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To: Kayaker who wrote (5282)	1/16/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Seimens, imho. eom.

To: Kayaker who wrote (5282)	1/16/2000 7:33:00 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Transmeta Corp., one of Silicon Valley's most secretive startup companies, is about to come out of hiding this week with a new processor for mobile computing devices that sources said has a novel approach to chip design. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which has been as reclusive as author J.D. Salinger since the firm's founding four years ago, will finally unwrap the mystery surrounding its much-anticipated Crusoe chip at a press conference on Wednesday in Saratoga, Calif. Semiconductor industry sources who asked not to be named said that the Crusoe chip represents a fundamental change in the Internet-based world of computing. The sources, which include industry analysts, said that the Crusoe chip will initially be aimed at notebook computers and Internet appliances, but it can ultimately be used in cell phones and other devices. ''It's a not-to-be missed event,'' said Mark Edelstone, a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst who follows the semiconductor industry. ''The information that has leaked out suggests that they are working on some pretty interesting technology.'' The company was founded in 1995 by David Ditzel, who is well known in the semiconductor industry as a key architect of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) SPARC processor family and as a former engineer at Bell Laboratories. He has long been working on chips that use so-called reduced instruction set computing (RISC) technology, which reduces the complexity of computer chips by using simpler instructions. Sun's SPARC is a RISC processor. Transmeta is funded by some heavy-hitting investors, including Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) co-founder Paul Allen, billionaire investor George Soros, venture capital firms Institutional Venture Partners, Integral Capital Partners, Tudor Investments and others. Industry sources said that the company has received more than $100 million in several VC rounds. ''Everything will be revealed on January 19 both at the product announcement and on the Web site,'' said Ditzel, adding that he cannot comment on any of the rumors or speculation. Still in stealth mode, Ditzel will not even disclose the number of employees at Transmeta, which one semiconductor industry executive said is close to 200. But in the past two years, Transmeta gained even more buzz in Silicon Valley when it became known that Linus Torvalds, the father of the upstart Linux operating system, had joined.

To: Kayaker who wrote (5282)	1/16/2000 7:50:00 PM
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12/22/1999 Conference Call - Selected Bytes - China. 1999 Conference Call 12/22/1999 75 min. Investor Conference Call Regarding The Sale Of Its Phone Business Section 3: Question and Answer Session (68 min.) Jeffrey Schlesinger with Warburg, Dillon, Read. Timemark: 32:45 JS:: And, then China? IJ: China. The handling of the negotiations was transferred from the MII, Ministry of Information & Industry, to Unicom, plus a group of potential manufacturers. And, meetings have proceeded. They've broken now for the holidays but will pick up immediately after the holidays. Thus far I'd say there's progress. There's always the issue in China that there's a desire to trade market for technology. That's, of course, of interest as long as there's a way to make profits on that market. And so, those discussions will continue. I think that again, they are more positive over the last month or two, certainly since the decision on the WTO, than they had been for the few months earlier than that, and I'm still optimistic that we will reach an agreement. JS:: Is that a positive step that they've transferred it from the government to Unicom and to manufacturers and can you give us a time frame when you think you might see an agreement? IJ: I view it as a positive step. I don't think the ministry is pulled out of that discussion and so they will watch and provide guidance but the fact that there are both manufacturers and a company that wishes to launch a large CDMA network as early as possible, I think does give an additional sense of urgency to concluding negotiations. And so, I think there's an opportunity to try to finish within the month...next month. If we miss on that it could stretch another few months. Right now, there's been a good exchange of information, an understanding of the structure of these agreements, our points of view, their points of view. We are now digesting and getting ready to return.