HP to use Motorola Microprocessor for its Interactive Set-Top Box; KAYAK to Use Motorola CPU.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 1994-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that it plans to use a Motorola microprocessor for its first-generation KAYAK System digital set-top box. One of the Motorola 68000 microprocessors will serve as the product's main CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . The KAYAK System set-top box product line will be able to provide on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. display of program guides, video-on-demand, home shopping, interactive games and other services. "We selected the Motorola 68000 family because it has an established software-developer community and software-development tools and because of its overall cost effectiveness," said Harry W. (Webb) McKinney, general manager of HP's Home Products Division. "We need to deliver a set-top box on schedule and on budget for our customers. Using the well-established Motorola microprocessors will help us do that." Earlier this year, HP selected LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Corp. to supply the digital audio/video decompression technology, Broadcom to supply a 64 QAM (1) (Quality Assessment Measurement) A system used to measure and analyze voice transmission. (2) (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) A modulation technique that employs both phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation (AM). receiver, and Integrated Systems, Inc. to supply the pSOS+ real-time embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. for the first-generation KAYAK System interactive set-top box. HP is creating electronics and hardware for two-way interactive-television services that include "smart" set-top boxes, printers and other home accessories, and video servers and computer systems for billing and tracking. HP's Home Products Division will manufacture the KAYAK System product line of "smart" set-top boxes for two-way interactive programs in the home. To date, HP has agreed to manufacture the KAYAK System set-top boxes for TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. and Comcast Corp., two of the nation's largest cable operators. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,400 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard
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