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To: niceguy767 who wrote (5212)	8/16/2000 12:20:35 PM
From: drachelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

re: "speedy recovery of lost ground, and then some, may now be in the making!!!" Do please watch out for that giddy euphoria which seems to always precede a top!! drachelle

To: niceguy767 who wrote (5212)	8/16/2000 12:39:15 PM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Niceguy, I wish it for all of us that you are right! BTW: I found two interesting articles on Electic Tech: "Headlines For Wednesday, August 16, 2000 ICHARGEIT INC - Prepares to Ship Line of 1.1 Gigahertz Desktop PC's [By: Rajeev Kadam on 8/16/00 - Talk Back Empowered by Advanced Micro Devices' 1.1 Gigahertz Athlon processors- iChargeit, Inc., a diversified business-to business (B2B) and usiness-to-consumer (B2C) direct and e-commerce specialist, announced an expansion of their Virtual PC Builder product line to now include Desktop PC's powered by AMD's (NYSE:AMD) 1.1 gigahertz Athlon processor. The Company will begin shipping these new systems within the next 30 days. Additionally, the Company announced they have successfully begun shipping their line of Virtual PC Builder Computer Systems powered by the AMD Duron processor. The computers are being sold under iChargeit's Virtual PC Builder brand name, assembled by their wholly-owned subsidiary, Bay Micro Computers, Inc. and marketed through the Company's Shoppingplanet.com website and network of e-dealers. Jesse Cohen, President and CEO of iChargeit, Inc. stated, "The Company continues efforts to increase sales, expand our product offerings and seek out additional opportunities for increased revenue streams. We continue to offer our network of e-Dealers significant competitive advantages, including both the AMD Duron processor and the new 1.1 gigahertz Athlon chip. It clearly provides a key advantage which could provide significant revenue to the Company and its shareholders." iChargeit Intel's Itanium Still Has A Way to Go [By: Rajeev Kadam on 8/16/00 - Talk Back While the chips weren't quite up to snuff, Intel Corp. and its partners demonstrated functional Itanium silicon at LinuxWorld Tuesday. At least three companies showed off Itanium systems on the show floor: Intel, with help from VA Linux Systems Inc. and Mission Critical Linux, Silicon Graphics Inc., and NEC Corp. NEC, in fact, demonstrated a 16-way Itanium way server using its custom-designed Azusa chipset. However, the Itanium chips did not perform anywhere near the promised speed of 800 MHz. Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., recently pushed back the Itanium's release date three months or so until the fourth quarter, when pilot development systems are scheduled to be released. Instead, Intel's LinuxWorld efforts included demonstrating 500-MHz, preproduction Itanium chips in its own booth and with SGI, which also had a system containing a 733-MHz Itanium chip, an SGI spokesman said. NEC representatives declined to comment on the clock speed of the chips in their Azusa prototype, but indicated that the clock speed was well under the expected 800-MHz threshold. "As we got closer to product time, the task of fixing and validating the silicon ... pushed us out a quarter," said Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel architecture group, last month in an earnings-related conference call with analysts. "We learned a lot in the process." TechWeb