CD-ROM: What went wrong?

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CD-ROM publishing, generally speaking, has failed to live up to its promise, and the business model continues to fail for all but the largest publishing and distribution companies. At first, commercial CD-ROM seemed to represent the glamorous pinnacle of interactive efforts, and multimedia developers produced innovative entertainment ranging from hypertext novels and interactive movies to definitive reference works. But few general-interest titles are selling well, and some varieties, such as reference works, now seem more appropriate on Web sites, where they can provide a needed service for a community of users while being easy to keep up to date. Some industry observers believe the evolving CD-ROM business model may not be as flawed as it appears. They say it favors larger publishers and will eventually find its place.

Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, CD-ROM disks, CD-ROM Technology

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New chips speed multimedia

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Intel begins shipping the $636 233MHz, $775 266MHz and a limited number of $1,981 300MHz Pentium II microprocessors. The Pentium II is basically a faster version of the soon-to-be-obsoleted Pentium Pro with MMX extensions added to accelerate multimedia performance. Like the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II has a closely coupled L2 cache, dual-bus processor and 32-bit memory pipeline. AMD's K6 and Cyrix's M2 are shipping MMX-enabled CPUs that cost less than comparable Pentium Pros. Intel plans to ship 400MHz or faster Pentium IIs by mid-1998, when the company's next-generation CPU, code-named Merced, debuts. That processor, which is being co-developed with HP, will use an entirely new very long instruction word (VLIW) design. Merced is expected to have a clock rate of at least 600MHz.

Computer hardware, Microprocessor, Product introduction, CPUs (Central processing units), Product Announcement, Intel Corp., INTC, Hardware product introduction, Intel Pentium Pro (Microprocessor)

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