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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (12071)	6/19/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

John, Intel's announcement may be good for consumers. I would like to see benchmarking in target applications before I close the book on Transmeta. The newer net applicances will not need to run on a Windows desktop platform and serve a purpose entirely separate from the market for laptops. Thus, the need for a PIII/Wintel type design may not be there. Transmeta has some novel approaches to power consumption in the handheld devices and reportedly have a leg up on the technology Intel currently employs. It has to do with adjusting power based on the demands placed on the CPU and realizing that a 600 MHz chip doesn't always run at 600MHz. It will be exiting to see how this plays out. Either way I believe SanDisk will be able to service a wide variety of OS's and CPU designs. The general trend toward power consumption and portability dictates this. Aus