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To: thereinman who wrote (4027)	2/21/2000 2:26:00 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) of 5195

Vyyo is worth following to see if it will do another Tropian (developer of multiple-mode chipsets). Note that PDC is a variant of TDMA that has a bifurcated royalty structure -- Japan and ROW (rest of the world). However, Intel faces a problem: Nearly 75% of DSPC's chipset business revolves around PDC, a proprietary cell-phone standard in Japan that is being gradually replaced there by a third-generation standard called Wideband-CDMA. Last year, DSPC announced a 3G chipset based on a competing standard called cdma2000. But it's unclear whether Intel will continue to sell the cdma2000 chip or push W-CDMA. "We'll continue to focus on Japan [with PDC], but we need to expand into other areas," Smith said. "We're looking at 3G. There's a lot of complex issues involving IP. So we're not ready to make any announcements." But, overall, Intel remains upbeat about DSPC, despite some of the early problems. "The core engineers [from DSPC] are still here," Smith said. "Things are going as planned."

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