tommyd@cs.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Dimitri) (11/17/89)
I just came back from COMDEX in Las Vegas where Intel was proudly displaying the i486, i960, and i860. Along with this, DVI (Digital Video Interface) seemed to be Intel's key into multi-media. The i750 chip has the ability to due video and sound compression at an astounding 60:1 compression rate. Fast enough for on the fly compression and decompression. It does this by having the programmer write the ucode for the i750. Of course, the involves a complex compiler since optimization is tricky, but nonetheless, the i750 takes this ucode and pops it into another chip which holds the ucode for the i750 to use. Is this new technology? Where have we been able to write real ucode for a chip before? I know RTL code was written for the NOVA, but this is MUCH different. Any thoughts on DVI and where its going? -Thomas J. Dimitri tommyd@cs.arizona.edu