Intel Corp is holding back on Native Signal Processing on its Pentium and P6 chips, saying the capability is delayed six months after Microsoft Corp and some hardware companies raised objections. The plans ran into resistance at Microsoft because it conflicts with some new specifications Microsoft is proposing. The first form of the Native Signal Processing technology also was aimed at Windows 3.1, and Microsoft and other hardware makers are trying to adapt their technologies for Windows95. Intel has now been persuaded to push back the schedule for Native Signal Processing which had expected to begin appearing on computers this quarter, and it now won’t appear until the first quarter of 1996. And Intel and the Spectrum Microsystems Inc unit of Dialogic Corp, which is supplying its IA-SPOX real-time signal processing operating system kernel, have agreed to tailor their technologies for Windows95. According to Electrical Engineering Times, Microsoft has virtually ordered applications developers not to use the I A-SPOX services. Signs of trouble surfaced early this year, it says, when it became clear that Intel and Microsoft were proceeding in different directions on application programming interfaces for signal processing applications, and it came out into the open in the spring at the Microsoft Windows95 Games Developers Conference, when Microsoft speakers are said to have told developers it would be inadvisable to use Native Signal Processing services in their applications.
