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To: wily who wrote (26262)	8/3/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

wily, Re: Death of Cyrix/Via deal. That would certainly change the landscape. Intel's need to do PC-133 would be dramatically reduced since we'd be back to the legal question of whether Via has the right to produce chips with 133Mhz front side busses. Could be tied up in courts for months. Ah, wishful thinking <G>. Dave

To: wily who wrote (26262)	8/3/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

Cyrix, NSM rumour is DEAD... Tuesday August 3 3:27 PM ET Nat'l Semiconductor's Cyrix Assets Sold To Taiwan's VIA NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taiwan's VIA Technologies, Inc. said Tuesday it had reached a definitive deal with U.S. chip maker National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM - news) to buy the assets of National's money-losing Cyrix PC processor business for $167 million. VIA, one of the leading chip suppliers for the PC industry, said part of the sale price was payable at the close of the deal in about one month, with the remainder contingent on future revenues of the Cyrix product line. The two companies signed a letter of intent for the sale on June 30. The sale includes the MII x86-compatible processor and successor products, but National Semiconductor will retain the integrated MediaGX processor which forms the core of its new Geode system for the emerging Information Appliance market. The Cyrix PC processor line was designed to compete with Intel Corp.'s (Nasdaq:INTC - news) line of Pentium computer chips, which form the guts of the vast majority of the world's personal computers. Most of the assets involved are located in Richardson, Texas with others in Arlington, Texas, Mesa, Ariz., and Santa Clara, Calif., and some manufacturing assets in Singapore. Santa Clara-based National has annual sales of $2 billion and approximately 11,000 employees worldwide. Earlier Stories Nat'l Semiconductor's Cyrix Assets Sold (August 3)