Technology Industry
Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFlood of JPEG products starting. (JPEG standard; includes a related article on the Mac and one on the JPEG standard)
EDN, June, 1991 by Wilson, Andrew C.
ANAHEIM, CA--Image compression technology, long plagued by a hodgepodge of proprietary implementations, received a boost towards standardization at Imaging/West '91 as vendors introduced a large number of hardware and software products that support the JPEG standard. Within the hardware camp, boards using general purpose digital signal processors (DSP) seem to be preferred over those which used dedicated compression chips.
Those who opted for DSP solutions tended toward multiple chip implementations. Software-only approaches, and there were plenty at the show, are less expensive than hardware compression and are flexible. However, performance depends on the speed of the host CPU for performance. Specialized boards and chips generally process images...
CXO UnpluggedSmart Business interviews on BNET
See and hear how senior level executives across the Asia Pacific are developing smart business ideas across a variety of sectors. The focus is on the future, and on how businesses need to evolve.
Brought to you by CBS MoneyWatch.com
- Best- and Worst-Paid College Degrees
- 6 Things You Should Never Do on Twitter or Facebook
- How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
- 6 Big Myths about Gas Mileage
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
