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To: Paul Engel who wrote (105445)	7/11/2000 12:02:08 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - Intel's New 600 MHz StrongARM processor is on its way - after a small delay ! Paul Intel to premier homegrown StrongARM at developers' forum By Peter Clarke, EE Times Jul 10, 2000 (9:54 AM) URL: eetimes.com LONDON ( ChipWire) -- Intel Corp. is within days of obtaining first silicon for its second-generation StrongARM processor, which is expected to pack up to 5,000 Dhrystone MIPS per watt and will run on as little as 0.75 volt of power Though it has been delayed, the SA-2 processor--which will be formally introduced next month at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose--is the first StrongARM designed by Intel, and is being built in 0.18-micron CMOS. Mark Casey, marketing director for Intel's handheld computing division, said the SA-2 processors had been scheduled to sample in the second quarter, but instead will arrive in the second half. Casey attributed the delay to "internal development reasons." In a presentation last year, Intel predicted the SA-2 would run at a 600-MHz clock frequency at 1.3 V while providing a performance of 750 Mips (Dhrystone 2.1) at 450-mW power consumption, but scale back to 150 MHz at 0.75 V while providing 185 MIPS at 40 mW. Casey said the SA-2 was not delayed by problems with the process technology. Instead, he said, Intel had put more time into verifying the design. "We did spend a lot of time in pre-silicon activities. But we've booted a number of operating systems both in software simulation and in hardware emulation so we're confident that the silicon will work," he said. Intel is thought to have a design team based in Austin, Tex., working on the SA-3 StrongARM core as well as application-specific standard products based on the SA-2. Intel is also working with Mitsubishi on a chip set for third-generation mobile communications that is expected to include StrongARM technology. Intel current StrongARM processors, the SA-1100 and SA-1500, are based on the SA-1 core. All of these circuit designs were inherited in Intel's acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp.'s semiconductor operations in May 1998. That makes the SA-2 the first StrongARM core designed by Intel. This has been done under an architectural license from ARM Ltd., of Cambridge, England.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (105445)	7/11/2000 11:20:11 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, >While hardware companies are suffering some seasonal sluggishness, demand for servers helped Compaq Computer and Dell offset slowing consumer PC demand. Just thinking that Intel is making a move up the food chain by increasing their percentage of revenues and profits with the bigger stuff: server processors and related hardware. This is something like Sun did in moving from mostly workstations to mostly servers in the last 5 years or so. However, Intel is not abandoning the lower cost stuff (can't make it too easy on AMD). They are also now challenging Sun themselves in the lower - medium, soon to add more solid medium ground with Titanic, then medium to upper echelons with McKinley next year. Tony