Analog and Intel to Jointly Develop DSP Technology

-- Semiconductor International, 3/1/1999

Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Analog Devices (Norwood, Mass.) announced a joint agreement to design a digital signal processor (DSP) core architecture. They plan to develop a fixed-point, low-power DSP core for processing video, image, voice and data in emerging embedded communication and computing devices.

Intel and Analog Devices will combine design engineering teams from both companies into a joint design group located primarily in Austin, Texas. The team will be dedicated to the design of a DSP core, programmers' tools and algorithms necessary to proliferate third-party development and OEM adoption in vertical and general-purpose markets.

The first core design is expected to be completed in the second half of 2000. The companies will collaborate on the core design and separately market and sell products based on the design.