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To: Mannie who wrote (10265)	10/29/2000 10:19:32 PM
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Oct 29, 2000 Intel-Rambus split widens Road map indicates chip giant is phasing out Direct RDRAM from most of its platforms By Jack Robertson Electronic Buyers' News (10/27/00, 04:11:44 PM EST) A confidential road map obtained by EBN shows Intel Corp. dropping Direct Rambus DRAM from every computing platform but high-end workstations by mid-2001. This would appear to bear out recent comments by Intel president Craig Barrett that the exclusive deal to support the memory interface was “a mistake.” According to the document, Intel will phase out the slow-selling Direct RDRAM-enabled 820 chipset in the first quarter of next year, while the yet-to-be-introduced Intel 850 chipset will be dropped in the middle of the third quarter. At that time, Intel's sole remaining Rambus chipset will be an enhanced 850 device code-named Tehama-E, which the company is rolling out for workstations and PCs costing more than $2,000. The details of the road map are further evidence that the rupture between Intel and memory-design partner Rambus Inc. has widened, even to the point where Intel is planning to introduce a double-data-rate SDRAM-enabled chipset for desktop PCs. Industry sources said the companies are engaged in negotiations over Intel's demand that a clause barring it from fielding its own DDR chipset until 2003 be stricken from its licensing contract with Rambus. Intel representatives declined to comment on either the talks or the road map, citing a policy against discussing unannounced products. However, several DRAM and memory-module suppliers with knowledge of the company's development plans said Intel is designing its own DDR chipset, and, as previously reported by EBN, has bought a store of unbuffered DIMMS for testing and validation purposes. Industry sources believe the chipsets, known as Almador and Brookdale, will be introduced in the middle of next year and will have both single-data-rate and DDR capability. Intel will time the activation of the DDR function according to market conditions, the sources said. Intel's own chipset road map showed the Brookdale replacing the 850/Rambus chipset next year for high-end “Mainstream 3” PCs in the $1,500 to $2,000 price range. Brookdale supports a mainstream desktop Pentium 4, code-named Northwood, which is expected to debut in the second quarter of next year. The Almador chipset, which supports a 1.3-GHz Pentium III shrink code-named Tualatin, will appear at the end of the second quarter. Initially aimed at PCs in the $1,300 to $1,700 range, Tualatin will be shifted to the $1,100 to $1,400 space late in the third quarter of 2001. Its contractual issues with Rambus aside, when Intel chooses to activate the DDR capability of its chipsets, it will be more than six months behind rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which this week will introduce the 760 DDR chipset and upgraded 266-MHz processor bus to support its highest-performance Athlon processors. Meanwhile, third-party chipset vendors, including Acer Laboratories, Micron Technology, and Via Technologies, already have introduced their own DDR-enabled logic controllers for the Athlon. The same third-party manufacturers have unveiled DDR chipsets for the Pentium III, which should help Intel make up for the fact that it has yet to field a similar chipset of its own. In fact, Via and Acer have said they will supply DDR chipsets for the Pentium 4, and were said to be seeking Intel's approval in meetings last week with Barrett in Taiwan. Earlier this year, Intel approached Micron about the possibility of licensing that company's DDR-equipped Samurai chipset technology, a source close to Micron said. However, the memory-chip maker declined to give Intel an exclusive license because it also wanted to use the Samurai to support the Athlon, according to the source.

To: Mannie who wrote (10265)	10/29/2000 10:25:06 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Investment Whiz Charged With Fraud .c The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - At age 19, Mark Yagalla was pointing investors toward Internet stocks that would take flight in the late 1990s, doubling his clients' portfolios. Then came the million-dollar homes, the collectors' edition and the $300,000 donation to the Republican National Committee. Now 23, the college dropout may soon find himself behind bars. Federal authorities have charged him with securities fraud, saying he defrauded investors to finance his extravagant lifestyle. Yagalla started out as a successful money manager, with timely investments in Internet and high-tech stocks. But as the stocks took a dramatic dive early this year, his financial empire crumbled. Prosecutors say that in mid-October, days before federal agents arrested him at his Delaware mansion, he tried to raise cash to pay off investors and attempted to borrow $500,000 from a Las Vegas casino against his overdrawn brokerage account. While some investors, particularly the ones who made money early on, still support Yagalla, others have been ruined. Perry Scarfo, a Delaware hair salon owner, invested $750,000, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf. His lawyer Francis Pileggi described Scarfo and other Yagalla investors as ``hardworking people who are in shock that their money has disappeared.'' Yagalla has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment Sunday. Auditors said his hedge fund posted gains of more than 60 percent in 1999, three times what the Standard & Poor's 500 averaged. His promotional literature boasted of an experienced staff that included a former Dean Witter Reynolds vice president, two investment bankers and three securities brokers from an established New York brokerage house. But the SEC says Yagalla lied when he told investors this year that his fund was profitable. Instead, the SEC said, it was running out of money, and Yagalla was using some of the cash on his homes and cars, including two Ferraris and a $310,000 Bentley. The SEC says the fund is now almost entirely gone. Yagalla, who was arrested Oct. 18, is free on $250,000 bond. His lawyers initially said he would fight the charges, but they did not return calls seeking comment last week. One investor, Nebraska uniform-company owner Doug Dudley, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he was so impressed with Yagalla when he met him four years ago investing in an oil well that he gave him another $100,000 to invest - even though the oil well went bust. The investments in Yahoo, Dell and other high-tech stocks doubled Dudley's money. Yagalla was ``intellectual-wise, an exceptional young man. He seemed to have the knowledge of many 30- and 40-year-olds regarding the stocks,'' said Dudley, 72. ``I hope he is not in too deep.'' On the Net: SEC: sec.gov