Austin, Texas – Cirrus Logic has launched a music processor chip that's said to enable compressed-music players packed with upwards of 20 hours of content to retail for less than $50. Its programmable ...

Single-chip digital music player IC implements a proprietary DSP optimized for audio and an 8-bit 8051 core for the man-machine interface; consumes less than 35 mA for a complete player; supports MP3, ...

Your new CD-ROM-capable computer not only is a bodacious word processor but also a marvelous music processor. Reflect a moment on some of the implications. You load a program into your machine that ...