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To: steve harris who wrote (170961)	9/11/2002 7:06:41 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Says Gaining Steam in Wireless Markets Tuesday September 10, 3:10 pm ET By Duncan Martell SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) is making steady advances in getting cell phone manufacturers to use its Xscale processors while sales of its flash memory, an increasingly important component in cell phones, have held steady, a senior company executive told Reuters on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT "We definitely have design wins from recognizable -- easily recognizable -- cell phone manufacturers," said Ron Smith, who heads Intel's wireless communications and computing group, in an interview with Reuters. Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has been working to diversify away from the personal computer industry, a market that still accounts for about 80 percent of its revenue. The company has spent billions of dollars buying communications chip companies in the last four years and analysts have said the company seems intent on staying the course. "We're seeing a lot of uptake with our product," Smith said. "Probably better than I could have expected in some ways because there is a paradigm shift to standard product parts in phones." Because of the downturn in the economy, cell phone manufacturers are increasingly turning to standard products, or building-block technologies, in which Intel specializes, rather than custom-designed chips and components, Smith said. Advanced applications for next-generation phones, taking advantage of the higher-data-transmission-rate GPRS transmission standard, will be in phones available in the next several quarters, Smith said. Those features, which include viewing digital-movie clips, listening to music, and sending and receiving pictures would help spur demand, he said. Sales of Intel's flash memory chips, which are widely used in cell phones, haven't dipped from the second quarter, Smith said, adding that the amount of flash memory used in each mobile phone is "increasing significantly," largely because of the move to color screens that require more memory. Intel is one of the largest makers of flash memory chips. Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - News) is another major flash chipmaker. Smith said that Intel's flash revenue rose 16 percent in the second quarter from the first quarter. "If you'd asked me last quarter was that (the first quarter) the bottom, I would have said I'd like to see more time" before making that call," Smith said. "It (flash chip sales) hasn't dropped back down, it's continued to be OK."

To: steve harris who wrote (170961)	9/11/2002 3:18:08 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

They're not Stable - but WHO CARES !!! - They're CHEAP !!! Right Winnny? Just load up some Linux and they might work xbitlabs.com On nForce2 Based Mainboards Availability Wednesday, September 11, 2002 On nForce2 Based Mainboards Availability [12:07 pm] Anton NVIDIA announced the nForce2 chipsets back in July, promising that the actual mainboards based on the core-logic will be available in late August or early September. Unfortunately, the nForce2 is going to be postponed for a number of weeks because several mainboard developers currently have some problems with their nForce2 powered products. The issues mainly concern stability and are going to be resolved soon. As our sources at NVIDIA assured us, the mainboards will be available by the time Athlon XP processors with 333MHz system bus are on the market, as a result, we are not going to see nForce2 based devices in big quantities until October. Since nForce2 is the most feature-rich Socket A chipset, it is pretty natural that mainboard makers have some problems with their designs. As we know, the nForce2 is a unique core-logic that supports AMD Athlon XP processors with 333MHz system bus, 2-channel PC2100/PC2700 and DDR400 DDR SDRAM memory, AGP 8x, ATA133, 6 USB 2.0 ports, Dual 10/100 Ethernet controllers, 3 IEEE1394 ports, DolbyDigital decoding and ACR cards. NVIDIA offers two versions of nForce2: discrete nForce2-ST and nForce2-GT with integrated GeForce4 MX graphics core. Meanwhile, some mainboard manufacturers reveal the specifications of their future nForce2 powered products. This week EPoX has unveiled the specs of their EP-8RGA+ that utilises the latest chipset from NVIDIA: Supports all Socket A Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron with 200, 266, 333MHz FSB; NVIDIA nForce2 IGP North-Bridge and MCP-T I/O Controller; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and DDR400 DDR SDRAM (2-channels of DDR SDRAM require only two slots to be utilised); Integrated GeForce4 MX graphics core; 6 PCI, and 1 AGP 8x slot; 2-channel integrated ATA/133 controller; Dual 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet Adapter; 6 USB 2.0 ports; Optional IEEE1394 ports; P80P onboard post controller; Integrated 6-channel audio solution with DolbyDigital support; Overclocking functions, including, Vcore, Vmem and Vagp adjustments. EPoX will also roll out its EP-8RDA+ mainboard based on nForce2-ST core-logic. To my great sadness, there are no word about the timeframe these devices will be available.