>When the original prediction was made DSPs did not exist yet. I would
>guess there might be two DSP markets, one like 1) (high volume
>production, engineering cost does not matter that much, think modem
>cards), another like 2) (lower volumes, much engineering effort, I have
>worked on military communications gear where the DSP would fall in this
>category). Or maybe DSP market is still young, so the split has yet to
>happen.

I would have said the DSP market has matured fairly well in the last couple
of years - think cell phones with speech recognition etc.

But DSP's fit into an area that has rather different processing requirements
to those provided by "conventional" processors.

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