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To: neverenough who wrote (7641)	4/1/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

nigel.... i would have to agree, from the standpoint of short term performance to the strength of a safety net at 13. idti has truly repositioned itself, and although the market may not yet fully buy into that, the base support has matured considerably. barring market histrionics, a freefall below 13 seems unlikely. armed with a little patience, one can find a very bright future by throwing in with idti.

To: neverenough who wrote (7641)	4/1/1998 3:12:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

Tuesday March 31 9:59 AM EST New Intel Chip For Low-cost PCs Behind Rivals-Report SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new, much-anticipated chip developed by Intel aimed at the sub-$1,000 PC market is not as fast running applications as its clone competitors, according to tests performed by computer magazine PC World. The chip, called Celeron, is expected to be launched on April 15, but PC World said it obtained a pre-production PC with a Celeron chip running at a speed of 266 megahertz. "PC World completed the first road tests of the processor which indicate that Intel's rivals are still ahead in both price and performance," PC World said in a statement. Bill Snyder, senior news editor at PC World, said that while the chip runs at its expected speed of 266 megahertz, its performance running software applications is slower than the performance of rival chips developed by Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor unit Cyrix. "The thing is pretty slow," Snyder said. "There is no doubt in my mind that ... why it's slow is because of the lack of secondary cache. Take away the secondary cache and you get a big hit to performance." Intel has said that Celeron will have no L2 or level two cache, which is a reserved section of the chip for storing memory, in order to make a chip that can address the low-cost computing market. PC World said it tested the chip running applications such as Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program; Microsoft Word, its word processing program; the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, made by Lotus Development's Lotus word processing program WordPro; and a few other business applications. "We don't know what the magazine has in terms of a test system," said Intel spokesman Howard High. "What we have seen historically, if you look back at other chips like Klamath and others, a number of publications get pre-production products and when the real product comes out, they wind up having to recant and reposition their words." PC World notes in its article in its May issue that the chip was close to the final version, but that sources close to Intel said the final version of the chip may offer slightly better performance. "Nevertheless, PC vendors privately express little enthusiasm over the new chip's performance," PC World said. PC World wrote that Celeron fails to live up to its name, which comes from the Latin word "celer," meaning speed. PC World, a monthly computer magazine published in San Francisco, said it has a circulation of over 1.1 million. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Questions or Comments Copyright c 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.