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To: joe who wrote (18022)	6/23/1998 11:21:00 PM
From: Igor	Read Replies (1) of 45548

>>...NIC market drying up because its functions would be integrated more and more into chips. True?<< Another Reason: Intel is under pressure to manufacture cheaper processor for fast dropping pc prices. Integrating Ethernet function into the central processor does not make it cheaper. Even if you integrate ethernet into to main processor you will need microcode and device drivers. That is where the brains and value of Ethernet is. Also intel runs the risk of impacting the reputation of Pentium or their next generation of processors in case they run into bugs with Ethernet subsystem. And people don't want to discard their pc's to catch up with technology upgrades in Ethernet/networking (Fast and Gigabit).

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