IBM Gets a Lift In Amsterdam.(Canal Plus uses IBM's set top box chip)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, September, 2000 by ILER, DAVID
IBM Corp.'s set-top-box silicon, introduced in March, was recently featured in a key demonstration at the International Broadcast Conference 2000 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, boosting the "PowerPC" chip architecture as a contender in the competitive set-top silicon market. The PowerPC chips and evaluation kit were used to demonstrate new features of Canal Plus S.A.'s "Mediahighway" middleware, including personal-video-recording capability.
"I think this is huge," said Jay Srivasta, senior analyst with Gartner Group Inc.'s Dataquest. "Canal Plus has used other silicon typically in the past. If this is any indication that they will use PowerPC chips in their set-tops with Mediahighway, that's very big for IBM." But a Canal Plus spokesman pointed...
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