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To: Flatiron who wrote (4571)	3/24/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

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To: Flatiron who wrote (4571)	3/24/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Dave Swanson	Respond to of 8581

That helps alot, thanks much Dave

To: Flatiron who wrote (4571)	3/29/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 8581

Computergram International March 27, 1998 SILICON GRAPHICS MIPS SPIN-OFF MIGHT HAPPEN NEXT MONTH Talk of Silicon Graphics Inc spinning out its MIPS RISC chip unit has arisen once again. This time the San Jose Mercury hears that bankers are at work on an initial public offering for SGI's MIPS Product Technologies arm. The move - first mooted earlier this year (CI No 3,331) is expected to involve MIPS partners such as Nintendo Co Ltd and Sony Corp, and fabricators NEC Corp, Philips Semiconductors and Toshiba Corp. Other MIPS fabricators include Integrated Device Technologies Inc, LSI Logic Corp, NKK Corp and Quantum Effect Design Inc. A spin-off would both clear MIPS from SGI's balance sheet and enable more independence for both SGI and MIPS. Like just about everyone else, SGI is now eyeing the Intel marketplace for future business. Meanwhile, MIPS, which sold 48 million 32-bit chips into the embedded marketplace in 1997, would be free to spend more of its resources developing the consumer and embedded parts where its future now obviously lies. It's expected that SGI would retain control of the high-end of the MIPS architecture, in order to keep its very high-end graphics technology up to strength. New chief executive Rick Belluzzo is expected to announce the spin-off, which could be worth around $ 400m, early next month. It's thought that SGI will retain up to 70% of the spin-off initially, and that the public offering is a little further out. Intel acquired MIPS for $ 200m in 1992. #################################################################### Computergram International March 17, 1998 MIPS OVERTAKES MOTOROLA TO LEAD 32-BIT EMBEDDED CHIP MARKET The MIPS RISC chip, now owned by Silicon Graphics Inc, may have lost most of its business as a central processing unit for computers, but with 48 million parts shipped in 1997 it is now the leader in the 32-bit embedded market. And last year, shipments from MIPS partners Integrated Device Technologies Inc, LSI Logic Corp, NEC Corp, NKK Corp, Philips Semiconductors, Quantum Effect Design Inc and Toshiba Corp, finally overtook the leading CISC processor in the field: Motorola's venerable 680x0 architecture, which shipped 46.4 million units, according to Semico Research Corp. That makes it the first RISC architecture in history to exceed the volume of Motorola's 32-bit 68k microprocessors. The MIPS figures, taken from the year-end reports of its partners, show that shipments more than doubled from last year, driven by some high-volume consumer electronic design wins. RISC microprocessor and embedded core shipments in general are growing at a rate of 55.3% according to RISC-chip watcher Andrew Allison, whose repo rt, "Inside the New Computer Industry" shows the MIPS architecture grew at 250% in 1996 and 150% last year, increasing market share for the architecture to nearly 50%.