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To: Goutam who wrote (75150)	10/12/1999 12:01:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1573682

theregister.co.uk ______________ SiS licenses Rise x86 technology Taiwanese chipset company SiS has licensed a whole raft of x86 technology from Rise, to help it grow its integrated solutions business. SiS, like Via, is a competitor to Intel in the chipset business. The licence deal means Rise is in a better state to continue developing technology, while it gives SiS more ammunition to better fight its chipset corner. Yesterday, we reported that Rise had not given up the ghost on its x86 family, but that it needed an injection of cash to keep it moving. SiS has its own fabrication plant, and also has a cross-licensing deal with Intel for the chip giant's P6 technology. No financial details of the deal between SiS and Rise were disclosed. © theregister.co.uk ______________ Goutama

To: Goutam who wrote (75150)	10/12/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Goutama, <Price lists seen by The Register show that there is not a great deal of price difference between a Coppermine Xeon and a Coppermine Pentium III. > <Hmm... if true; is Intel going for some kind of strange segmentation/differentiation, or is it to create customer confusion? > Not necessarily - the price list, if true, is comparing Cumine-256 with Cascades-512. The larger cache versions will probably be significantly higher. Given that the differentiation between half-speed/full-speed will disappear with built-in cache, I was suspecting something like this will happen for the price delta. But, I gotto admit, this delta is smaller than I expected. Competition effects on pricing I guess. Chuck