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To: Karl who wrote (3149)	10/24/1997 4:42:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14451

If I had to pick buyout candidates: NEC Siemens Nixdorf Toshiba Intel With NO inside (or any other kind) of information, john

To: Karl who wrote (3149)	10/24/1997 7:02:00 PM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Sun? I hope not! Sun already has its own RISC and SGI already 'gave' Sun the Starfire, which is catching fire in the marketplace. SGI will be similar to Apple -- lot of talks about potential suitors but probably none will come forward. Let's hark back to SGI's heydays when it made tons of money and had to bail out MIPS when it was about to flip upside down. The question here is who now makes so much money on MIPS and does not want to see it fade away? IBM? Why do they want to take on another platform? It looks like the market is shaking down and in the near future we will see only 3 major processors: Intel, Sun Sparc and IBM/Motorola PowerChip. Can you shed some more on scalable networking chips? I always think SGI has the best graphic chips and someone out there may want to own this technology if it is easy to mass produce. Is it time for SGI people to cross over the freeway to work with Sun? Sun may not like SGI the company, but Sun loves the brilliant and dedicated SGI people. -Al (working at Sun)