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To: Elmer who wrote (83043)	6/8/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Re: "I think it's VIA" I wonder if that is why Intel filed - then withdrew - a lawsuit against VIA a few weeks ago. Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (83043)	6/8/1999 2:26:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Elmer & Intel Investors - Intel Invests in CrossRoads - a Network Storage Router company to help out its NGIO initiative. Paul {============================} Intel Invests In Storage Router Vendor Investment in Crossroads could lead to NGIO storage router (URL: crn.com By Joseph F. Kovar Austin, Texix 8:12 PM EST Mon., June 07, 1999 Servers featuring Next Generation Input/Output (NGIO) technology may be able to connect to storage area networks (SANs) early next year now that Intel has invested in a storage router vendor. SAN router manufacturer Crossroads Systems Inc., Austin, Texas, on Monday said that Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., invested in the company. The investment will be used to accelerate Crossroads' development of NGIO routers, company executives said. Intel executives would not discuss the size of the investment. Crossroads' plan is to build a router that would connect NGIO servers to non-NGIO devices, such as Fibre Channel and SCSI storage devices on a SAN, said Dale Quisenberry, Crossroads vice president. The company expects to have a prototype of such a device early next year, Quisenberry said. However, the project currently is in the planning stage. "We have no concrete information on the unit except the NGIO protocols," he said. Privately held Crossroads could be a bridge between rival camps trying to influence the development of future I/O technology. In addition to Intel, other companies holding equity stakes in the company include Hewlett-Packard Co. and Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC). Intel is working to develop NGIO along with Dell Computer Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Siemens Information Communication Network Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc. However, HP is part of a rival group, along with Adaptec Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp., and 3Com Corp. that is pushing for the adoption of a rival technology called Future I/O. On June 1, Crossroads said it had joined both the Future I/O Alliance and the Next Generation I/O Forum. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------