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To: Cooters who wrote (4742)	1/2/2000 12:10:00 AM
From: lkj	Respond to of 13582

Cooters, DSPs from TI are going to blow away any DSP extension by ARM. The only reason ARM added DSP extension was to sell more ARM cores; DSP is not ARM's strength. My reasoning for acquiring TI is very different from your suggestion of acquiring ARM. If we buy ARM, we will be strengthening our IP business, which may lead us one step closer to exiting the ASIC business. We should buy TI, so we can become the most dominating semiconductor company in the world. Take a look at the competition two years down the road, Philips, Intel, and Motorola. We need to get big and get big fast to maintain our lead. TI's DSP/Analog/GSM/fabs help us to achieve this goal. (For the same argument, ADI or CNXT are possibilities, but I like TI the most.) Khan Ramsey, can this be part of the 3rd leg?