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To: straight life who wrote (2893)	11/2/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

We're (working on? have already?- I'm pretty sure working on--)a chip which has 2 DSPs and 2 processors in the same piece of silicon ??? Did they say same piece of silicon, or the same package? I would guess it would be hard to keep yield rate up if one had 2 ARM cores plus 2 DSP's, all on the same piece of silicon. w.

To: straight life who wrote (2893)	11/2/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: qdog	Respond to of 13582

Although I'm not nor have desire to be, in the component design industry, I do keep abreast with trade rags. Single chips are the future as far as that aspect of the industry is concerned. Motorola is and will be company that is formidable in that regard. They have a broad portfolio of expertise as well. When Intel, AMD and Motorola are all and have been working on a system on a chip design for the PC, it's stands to cede the notion that they will also be moving to single chips in appliances such as cellphones, cable settop boxes that do more than just change channels, etc,etc,etc. QCOM chip maybe better for CDMAOne and CDMA2000, it isn't for the other standards that will be around for sometime into the distant future.

To: straight life who wrote (2893)	11/3/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: cfoe	Respond to of 13582

Your summary of QCOM's comments re: newly announced MOT chip fit my memory of call.. As to qdog comment in Message 11787929 that reporters vs. MOT responsible for how new chip announcement taken, I don't fully buy it. Yes reporters did write what they wrote. But if they were getting it wrong, all MOT had to do was come out and say so. MOT wanted to leave an impression and mainstream business press was (as seems usual) all to ready to oblige. Announcement, as others have pointed out, seems to have been timed to impact QCOM prior to earnings (although I cannot see what it gains them). Maybe all of this is a bit of paranoia, but MOT seems to have business press (including likes of CNBC) sucking up to them, and they use it every way they can. But hey, this is a great Q day for many, many reasons, so like the song says I "be happy."