> (you say) $50 to include it in a computer. The issue though is that
> you can apparently include a CPU that is sufficiently powerful enough
> to do HSP and not have to pay for the DSP on the modem. How can this
> be? How can Intel, AMD, whoever produce a CPU that is so powerful yet
> so cheap that it makes more sense, economically, to move the 'SP
> functions from a dedicated DSP chip inside the host CPU? The answer is
> simple, the DSP chip vendors are charging way too much for their
> products. When one technology (generic function CPU) can perform the
> work of another (special function DSP's) at a lower cost overhead it is
> obvious, from a capitalist supply and demand viewpoint, that the DSP
> vendors are overcharging.
Or that the DSP vendors prices reflect their costs, in which case the
obvious solution is to ditch the DSP and move the DSP functions onto
the main CPU.
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