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Microsoft Announces New Windows Media Support Among Leading Audio Chip Makers | |
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| Time: 06:10 EST/11:10 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted By: Julien Jay | ||
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At Streaming Media Japan 2002 today, Microsoft Corp. announced that leading audio chip makers MCS Logic Inc., MediaTek Inc., NEC Corp., Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., SigmaTel Inc., Sunplus Technology Company Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. are licensing Microsoft Windows Media Format for use in their audio chip products. These chips, ready-made with Windows Media Audio (WMA), will be used in a wide range of devices, including CD players, car stereos, portable audio players and wireless handsets by a number of manufacturers in the coming year. Today's announcement further accelerates the wide-scale adoption of Windows Media by a broad range of chip makers and consumer device manufacturers. More than 120 device types are now supporting Windows Media. Microsoft projects that the worldwide installed base of consumer devices supporting Windows Media will reach 27 million by the end of 2002. These devices range from DVD players and CD players to portable music players, PDAs, gaming devices and mobile handsets. | ||
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