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To: Joe Copia who wrote (6623)	7/2/1999 9:43:00 AM
From: Steve Cox	Respond to of 8581

EXCELLENT PTSC post from Raging Bull: bksd / ALL -- I researched the article you referred me too concerning the Genroco/Ciprico Storage Subsystem. What I found interesting was the ST protocol being utilized for data/video/voice transmission. the protocol is designed to transmit information when "buffer" levels on both ends are met. This reduces the amount of "lost" time/data due to errors in the protocol transmision of data. TCP/IP is prone to send packets of data across networks in multiple levels of data bundels. Specifically, the PSC1000 Microprocessor is designed to increase performance and lower cost of program execution. The PSC1000 beats out the competition because they are able to achieve their results by REDUCING the number of operand bits. Now, that is important because by eliminating redundant bits in the instructions. This is EXTREMEMLY BENEFICIAL for performance by the decreasing the program size. And, it allows for a greater bandwidth size. Remember when I told you about why bandwidth is so important? The convergence of voice/video/data across digital networks NEED a way to increase bandwidth capacity over exisiting infrastructures. Ok .. so this is accomplished in 1 of 2 ways -- You can build networks which have the capability to increase bandwidth size or you can find a way to transmit information in a more efficient format. Companies i.e. Lucent have gone the former route. Lucent recently purchased Nexabit for the sole reason of having a solution of increasing network bandwidth capacity by a design which is optimal for voice/video/data transmission. TellLabs, as of tpday 7/1, purcahsed a company as well which has designed a solution to the same. The other alternative would be to find a more efficient way of transmitting voice/video/data utilzing the exisiting network infrastrucutre. Hence, the PSC1000 chip. Now , Ciprico stated that "high speed storage is important to many of Ciprico's Geospatial Imaging customers." The high speed storage solution they have developed here will save "...time and money with fiel storage and retrieval...". So ... why would Imaging companies benefit here? Companies which utilize imaging on the Inet transmit files around with LARGE BYTE SIZES. They also execute on Image files with LARGE BYTE SIZES. See the connection? Patriot has a chip which REDUCES the size of programs and files by ELIMINATING redundant bits. Thus, you have a SMALLER stack size of instructions. Now, the JVM implementation which Patriot has developed for the PSC1000 is beneficial because Java is designed to run on a STACK ORIENATED ARCHITECTURE. Thus, the PSC1000 REDUCES BYTES, OPTIMIZES INSTRUCTION SETS, AND EXECUTES MORE JAVA BYTE CODES IN 1 INSTRUCTION SET PER CLOCK CYCLE! - J

To: Joe Copia who wrote (6623)	7/2/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: Steve Cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

Another great post from RB: agiledit - I am not an employee of Patriot, I am simply a very long term investor and have owned stock in the company for several years now. As far as Sun buying the company I would suppose at some point that would be a possibility. My guess is at this point they would want us to do all of the technical work on the chip and improve its pedigree first. They may also be waiting to see if the embedded java market will support such an acquisition. Remember they have already spent (and lost) millions on the R&D relating to their own java chip, the PicoJava. I can tell you they are well aware of our technology and are in fact using it in their JINI development boards. Whether this will lead to an eventual buy out or equity position is anyone's guess. One more factor to consider is that several corporations such as IBM, Fujitsu, and LG Semicon have licensed the core of their picoJava design in the hopes of creating their own version of the chip. This has not happened but they may want to wait a bit to see if anyone is able to successfully put their implementation in silicon. IMHO it will never happen because they have already lost the game before it began. The PSC1000 not only implements java natively but is less than half the price with much more functionality. Our design is actually a multi-purpose processor optimized for C, C++, and FORTH (all object oriented languages), something the original pico was not designed to do. Other than scaling down the size of the chip from .5u to .35u and eventually .25u and adding some cache, there probably isn't a whole lot left to do to make it faster or more functional. We have a winner here, we just have to be patient and wait for the market to play catch up. I did it with EDIG and I will do it with PTSC. Cheers.