Mitsubishi doesn't think your camcorder is small enough. The company is now working on a single-chip MPEG-2 encoder with 64 Mbits of embedded DRAM. The 12-million transistor chip integrates two banks of 32-Mbit DRAM, 1.2 Mbits of data buffer SRAM, and Mitsubishi's 32-bit D90V media processor core. Mitsubishi says the chip is capable of encoding 422P@ML video, and can be configured into a six-chip HDTV encoding module the size of a PC Card. The chip can also process two channels of Dolby digital, two channels of MPEG-1 Layer 2, and two channels of PCM video in both NTSC and PAL formats. Samples of the chip should arrive sometime in 2002, but Mitsubishi isn't sure when it will be mass produced. More info can be found on EETimes.com .