sufficient power to edge out fixed-function ASICs? How long will the host CPU of the PC require additional multimedia acceleration? What media processor architectures best suit the needs of consumer electronics devices? Will these be dramatically different from those of PCs? What are the architectural and cost issues surrounding ease of programming?

Panel:

K. Guttag, Texas Instruments, Plano, TX
D. Patterson, University of California at Berkeley, CA
B. Prasad, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
S. Purcell, Chromatic Research, Sunnyvale, CA
T. Sakurai, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
F. Sijstermans, Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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