To: fingolfen who wrote (161243 ) 3/6/2002 1:59:55 PM From: Paul Engel Respond to of 186894 "Intel (NASD: INTC - news) -- Outstanding Technology in the Field of Digital Processing 2001 Intel's new approach at improving the performance of modern processor architectures is based on executing more than one thread per processor. Hyper-Threading technology can provide a performance boost on multithreading and multitasking operations for Intel's future NeBurst microarchitecture processors as well as for other architectures. " Wednesday March 6, 12:31 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: In-Stat/MDR Cahners In-Stat/MDR Announces BOPS Inc. and Intel as Recipients of Microprocessor Report's Analysts' Choice Awards SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2002--In-Stat/MDR (MicroDesign Resources), publisher of the Microprocessor Report, Wednesday announced the eighth and ninth winners of its fourth annual Analysts' Choice Awards, honoring the best new microprocessor chips and most promising new microprocessor technology unveiled in 2001. In-Stat/MDR's Analysts' Choice Awards, awarded this year in 10 categories, recognize excellence in semiconductor technology innovation, design and implementation. The awards will be formally presented during the week of the Embedded Processor Forum (http://www.mdronline.com/epf), April 29 - May 2 in San Jose. The winners (in alphabetical order) in the following categories are: BOPS Inc. -- Best DSP IP Core 2001 ``The WirelessRay core, founded upon BOPS' ManArray architecture fits a wide range of capabilities,'' according to Markus Levy, senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. ``The WirelessRay can find a home in a base station's smart antenna, relying on its distributed processing to parallelize the workload, and at the other extreme, the architecture's multiple levels of parallelism allow the processor to be run at low clock speeds and thereby tackle the performance requirements of a mobile handset. ``The combination of all these features and benefits gives BOPS architecture a leg up and makes it deserving of the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for Best DSP IP Core of 2001.'' Intel (NASD: INTC - news) -- Outstanding Technology in the Field of Digital Processing 2001 Intel's new approach at improving the performance of modern processor architectures is based on executing more than one thread per processor. Hyper-Threading technology can provide a performance boost on multithreading and multitasking operations for Intel's future NeBurst microarchitecture processors as well as for other architectures. Max Baron, principal analyst and director at In-Stat/MDR, stated, ``Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, to be delivered on its new Xeon processor family for servers in 1Q02, will speed up server applications, and it will improve performance on desktops running multiple concurrent processes and threaded application programs. ``For these reasons the Microprocessor Report is honored to offer the 2001 Analyst Choice Award for Outstanding Technology in the Field of Digital Processing to Intel.'' Each year, Microprocessor Report analysts review and evaluate more than 100 microprocessors, digital-signal processors, and application-specific digital machines. To view a complete listing of the year's nominees in each of the 10 categories please visit the MDR Web site at mdronline.com . Cahners In-Stat/MDR (http://www.MDRonline.com) offers a broad range of information resources and analytical assets to technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals, and market specialists worldwide. The company stands alone in its ability to integrate both supply-side and demand-side research methodologies into a single comprehensive view of technology markets and products. This capability relies on a unique ability to cover the entire value chain from engineering-level technology, through equipment, infrastructure, services and end-users. Cahners In-Stat/MDR is a unit of Cahners Business Information (http://www.cahners.com), a leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to business professionals and a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group (http://www.reed-elsevier.com). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: In-Stat/MDR Max Baron, 408/345-1611 E-mail: mbaron@mdr.cahners.com Markus Levy, 530/328-3916 E-mail: mlevy@cahners.combiz.yahoo.com