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To: don denson who wrote (1589)	4/13/1998 2:13:00 AM
From: Thos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1901

Don and All, I picked up an interesting illustration of the effort to describe the environment that IMES is presently kicking off its operations within. You all are likely using 28.8 baud rate modems, with a few having moved "up" to the faster 56.6 baud rate modem... (but not necessarily better performing, based on the rest of the system, URLs etc. not being there (I believe)) But the IMES design team are working on and with .25 micron SOCs (The ZSP contract, as an example, to produce a digital microprocessor for 3COM U.S. Robotics) Now - the 28.8 modem is configured around a .8 micron chip! While the super fast? 56.6 baud chip is only a .5 micron chip!! Get the picture everyone? The jump to the .25 micron design is a damned big one, and the fallout for the performance of the microprocessor is concomitantly very significant. OK, Intel has teams working on the .12 micron, as well as .18 micron chip size, but they're not in there producing chips at that size (I think). The reality appears to be that there simply ISN'T that many outfits that CAN produce a highly efficient, improved performance, faster and reasonable time-to-market chip in the .25 micron configuration. This is by NO means highly informed and unquestionably accurate information, we're learning as we go, but that business of the sizes of the modem microprocessors is accurate.