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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (48648)	2/24/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jeff - Re: Intel & StrongARM Thanks for pointing out the significance of this CHIP to Intel. You had very good foresight on that Chip. With that chip - StrongARM - and a license to the ARM architecture, Intel will own the dominant CPUs in : 1. The low end/Hand Held/appliance category - StrongARM 2. The Desktop - Pentium II/Deschutes/Slot1 3. Workstations - Deschutes/Slot 2 4. Servers - Multiple Deschutes/Slot 2 5. Enterprise Big Silicon - Merced (short for Mercedes ?) I'd say Intel's strategic road map looks mighty solid. This may keep Intel out of bankruptcy court for another quarter or two. Paul

To: Jeff Fox who wrote (48648)	3/13/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Jim Nagel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

StrongArm is a great chip for handhelds, settop boxes etc, as several have written in this thread. You may also be interested to know that Arm chips were first developed to power desktop machines. The first was the Archimedes range from Acorn, back in 1987 (ARM first stood for Acorn Risc Machine, changed to Advanced when Apple and VLSI were invited to invest about 1991), and I'm using one of its successors, the Acorn RiscPC, to write this. British schools have had Risc-powered desktop machines since 1987. Acorn's operating system, RiscOS, is compact, lives on Rom complete with GUI and the commonest fonts and a suite of applications, and nimble. Lots of third-party applications including browsers, DTP, Sibelius (music processor), photo retouching, ... All this experience at programming the Arm gives Acorn an advantage in new markets for the chip. Jim Nagel (Computer Shopper magazine UK, freelance)