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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (136470)	6/1/2001 1:00:33 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten, Anyone remember the article entitled "AMD's Athlon lands slot in IBM's server line," seen last March on EBN? ebnews.com Putting another dent in Intel's armor, IBM Corp. will shortly introduce a line of front-end network servers using dual Athlon processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., making it the latest OEM to break ranks and put AMD MPUs in its corporate systems. ROTFLMAO!!! What happened to the "no gloating" about the AMD server launch? Well, just one or two "gloats" are OK. ;-) Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (136470)	6/1/2001 3:32:15 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Ten - Re: " Anyone remember the article entitled "AMD's Athlon lands slot in IBM's server line," seen last March on EBN?" Yes ! I wrote the author - Jack Robertson - several times asking him where the devil the IBMAThWiper server was. Eventually, he did respond - much to his credit - and admitted the IBM- AthWiper-Server was a No-Show. My question is - where did he get that story from? Probably Jerry Sanders and his Dirty Tricks department. Paul

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (136470)	6/1/2001 3:36:35 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Ten and Intel Investors - ANother Intel StrongARM design win - this time at Sharp - for their new Zaurus line of PDAs. Paul {====================================} theregister.co.uk Sharp signs Intel for Linux PDA's processor By Tony Smith Posted: 01/06/2001 at 10:00 GMT Sharp is ditching Hitachi for Intel, breaking with tradition to equip its upcoming Linux-based Zaurus PDA with StrongARM, the company admitted yesterday. The reason? StrongARM offers "because it offers the lowest power consumption and the best functions", Sharp's head of mobile systems, Hiroshi Uno, said in an interview with Bloomberg. Price clearly has something to do with the decision, too, since the adoption of the Intel CPU is "a step forward to curb costs". The deal isn't entirely as pro-Intel as it might at first seem. Uno's comments are addressed toward Sharp's mobile multimedia PDA, one of two it's developing in an attempt to regain leadership in the market after being knocked into a cocked hat by Palm. Even if the second device, also running Linux but aimed at the PDA-meets-cellphone arena, is based on the same platform, that still leaves a third next-generation Zaurus, aimed at the Japanese market and continuing to be based on the existing Zaurus OS. However, Uno hinted that Sharp is investigating emulation technology to allow the Zaurus OS and its apps to run on StrongARM. If that programme proves successful, Sharp will use the Intel processor in the Japanese PDA too, Uno suggested. Japan is certainly Sharp's main target, at least in the short-term. Of the one million PDAs the company has pledged to ship by the end of next March - the new devices will ship in the autumn - only around 200,000 of those will be sold overseas, said Uno. Why should Japanese buyers return to Sharp? Because the new Zaurus will be able to run over 10,000 third-party applications, the company reckons. Those apps will come from Java coders and run on the PDA's new Java runtime system, licensed from UK developer Tao. Indeed, we wonder if that's the only reason Sharp is to offer a Linux-based Zaurus and shipping it overseas rather than for the domestic market: to target the world's biggest community of Java programmers, in the US. The new device will get its first public outing in the States at the JavaOne conference next week. ®