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To: Dief who wrote (4235)	2/4/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Dief - Re: " Only a 3% improvement on business applications over 300 machines but better on graphics." Three per cent isn't bad - with up to 10% speed improvement for graphics. Too bad they didn't have a 333 MHz K6 to benchmark the Pentium II/333 MHz systems against. Maybe PCWORLD can do this next month. Paul

To: Dief who wrote (4235)	2/5/1998 2:01:00 AM
From: Robert Walter	Respond to of 6843

To Dief & ALL, First Thanks for the article on the PII-333. Now back to business, here is today's list of interesting articles regarding the semiconductor industry. National Semiconductor to build low-cost PC chip, report says By James Niccolai InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:14 PM PT, Feb 4, 1998 National Semiconductor has unveiled plans to develop a low-cost, single-chip PC device at its design center in Israel that will be available for commercial use by June 1999, according to a press report published Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Israel, Brian Halla, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, said National Semiconductor will invest $100 million to $150 million in the project over the next 18 months, according to a Reuters Financial wire report. infoworld.com S3 acquired Exponential's chip patents By Elinor Mills InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:14 PM PT, Feb 4, 1998 Graphics accelerator pioneer S3 confirmed on Wednesday that it was the anonymous purchaser of Exponential Technology's microprocessor patent portfolio in an auction last August. infoworld.com Sematech To Expand Research Activities Globally (02/04/98; 7:34 p.m. EST) By J. Robert Lineback, Semiconductor Business News U.S. consortium Sematech in Austin, Texas, Wednesday announced a major expansion of its semiconductor manufacturing research activities, creating an international subsidiary to include chip makers based outside the United States. techweb.com IBM Demonstrates 1-GHz Chip (02/04/98; 3:12 p.m. EST) By Patrick Waurzyniak, Electronic Buyers' News IBM Research engineers on Wednesday said they had successfully demonstrated the first experimental CMOS microprocessor capable of operating at a billion cycles per second (1,000 MHz or 1 GHz), only days after Digital Equipment said its next-generation Alpha chip would exceed the 1-GHz mark. techweb.com $100 single-chip PC on the way By Reuters February 4, 1998, 9:55 a.m. PT TEL AVIV--National Semiconductor today announced that its design center in Israel will develop a single-chip personal computer, a system it hopes to introduce commercially by June 1999. news.com Robert

To: Dief who wrote (4235)	2/5/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 6843

Only a 3% improvement on business applications over 300 machines but better on graphics. With all due respect, Dief, your been lambasting of Intel products and Intel investors continues to ring hollow. There is both a lack of substance and a lack of credibility when you choose to ignore the continual bungling of AMD. You can't ignore bungled manufacturing, bungled product direction, and bungled financing. That's all the more true when you consider that these matters had been brought to your attention a long time ago in a very matter-of-fact way and with ample support in terms of facts. Will you evaporate into thin air as Brian did, convert to Intel as Greg did, or go down with the ship? One thing is clear, you will not be able to right AMD by bouncing peas off of Intel's hull.