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To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (32944)	7/15/1999 6:27:00 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

i liked this part... >>Mr. Yomtov, meanwhile, expects the next version of his chip to be ready in six months. "I know that Intel will come after us," he says. "I think better under pressure."<< that pressure he is feeling may be called timna, intel's recently announced chip with similar features. timna of course will support rambus and is due next year. unclewest

To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (32944)	7/15/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Robert - " the development of the Geode SC1400, as it is called, may be a pyrrhic victory for National Semiconductor's chief executive officer, Brian Halla, and his chief lieutenant on the project, Israeli engineer Sidi Yomtov. The chip comes too late to rescue National Semiconductor, based in Santa Clara, Calif., from the price-cutting war it waged and lost to Intel Corp. In May, Mr. Halla admitted defeat and announced that his company would sell its Cyrix PC microprocessor unit " Paul