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Technology Stocks : Hi/fn™ (pronounced "hyphen" ) (ticker:HIFN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: leigh aulper who wrote (545)	1/21/2000 2:29:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 928

Could someone please tell me... I know Hi/fn has compression/encryption on a single chip... and that this is quite nice to have. But it doesn't sound to me as if this is such a difficult technical feat... it would seem that lots of companies could easily put compression/encryption on a single chip - but, to my knowledge, they haven't done so. Why? Does Hi/fn have some sort of patent that gives then the exclusive right to put compression/encryption on a single chip? Is it a much harder technical feat than I imagine... and Hi/fn is just holding the magical means of doing so as a closely held secret? Could it be that competitors are merely ceding the market to Hi/fn? Thanks, Rob