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To: John Biddle who wrote (32567)	2/18/2003 7:10:06 AM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 197761

Eight Asian cell-phone makers adopt Intel's new chip Tuesday, February 18, 2003 By Chi-Chu Tschang / Bloomberg News detnews.com BEIJING -- Intel Corp., the world's largest semiconductor maker, said eight Asian mobile-phone makers have agreed to develop handsets using its Manitoba chip, which has computing, memory and signal functions on one device. Four of the eight are based in China, Intel officials said at a press briefing in Beijing, naming Ningbo Bird Co., Legend Group Ltd., TCL Group Corp. and Beijing Capital Group. The other four are Hong Kong-listed Mobicon Group Ltd., South Korea's Maxon Telecom Co., and Taiwan's Mitac International Corp. and Inventec Application Corp. Santa Clara, California-based Cellon has also endorsed the chip. Handsets incorporating the chip will help China's mobile operators roll out new services, Intel officials forecast. The country has more than 200 million mobile-phone users, making it the world's largest market. "They're saying a year from now you can be receiving pictures instead of just a few lines of text messages," said Ian Yang, general manager of Intel China Ltd. "If that's going to happen, you're going to need the processing part of this device." Intel unveiled the PXA800F chip, previously codenamed Manitoba, last week. It will help cell phones handle more complex operations such as sending pictures, they said. The world's biggest handset suppliers, Nokia Oyj, Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., haven't yet said whether they will adopt the chip. There may be more announcements at the 3GSM World Congress, which opens tomorrow in Cannes, France, Intel spokeswoman Josie Taylor said. Rival Texas Instruments Inc., the world's biggest maker of chips that power mobile phones, already has connections with a majority of the companies Intel announced relationships with, Texas Instruments spokeswoman Gail Chandler said, declining to be more specific. Handsets equipped with the Manitoba chip are expected to retail for between $100 and $150, said Yang. The chips are being made in the U.S. and tested in Intel's development facility in Arizona. Intel will begin testing the chips in Asia in the second half of this year, it said. Santa Clara-based Intel shares rose 62 cents, or 4 percent, to $16.15 on Feb. 14 on the Nasdaq stock market.