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To: mr.mark who wrote (1304)	8/23/2000 11:07:44 PM
From: TechieGuy-alt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

can anyone elaborate on the use of the term 'design win'? Chips do not usually work by themselves. They have to be "designed into" a larger circuit that is designed for a particular application. A "Design win" is referred to the act of deciding to include a particular (normally single source part, like a micro) into the design. Hence, when the original pilot design team were looking for a micro, the Mot (the dragonball part) got a "design win" in the pilot! TG

To: mr.mark who wrote (1304)	8/23/2000 11:20:42 PM
From: Alski	Respond to of 6784

mr.mark, 'Design win' is kinda self descriptive and means just what you probably thought it means. It just means that a vendor's product has been designed into a customers project. In this case, if it turns out to be true, Intel would have won the competition to be chosen for future PALM products. FWIW...Alski

To: mr.mark who wrote (1304)	8/23/2000 11:53:12 PM
From: P.M.Freedman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Mark--"Design win" means the best designed product to win whatever (such as market, customer, opportunity...) At current stage, neither INTC nor PALM would like to confirm its products are for a specific customer or on a single vendor. You may already heard that MSFT is going to make its own net chips, which will be used for its webTV network at the beginning. CSCO and other networking companies are under heavy pressures from Intel's new net chips. Intel has managed to shrink level two, three and four Fast Ethernet and Gigabit technology into a single chip. Intel has co-worked with CHKP to even embedded CHKP's VPN codes into its new networking chips. The newly demonstrated 800MHz new StrongArm variant, part of the Xscale family, can deliver 1000 MIPS using only one watt.