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To: engineer who wrote (6400)	12/13/1997 8:52:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

engineer, your post raises these questions. Apologize in advance: some are bound to be DUMB. I take it the idea is to create a circuit that is optimized to perform a specific function, thus it can only do that function, unlike the processor in my PC which will happily do all kinds of stuff, is that right? And thus the name: ASIC? So does that mean you guys grabbed an 80186 chip and monkied around with it and made it a specialist? Also, what's this about radio functions? What's a Q phone doing with those little guys? How is a DSP different than an ASIC? I understand that the Q farms out manufacturing of some portion of its ASIC production to others, including LSI Logic. Is that true, can you confirm? What does the Q do: give them a blue print and say cook us up a batch of these? Finally, what's a general price range for one these ASIC's? Do these little babies roll out the door at $1/per or $25/per ? Take your time in responding--next five or six minutes be just fine. :-) Regards, Mike Doyle