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To: Rob S. who wrote (7359)	3/13/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Steve Lewis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11555

The news clip below introduces a potential development that will appear later in the lowend CPU game: DIGITAL STRONGARM COULD PROVE INTEL'S SECRET WEAPON As part of the settlement last year between Digital Equipment Corp. and Intel, Intel received licensing rights not only to Digital's well-known Alpha chip, but also to a more obscure family of Digital chips -- the Strongarm. Strongarm, which may turn out to be the hidden gem in the deal, is a high-speed processor that runs at very low power, making it ideal for use in battery-powered portable devices, such as palmtop computers. The chip is "an absolute technical tour de force," says an analyst with consulting firm MicroDesign Resources. "For $29 to $49, you get performance that rivals a Pentium at about one-tenth the price. And it uses one-tenth the electricity... I think it's going to scare a lot of the other chip companies. Now Intel is armed to enter the consumer electronics industry." (Investor's Business Daily 12 Mar 98) RobS--What do you think? ARM was formed by Apple & Acorn LTD to aim at the low power market. It doesn't run Windows yet. Does this look like more of a candidate for Windows CE or will this be a low end X86clone/Win98 CPU?