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To: Amy J who wrote (88973)	9/27/1999 3:43:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

GREAT NEWS.... Technology News Mon, 27 Sep 1999, 3:41am EDT Chipmakers in Taiwan Say They Expect to Return to Full Capacity This Week By Faith Hung Taiwan's Chipmakers Expect to Resume Full Production This Week Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other Taiwan chipmakers, many of which supply U.S. firms like Motorola Inc., expect to run at full capacity this week after an earthquake six days ago disrupted production. TSMC, the world's largest chipmaker to customer designs, said electric power at Hsinchu Science-based Park, home of many high-technology companies, has been fully restored since Sunday. ''Our output is recovering faster than we expected,'' said Y. C. Huang, a TSMC vice president. ''None of our clients have canceled orders because demand is at its peak for the year.'' Still, sales this month and October will fall because of the power shortage, Huang said. TSMC plan to reveal the extent of its decline in sales in ''a day or two,'' he said. Many Taiwanese manufacturers halted production Tuesday as an earthquake of at least magnitude 7.3 rattled the island, killing more than 2000 people and disrupting power supplies. TSMC said its two six-inch wafer plants and three eight-inch factories are slated to return to pre-quake production levels late this week. Up to 80 percent of the company's lines are running now, Huang said. Winbond Electronics Corp., which sells computer memory chips to Toshiba Corp., also expects to resume full production this week. ''Orders continue to flood in. We have to produce as much as our clients need,'' said Hander Chang, an assistant vice president. Chang said about half of Winbond's capacity is now operational. The fourth quarter is a traditional busy season for Taiwan's electronics makers, as U.S. computer manufacturers and retailers prepare for the Christmas shopping season. Stocks of TSMC, Winbond and other chipmakers helped drag down the main index by as much as 2.7 percent today to 7755.86, its lowest level in six weeks. TSMC and Winbond were both limit- down 3.5 percent, to NT$134.50 and NT$55.50 respectively.

To: Amy J who wrote (88973)	9/27/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Amy and thread, Article..Intel to Simplify Network Management; Collaborates with Microsoft to Develop Draft of a Common Standard... September 27, 1999 HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Intel Corporation today announced the Network Interface Services (NIS) initiative. This initiative is designed to help corporate network administrators manage increasingly complex networks by providing a common data model for management of Internet protocol security (IPSec) and Quality of Service (QoS) in network end stations. This standards-based initiative will deliver greater ease and flexibility in the management of network connections in server, desktop and mobile systems. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is currently reviewing a draft of this model, which was jointly submitted by Intel and Microsoft. "This is another example of the DMTF's industry leadership role in unifying management standards initiatives," said Jim Turner, chairman, DMTF. "We appreciate the NIS submission by Intel and Microsoft, and welcome other companies and organizations that are developing management standards and initiatives to work with the DMTF." The NIS initiative will simplify multi-vendor interoperability and provide an open data model for deploying critical network services in the end station. This standards-based approach will help pave the way for management systems to set policy for security and quality of service in a multi-vendor network. "The speed of business and current pace of innovation dictates that IT managers need a more flexible system for managing their networks," said Greg Lang, vice president and general manager, Intel's Network Interface Division. "The Internet and e-business are driving companies to demand more of their networks demands that are increasingly hard to meet given the current infrastructure. This initiative will give network administrators the ability to seamlessly add critical services in response to their company's specific needs." In addition to the flexibility of the NIS initiative, the standard initially aims to bring advanced services for Quality of Service (QoS) and security into an open management services framework. By utilizing QoS services, network managers can manage network traffic to more closely meet the needs of the organization, and security services can help protect corporate assets. "Windows 2000 and Active Directory support central policy management for IPSec and quality of service for the Windows environment," said John Frederiksen, group product manager for Windows 2000, Microsoft. "This standards proposal builds from the Windows 2000 work and is an important step toward extending this capability to other environments. Microsoft looks forward to the outcome of the DMTF effort."