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To: Michael Allard who wrote (123500)	8/24/2002 9:19:31 AM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Message 17914045 OUCH! Message 17914215 DOUBLE-OUCH!! The company also said it would be releasing motherboards with onboard support for 802.11 wireless networking Intel Aspires to Wireless By Andy Patrizio Win a 50" HDTV or a Xerox Printer! 2:00 a.m. Feb. 28, 2002 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel may rule the desktop, but the chip giant sees mobile computing as its strongest potential market in the future -- and the announcements made here at the Intel Developer Forum reflect that view. Citing an NPD Intelect report that showed laptop sales jumped last year and helped save the Christmas season for retailers while desktop sales declined, Intel recognizes an opportunity to provide wireless networking. "Wireless is a key inflection point and it will drive mobile computing in the future," said Arnold Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Platforms group at Intel. "Wireless is driving notebook sales because it facilitates an always-on (the network) experience." The company announced two mobile CPUs. The first is the Pentium 4-M, which would run at speeds greater than 1.5 GHz. The second announcement is codenamed "Banias," Intel's next-generation mobile CPU. Traditionally, Intel makes a desktop CPU and then downsizes it for the mobile market. Not so with Banias, which was designed from scratch to be a mobile CPU. It will ship in 2003. Beyond just chips, Intel announced a series of guidelines it hopes will ease development of mobile products. The company is involved in more than 200 standards bodies and development efforts. According to Denis Labrecque, director of marketing for semiconductor- and component-maker Analog Devices, the industry could use some guidance in the development process, since a single change in a product means a total overhaul. For example, a chip change in a PDA means a total rewrite of the operating system. Building on standard chips and APIs could minimize the impact of change in these devices, he said. "We deliver many of the building blocks that are used in many of the technology initiatives that are going on," Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer for Intel, said. "So we can act as a neutral provider of building blocks to all these companies." But Intel can't bet on dominating the wireless market like it does the CPU business. "The wireless market is much more fragmented and not dominated by any single player, and I wonder how many of those companies would want to let Intel dominate their market the way it has the chip market," Tony Massimino, chief of technology for Semico Research, said. That's not to say Intel's efforts to create mobile standards aren't welcomed, he added. "Developing this initiative is an important step," Massimino said. "Some ... standards are needed for wireless developers to agree on." Labrecque agreed with the latter sentiment. "The industry definitely needs someone to drive things. I think what Intel is trying to do is organize things. That doesn't take a lot of resources, just leadership." There was a fair amount of desktop-oriented news at the show as well. The company announced the next-generation of its flagship Pentium 4 processor, code-named Prescott. The new chips, due in 2003, will run up to 4 GHz in speed, twice that of current models, and feature a new threading technology called HyperThreading that will allow software programs to view a single chip as two chips and thus operate like a dual processor machine. Intel also announced the release of a specification it has proposed to replace the PCI peripheral bus, called 3GIO. 3GIO will allow for data transfers from 2.5 GBps up to 10 GBps, well above the 1 GBps that PCI currently supports. In addition to the speed, 3GIO cards will have a different design, so components can be swapped in and out of a computer while it's running. The company also said it would be releasing motherboards with onboard support for 802.11 wireless networking and Universal Serial Bus 2.0 in the second quarter of this year. USB 2.0 is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, transferring data as fast as 480 MBps. wired.com

To: Michael Allard who wrote (123500)	8/24/2002 1:58:30 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Michael.. of course it is a joke.. Have you ever read anything in Barrons worthwhile? ps Starbucks executive was on cnbc the other morning and he really thinks they are going to make a lot of money with this stuff. hmmmmm Crazy since I thought Starbucks was the heavy traffic flow customer type get them in and out .. If fact I thought they came up with their own credit card scanner so the folks wouldn't que up at the registers... Maybe they will drink their coffee outside and hook up for free. ha