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To: Don Edgerton who wrote (73972)	6/15/2000 2:31:00 PM
From: tech101	Respond to of 152472

Everyone's Betting On Bluetooth biz.yahoo.com By David Einstein Can a 10th-century king rise from the dead a thousand years later and conquer the world? It sure looks that way. Bluetooth--named after King Harald II of Denmark, who apparently had one bad tooth--is poised to become a globally accepted communications technology for the wireless world. Using radio signals, Bluetooth will let computers and handheld devices talk to each other over a distance of a few yards without the need for wires or cables. That means you'll soon be able to synchronize the information in your cell phone with the database in your PalmPilot. Or print photos directly from a digital camera. Or use your cell phone as a modem for your laptop. Eventually, the technology could evolve to the point where consumers wearing a small Bluetooth-enabled device could shop by having their credit information conveyed directly to the store's computer. Six years after Swedish phonemaker Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY - news) and a handful of other telecom and computer technologies first floated the idea, Bluetooth has leapt into the spotlight to become the darling of the digerati. Nearly 1,900 companies have jumped aboard the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, hoping to plumb this new technology mine for all it's worth. . . . ***************** Even Amkor is surprised by MicroLeadFrame ramp up in cell phones eocenter.com By Jack Robertson Semiconductor Business News (10/05/99, 11:17:05 AM EDT) PHOENIX --The production of a new MicroLeadFrame (MLF) chip package for cellular telephone handsets has reached 4 million units a month in just three months after initial production began at Amkor Technology Inc (AMKR). According to Amkor, the production ramp up of the MLF package is the fastest ever at the contract supplier of chip assembly and testing services. Expanded production will bring the MLF package output to 4 million units a week by January and to 10 million a week by the end of 2000, said Terry Davis, product manager at Amkor. . . . He added that Amkor has never ramped up a new product so quickly. "Usually it takes almost two years before a new item reaches the production level of 1 million units a month," Davis noted. "MLF achieved 2 million units in only its second month of production, and is now running at 4 million units a month." Although the immediate market response has come from cell phone OEMs, Amkor officials believe the new miniature chip package has wide application in handheld computers, PDAs, and a wide variety of handsets using the new Bluetooth** wireless connectivity standard.