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To: rkral who wrote (180938)	4/29/2005 8:34:28 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 186894

Intel pushing for common bus for cellphone ICs David Lammers EE Times (04/28/2005 7:19 PM EDT) AUSTIN, Texas — Faced with increasingly complex cellular handsets, Intel Corp. is pushing for a common bus specification that would be used by different types of memories within cellphones, said Mark Leinwander, system architecture manager at Intel's flash products group. Intel currently chairs a JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) committee that is studying the issue. Now, different types of execution buses are used for DRAMs, flash, and pseudo static (PSRAM) memories. That makes it difficult for designers of memory controllers, Leinwander said here Thursday (April 28) at the Denali Memcon Austin 2005 conference, organized by Denali Software, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) "There are too many buses, too many pins, too many interfaces," he argued. Intel's proposal is that a common execution bus be developed, based on the bus architecture now used for the low-power double-data-rate (LP-DDR) DRAMs. For the mass-storage subsystems, based either on NAND flash or the small one-inch disk drives, the Intel manager suggested that the industry standardize on the high-speed multi-media card (MMC) interface.

To: rkral who wrote (180938)	5/3/2005 12:48:55 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

> I've never seen anything to indicate the taxman is involved with option repricing. < Proof positive that one should be careful about posting when you're beginning to feel sick. You are correct, it's is not a TAX issue per se, rather it is the issue of expensing which impacts earnings and thus indirectly impacts taxes. I seem to recall that the tax impact is disproportionate because of the oddities of option accounting, but don't have anything in front of me to back that up. Sorry for the late reply. Managed to pick up something really nasty last week. -btc