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News Burst: Cirrus-ly powerful audio chips

Dave Wilby ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 28 Sep 1999 11:23 BST

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Today's joint announcement from Microsoft and Cirrus Logic to further develop next-generation portable music devices will inevitably fuel more debate over the benefits of Windows Media audio (WMA) over MP3.

But it is Cirrus' development of its new Maverick System-on-Chip (SOC) silicon that is the real marvel of the initiative, a small, but powerful, processing engine that promises to combine nth-degree integration with Pentium 100MHz-level performance to turbocharge the next wave of handheld audio players.

Cirrus re-wrote the processing rulebook with its strategy of developing market-specific chips, but exactly how has it managed to squeeze so much performance out of its latest flagship audio SOCs?

Full story to follow.

Take me to the MP3 Special.

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