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To: Mo Chips who wrote (1648)	6/5/1996 1:35:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	of 186894

Mo - Intel and TI are competitors. Intel invests heavily in their own FAB process development and are probably further along with a 0.25 micron process than TI is (please note - TI's pre-announced process was a .25 micron process,that is drawn dimensions, with an leffective of 0.18 micron). I suspect that Intel's MMX Pentium will come out of the shoot on this new .25 micron process at the end of this year or early 1997. Remember, Intel rolled their .35 micron process into production in early to mid 1995 so they are well down the learning curve. Once their Technology Development group transfers a process to production, the majority of their development team move onto the next generation process. More than likely, they have two devolpment teams working simultaneously - one working on the next generation process (.25 micron in this case) and the second working on a process TWO generations ahead, or about 0,18 micron DRAWN dimension, in this case. Don't forget - TI's preannounced process was for ASIC's - devices designed by their customers (TI) but fabricated by TI. No mention of TI's own design/product for this process were made in the press releases I read. The MMX instructions do precisely what you implied. They execute new instructions that are very similar to what Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) do. One example is a multiply/accumulate instruction which is a basic operation in algorithms for multimedia sound and MPEG-1 Video decompression. The Pentium MMX is still doing digital processing. It will still require analog chips such as Analog to Digital Converters and others as front ends for the Pentium MMX. Cirrus has a subsidary Crystal Semiconductor which makes some excellent Analog chips (A-D, D-A). These may end up on motherboards with Pentium MMX devices. TI, which is itself is the major player in DSP chips, has the most to lose. Paul Engel

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