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To: straight life who wrote (8300)	10/14/1999 3:51:00 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

>> Am I missing something? That's why God created attorneys, SL. And intc isn't anxious to go through the same doj process as msft. In fact, they quickly apologised and settled with the doj last year when they were put under the microscope. Think IPR; Q's got lots of it <g>. uf

To: straight life who wrote (8300)	10/14/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Peter Sherman	Respond to of 54805

only TSM and IBM are foundries to QCOM at this time

To: straight life who wrote (8300)	10/14/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: pann1128	Respond to of 54805

Doesn't INTC serve as QCOM's foundry? So, theoretically INTC knows all about QCOM's ASICs, as they build them. Now they'll be a competitor, trying to build better ASICs than Q. Am I the only one that sees a problem here, what with trade secrets possessed by a competitor, and like issues? Am I missing something? Building a chip in the fab and knowing the logic and circuit design are two totally different things. The CDMA algorithms, logic design are not revealed to the manufacturer. Only the layout masks are given. This is absolutely a non-issue.