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To: Joe NYC who wrote (120961)	7/26/2000 12:43:45 PM
From: James Lee Baldwin	Respond to of 1573243

OT-SETO NEWS Wednesday July 26, 11:37 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SETO Announces Signing An MOU -Memorandum of Understanding- To Form a Joint Venture Company With TIR, Teknosif Information Resources Sdn Bhd BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000--SETO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB-SETO) today announced that it has signed a MOU with Teknosif Information Resources Sdn Bhd (TIR) of Malaysia to form a joint venture company comprising SETO and TIR to collaborate with each other for the purpose of optimizing resources and gaining mutual benefits in providing portal business to be concentrated primarily in the South East Asian regions. TIR is an Information Technology company providing specialized services to many Malaysian companies and partial government owned corporations such as Tongkah Holdings Berhard, Pantai Hospital Berhard and Medicare, WorldCare Health (Malaysia), Tongkah Otto Sdn Bhd (waste management), Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM), Petroleum National Berhad (Petronas), Esso Production (M) Sdn Bhd and others. Having a strategic partner such as TIR with an established customer base of major corporations in Malaysia that require telecommunications equipment and content to be supplied by SETO Holdings, Inc. subsidiaries and joint venture partners, will make the new joint venture company to be formed a synergistic powerhouse to help meet the goals of TIR to be the leading service provider in the business of Outsourcing by providing complete Facility solutions and innovative services using today's technology with the support of SETO Holdings manufacturing capabilities of up-to-date telecommunication products and research and development capability for future products, as they become needed. As previously announced, SETO was working with two large corporations in Malaysia, as excellent potentials partners for the services and business organizations support of which Teknosif was one, said Gene Pian, SETO's president. Mr. Tan Hun Chin, a corporate director of SETO and key coordinator of the data management and telecommunication projects said, ``TIR is a perfect match for SETO to provide data, telecommunications and mobile Internet services in Malaysia for business, commercial and consumer markets. TIR, www.TIR.com.my, a subsidiary Teknologi Intensif Sdn Bhd, a company in Malaysia with facilities of, a Server Farm & Server Co-Location, a Data Center Management and a Disaster Recovery Center to service and support customers such as MTDC, Malaysian Technology Development Corporation, a Malaysian government lead corporation, as the designated server management. These types of contacts and base of clients will give the new joint venture company to be formed between SETO and TIR, the strength to become a significant Telecommunications provider in hardware, content and services. Operating out of the existing facilities of SETO and TIR minimizes the start up expenses until profitability is attained, which is forecast within 3 months. SETO having manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, Hong Kong and China for the telecommunication equipment needed for this joint venture will enable us to be an in-house supplier with normal profit margins to the group and also reducing costs by not buying from third party suppliers, thereby establishing another profit center for SETO Holdings, Inc.'' SETO has been manufacturing in Malaysia since 1989, starting with technical products and recently consumer and telecommunication products. This long-term effort and endurance has proven SETO's credibility and sincerity to succeed. The length of time in Malaysia enabled SETO to establish an extensive, nationwide network of people and companies to support our efforts and growth to obtain success. About SETO Holdings, Inc. Founded in 1975, SETO Holding, Inc. operates as a broad based technical manufacturer in two major product groupings: Technical Products to industry, inclusive of diamond tools, wafer fab supplies and technical ceramics; and Consumer Products such as cellular phone batteries, rechargeable batteries for industrial uses, consumer electronics and telecommunication devices. Please visit the Company's web sites: www.SETOHOLDINGS.com, www.stidiamond.com, www.ecsceramics.com, www.setoEmall.com, www.hk-batteries.com.hk. Included in this release are ``forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors including sales levels, distribution and competition trends and other market factors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: SETO Holdings, Inc. Thomas Fisher Public Relations Manager Tel: 914/923-5000 Fax: 914/923-6225 e-mail: stiandecs@aol.com setofisher@aol.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (120961)	7/26/2000 12:50:53 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 1573243

Re: Platform conference roadmap Will Intel have to pay license fees to AMD if they want to also produce a processor supporting the x86-64(TM) instruction set, I wonder?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (120961)	7/26/2000 12:57:22 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573243

AMD Keynote: Platform Strategies and the New Competitive Landscape inqst.com AMD Next Generation Chipset -AMD will revise its performance leading chip set technology with the introduction of AMD-760 chipset -DDR enables leading-edge memory bandwidth for a reasonable cost -AMD-760 chip set board seeking has begun -AMD is currently enabling the motherboard infrastructure -AMD-760 and AMD-760MP chip sets are design to provide greatly enhanced x86 performance THIS FALL Joe

To: Joe NYC who wrote (120961)	7/26/2000 3:57:30 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573243

Joe - re: "Turbocharging AMD-Athlon(tm) Platform with DDR Memory" Looks like AMD's DDR saviour - Acer/ALI - will be shipping DDR chipsets for the Coppermine CPUs at the same time as for the AthWiper !!! "Acer Laboratories Inc. has introduced its first double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM-enabled chipsets that support microprocessors made by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. " Paul {===============================} Acer Labs rolls out DDR chipset for Intel, AMD processors By Faith Hung and Jack Robertson, Electronic Buyers' News Jul 26, 2000 (10:45 AM) URL: ebnews.com Acer Laboratories Inc. has introduced its first double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM-enabled chipsets that support microprocessors made by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ALI, Taipei, Taiwan, joins a pack of third party chipset makers with announced DDR logic controllers which are expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter. The DDR chipsets are designed for desktop and mobile PCs using Intel's Slot 1/Socket 370 family of CPUs, including Pentium III, Pentium II, and Celeron, as well as AMD's Athlon and Duron chips, according to ALI. While it is unable to make its own DDR-enabled chipsets because of a contractual obligation to Direct Rambus DRAM developer Rambus Inc., Mountain View, Calif., Intel has approved third-party DDR chipsets to boost the performance of its existing processors -- which sources believe will extend to a new 0.13-micron version of the Pentium III to come to market early next year. ALI executives have indicated they would be ready to provide DDR chipsets to support Intel's upcoming Pentium 4, too, but haven't been as aggressive as rival Via Technologies Inc., which said recently it will ship DDR chipsets for the P4 with or without a license from Intel. The DDR SDRAM market is projected to grow from 3% of the total DRAM market in 2000 to 50% in 2004, according to ALI, which cited Sherry Garber, an analyst at Semico Research Corp., Phoenix. With DDR widely expected to become the mainstream memory technology in the second half of next year, many motherboard makers and manufacturers of desktop and notebook PC are bullish about its prospect. "We've received endorsement from almost each of the world's top 10 OEMs," said ALI president Chin Wu. Other endorsements have come from Taiwanese companies such as Asustek Computer Inc. -- Intel's biggest motherboard house -- Gigabyte Technology Inc., Acer Inc., Compal Electronics Inc., and Arima Computer Corp., Wu said. In addition to ALI's devices, DDR chipsets have been announced by Via, Silicon Integrated Systems Inc., Micron Technology Inc., and AMD. The chipsets are being validated, and OEMs expect to have prototype desktop and mobile models to show in November at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas. ALI's Intel-based desktop DDR chipsets, the Aladdin Pro 5, is $33 in 20,000-unit lots, while the Aladdin Pro 5M for mobile PCs is $38 each in like quantities. Both prices are considerably lower than Intel's initial $42 tag for its 815 series single-data-rate PC133 SDRAM chipset. The DDR chipset for AMD desktop processors, the ALIMagik 1, is $31 in 20,000-unit lots. The notebook-PC version, the MobileMagik 1, is $36. Both DDR chipsets for Intel and AMD processors include a new M1535D+ Southbridge for desktop PCs and the M1535+ Mobile Southbridge for notebooks. Desktop and notebook versions of the new Southbridge will be available separately for $14 and $19, respectively. ALI will use the foundry facilities of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and United Microelectronics Corp., both of which are based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.