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To: denni who wrote (174931)	6/27/2003 4:14:22 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Hi Denni, "By Our Intellectual Property Correspondent: " theinquirer.net Wednesday 25 June 2003, 12:08 "OUR OLD PALS at the People's Daily report today that the Lenovo Group, also known as Legend, have developed a notebook motherboard and software which owe their origin to homegrown intellectual property rights. According to the site, the notebook will use Intel's Pentium M microprocessor, an i885 chipset and Intel Pro Wireless wireless LAN support. Legend Lenovo apparently has contributed a design for the mobo which is completely independent from anyone else's design and software which has been designed from the bottom up, without using anyone else's intellectual property. The report claims that Legend-Lenovo will now apply for patents, perhaps as many as 20, on the technology." theinquirer.net =========================================== The projects that have gone overseas seem to be the older CPU duplicate projects. The new technology groups in the USA seem to be absorbing around 65% to 70% (my guess) of those who were in redeployment from the older duplicate projects. Most layoffs appear to be in IT. Regarding new technology, most is done in the USA. It took one foreign country about 30 years before they were able to successfully develop new Intel technology. Given my statistics above, I don't believe the engineering positions are the target (given it appears the top 65% to 70% can move to new technology groups right here in the USA). It's the IT positions that appear to be the target for overseas it seems to me, across the board at all companies. And some of the mature/old/duplicate projects in old technologies. If you look at the auto industry, the main design centers continue to be the USA, last I checked. My concern from a competitive standpoint for this country is: what happens to the USA when some of the research centers move offshore (e.g. MS-Beijing research center). I'm making an important distinction between design centers and research centers. So, I'm not talking Intel's stuff, I'm talking Microsoft's stuff. (Intel just has chipsets in China & one project of an older CPU in India - development center, not pure research center.) Am curious about the impact to Microsoft in having a pure research center in China - if there's a belief that open source is the way to go, then there's no problem, but is that the assumption and if so why? I've noticed no industry figure has discussed the ramifications of a Microsoft research center moving to China. Why? Regards, Amy J

To: denni who wrote (174931)	6/27/2003 6:58:12 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Tenchusatsu, Denni, Gottfried, WannaBMW, Greg & Dan & Thread, I need to purchase a new network PC for work. What's the best, high-end Dell PC (say $3k range) for running many simultaneous media & video applications at once? i.e. Which Dell PC is powerful enough for handling MANY simultaneous, multimedia applications quickly? (This is not an engineer's PC, but a multimedia headquarter's corporate communications PC, handling many multimedia applications at once) The Dell system must have sufficient power (&bus&mem) to perform the following simultaneous tasks at the same time: Typical scenario: - Many simultaneous video streams (some mpeg, some h261, etc.) coming to a headquarter PC from our remote sites, all at once (so not just one video stream, but the PC's hardware has to have the power to handle many video streams at once). Last checked, the Dell system choked due to its internal hardware limitiations (no, not a bandwidth issue, but a lack of adequate designing in the Dell system back at that time), but believe the new Dell hardware might be able to handle some of these things now, at least to a certain degree and at the same time, do also: - Archiving simultaneous streams to hard disk [ i.e. needs sufficient multitasking capabilities - which chip system is best suited for multitasking? ] and - One of the following (in background): burning to DVD or CD and - Playing an opening video/DVD to remote sites - Fast database search on 10,000 entries that's stored on a server elsewhere (i.e. someone will ask a question, and this corporate PC has to be able to dig for the answer fast, on the spot, while all the other mentioned applications are running.) The entries are stored at the server where one would think the server's CPU is being munched during a search, but the search is actually at the desktop (due to fast indexing at the desktop). This always seems to a desktop to its knees, even when this is the only application running. It's a Microsoft application (thank goodness they keep coming out with CPU munchers, but as a user it's frustratingly slow.) - Sometimes a news video in background - Excell (usually ten worksheets in one spreadsheet is open- i.e. lots of mem) - Word (memory intensive graphics & long documents) - Outlook (huge attachments, and large inbox/folders) - a few Internet Explorers - Sometimes one of the following: Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, animated graphics, video editing [ i.e. lots of memory for large objects - which memory is best? Dell's site implies SDRAM is better than DDR, but I thought DDR was better than SDRAM? ] Here's what I'm wondering: - which memory (in what configuration) is best for video & multimedia - which chip/mem/Dell system is best suited for an enormous amount of multitasking of multimedia applications and many intensive concurrent video streaming, displayed in top-notch DVD quality Your thoughts? Regards, Amy J PS I'm open to HP or Compaq systems but got lost on their website.