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To: gdichaz who wrote (35494)	7/17/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Chaz - All of this movement toward a single chip with LEGO parts is very very interesting IMO. The really odd thing about all of this publicity is that nothing in this is particularly revolutionary: 1) Standardized blocks (LEGO, as you descriptively put it) have been the modus operandi for ASIC manufacturers for a long time. It is the only logical way to effectively compete. 2) Systems on a chip - again nothing magic here that I can see(although this is a little outside my expertise). Remember when microprocessors had a separate math processor, an off-chip cache, multiple I/O chips, ... . With the next generation of MSM, Qualcomm will probably have something that looks pretty much like a system on a chip. Thus, I've never understood all of the excitement, and I have always wondered what it is that NSM has that is supposed to be so special ( maybe they do have something special, but if so it isn't clear to me what it is). However, this is more engineer's field than mine. Maybe he knows of something that makes some systems-on-a-chip or parts thereof more difficult than others and will comment. Clark