CHIP MARKET STILL STRONG DESPITE ANALYSTS' PESSIMISM.
Recent analysts have concluded that a peak has been reached in the semiconductor chip manufacturing cycle but manufacturers disagree.
Texas Instruments' CFO See Chief Financial Officer. William Aylesworth sees a continued strong market for their product through the next year and one-half. He also indicated that a recent drop in demand from makers of disk drive for TI's digital signal processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
- Designed for real-time processing
appears to have turned around. This is the market that utilizes digital signal processors (DSPs), TI's most significant product. DSPs are used in broadband products such as high speed modems, and this area represented the fastest area of growth for TI. DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive chips which are used in wireless phones also require analog chips An analog chip is a set of miniature electronic analog circuits formed on a single piece of semiconductor material.
The circuits in analog chips operate with voltage and current varying in a continuous fashion; in contrast, digital chips only use and create voltages , and TI is moving to increase its factory capacity for their manufacturing.
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