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    18-Jun-90  20:06:32
Sb: Motorola Supports CD-I
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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(edited) LONDON - Motorola Semiconductor Products Monday announced their intent
to provide CD-I silicon chip sets to hardware manufacturers worldwide. This
latest development coincides with the Multimedia Conference on Interactive CD
hosted by  Philips, Sony, Matsushita and Polygram.
   The chip set includes the MC68340 32-bit microprocessor, a highly integrated
solution for graphics applications, plus dedicated still video and video
processing devices.  A part of this set is a full screen, full motion
decompression processor for the CD-I standard.
   By providing a global source of high quality silicon, Motorola aims to ease
the development of hardware products conforming to the CD-I standard. This will
accelerate the acceptance of CD-I as a Multimedia standard and add momentum to
its rate of growth as the next major consumer product innovation.
   Availability of this revolutionary video processing device is timed to
coincide with major CD-I equipment launches in 1991. More details will be made
available following the meeting of the MPEG committee in September 1990. (MPEG
- The Motion Picture Experts Group is a joint ISO/CCITT standard committee,
tasked with defining a global standard for video compression.)
   Over 100 companies have signed up to support CD-I, the majority of them
developing the innovative software titles which will drive consumer and pro
usage. Motorola will be assisting Philips IMS and their partners to realize
CD-I as a global success in consumer electronics and Multimedia computing.
   Based on this latest announcement, the hardware companies will be able to
accelerate their product developments, while guaranteeing conformance to the
standard.  This standardization is critical for such a global consumer product,
guaranteeing that any disk bought anywhere in the world will play on any
manufacturer's hardware.