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To: Marco Polo who wrote (62483)	6/20/1999 4:54:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574199

Margo Polio - Re: "The new $1000 computer will be "three orders of magnitude different in price-performance [ratio]" from today's PCs,...." It is based on a processor called a field programmable gate array, Gilson says. FPGAs can be programmed on the fly, so their configuration can be changed to perform the particular task at hand most efficiently. " Shucks ! Now who's gonna need those K7's with the FPGA computers ? And to think - AMD just SOLD their programmable logic division - right when that market is about to go exponential ! Paul