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Claim iNSP - Native Signal Processing wins

Category: Science & Technology:Computer Technology & Benchmarks JUDGED at 0
Owner:20
Judge:97, Loophole
created:1995/05/24
due date:1999/07/04

The Claim

At his Comdex '94 keynote Intel Corp. president and chief executive officer Andrew Grove has called for the standardization of multimedia and communications subsystems for PCs. Intel realizes that upgrading PCs for multimedia with add-in boards creates complexities for the industry. Grove stated, ``Each application ends up tied to its own hardware system, resulting in added expense and complexity for installation support.''

Intel is proposing `Native Signal Processing' (NSP), as a technique that uses spare compute cycles on the main processor to perform functions traditionally assigned to add-in cards with digital-signal processors.

Later, representatives of AMD, AT&T, Motorola all stated that Intel's NSP iniative must be resisted at all costs. AT&T Microelectronics' Curtis Crawford has said at the In-Stat conference ``I am not certain that it is in the best interest of the industry or our customers to allow everything worth doing to be done only on the microprocessor.'' There are similar statements from the other DSP producers.

Both Intel and the discrete DSP producers cannot be right.

The claim is YES if the bulk of P6- and P7-based systems are seen to use the NSP architecture as defined by Intel. The affirmation of the claim will be judged by the preponderance of the opinion of the media pundits. As necessary the opinions of market researchers (e.g. DataQuest) or industry opinion editors (in the trade press) will be invoked for the judgement.

Background:
You may do your own research on the goings-on in the trade at TechWeb

In addition to NSP you may wish to understand Intel's 3DR project. Intel is giving away the 3DR Geometry Engine pipeline for free (and allowing its royalty-free use in products). Intel promises to support 3DR. The 3DR effort can be seen to bolster the need for more and better CPUs -- and thus the NSP architecture.

The background for this claim are the various industry trade press articles describing the pros, cons, foibles and advantages of NSP. A selection follows:

RALLIES SUPPORT FOR NATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; REACTION MIXED:Intel beats NSP drum
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Mar 27, 1995, Score: 1000, Bytes: 13021
Benchmarks due defining NSP/DSP balance
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Apr 17, 1995, Score: 909, Bytes: 14173
News
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Mar 20, 1995, Score: 546, Bytes: 4583
Intel Puts Multimedia Inside -- NSP Software May Alter Add-In Card Business
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Feb 6, 1995, Score: 529, Bytes: 13801
The future of Intel's NSP
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Apr 10, 1995, Score: 523, Bytes: 4353
After the Flaw: Some doubt need for native signal processing -- Intel caught in middle of new Pentium debate
Computer Reseller News: Date: Jan 9, 1995, Score: 490, Bytes: 4002
How chips stack: What do we need? -- PowerPC outpaces Pentium at native signal processing; a VAR dilemma
Computer Reseller News: Date: Jan 23, 1995, Score: 475, Bytes: 3822
Urgent Call: Resist NSP -- AT&T Micro Exec Draws Battle Line
Electronic Buyers News: Date: May 8, 1995, Score: 474, Bytes: 5482
MPEG-1 Software Decoders A Hit -- Getting Multimedia Becomes Less Costly
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 6, 1995, Score: 433, Bytes: 9010
Intel's Grove: No DSPs Needed, Use Pentium
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Nov 21, 1994, Score: 433, Bytes: 7764
Codecs shape up for NSP
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Apr 24, 1995, Score: 429, Bytes: 4105
NSP Initiative Gets Boost
Electronic Buyers News: Date: May 1, 1995, Score: 427, Bytes: 4773
NSP challenges DSP in PC architecture--INTEL TO PUT SIGNAL PROCESSING ON CPU
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Feb 20, 1995, Score: 422, Bytes: 8042
Nefarious scheme for Pentium?
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Feb 20, 1995, Score: 401, Bytes: 4310
From the (e)-mail bag
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: May 8, 1995, Score: 394, Bytes: 4601
A broader DSP view
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Mar 13, 1995, Score: 389, Bytes: 4342
Intel Sings With QSound
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 6, 1995, Score: 388, Bytes: 3704
NATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING: Replaces multimedia add-in boards -- INTEL CHIEF TOUTS STANDARDIZATION
Computer Reseller News: Date: Nov 21, 1994, Score: 384, Bytes: 2222
Grove posits PC wonderland--AT COMDEX, INTEL CEO SEES FUTURE IN 'LOOKING GLASS' COMPUTER
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Nov 21, 1994, Score: 365, Bytes: 10327
Intel Hawks PC Architecture
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 27, 1995, Score: 348, Bytes: 5879
Intel drives Native Signal Processing
Computer Reseller News: Date: Dec 5, 1994, Score: 339, Bytes: 1976
ARCHITECTURE: Native signal processing -- Intel To Help Unveil $300 VideoConferencing Units
Computer Reseller News: Date: May 1, 1995, Score: 322, Bytes: 3161
Minimalist Macs, accelerated PCs
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Mar 13, 1995, Score: 283, Bytes: 4206
The New Commandments For Multimedia
Oem Magazine: Date: Nov 1, 1994, Score: 282, Bytes: 4199
WAVETABLE-SYNTHESIS PRODUCT AIMS AT POWERPC, PENTIUM PCs:InVision plans NSP move
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Mar 27, 1995, Score: 280, Bytes: 6597
Intel, Spectron bring IA-SPOX to Pentium
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Oct 17, 1994, Score: 278, Bytes: 3825
Faster Than A Speeding Data Link
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 20, 1995, Score: 270, Bytes: 5236
Moving DSP development past Windows
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Jul 18, 1994, Score: 261, Bytes: 9144
Pentium Primed To Move -- Intel will inaugurate native signal processing technology next year
Information Week: Date: Dec 5, 1994, Score: 260, Bytes: 3240
Phylon Telephony Software Does NSP
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Apr 3, 1995, Score: 259, Bytes: 3282
Pentium to get native signal processing
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Sep 26, 1994, Score: 239, Bytes: 3159
Intel Boosts Board Speed
Electronic Buyers News: Date: May 8, 1995, Score: 231, Bytes: 3224
Intel's Triton core signals boost for desktop Pentium
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Jan 30, 1995, Score: 228, Bytes: 6726
Viper Chip Set Aims To Sink Triton
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 27, 1995, Score: 226, Bytes: 3298
Audio IC handles 16-bit stereo and FM synthesis
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: May 8, 1995, Score: 213, Bytes: 1413
Resellers report rapid shift to Pentium-based systems
Computer Reseller News: Date: Mar 27, 1995, Score: 212, Bytes: 5074
Move to high integration, power demands strain the technology--Wireless surge gives mixed-signal a push
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Apr 3, 1995, Score: 202, Bytes: 36262
Demand Puts A Cloud Over PC Motherboards -- Quality Questions Are Raised As OEMs Push For Fast Production
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Apr 24, 1995, Score: 195, Bytes: 16077
Features jell for Pentium core-logic sets
Electronic Engineering Times: Date: Apr 3, 1995, Score: 193, Bytes: 4162
Intel's ProShare Loses To H.320 Codec
Electronic Buyers News: Date: Mar 20, 1995, Score: 190, Bytes: 2532
Query Report for this Search
Date: May 17, 1995, Score: 1, Bytes: 1306

Judge's Statement

I will judge based on the wording of the claim unless it is found to be ambiguous. Such ambiguities will be resolved based on my perception of the author's intent.

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