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To: Brewmeister who wrote (4830)	4/24/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: bob	Respond to of 8581

Dan, FWIW coming from a layperson I don't think there will be any such thing as a "standard" java chip. From what I have read the pico based chips, if and when they make it to market, will be aimed at very specific applications each. The chips are being designed individually for their own application(s) but won't be very practical for much else due to factors such as cost, power, functionality, etc. I think all the pico chips will be alot more expensive than ours for instance, and in embedded applications, at least on the low end of things, price- performance, and not just performance, is the key. Would you use a $20 chip when you could get the same or better performance out of a chip costing $10? I don't think so, especially if there were going to be millions of items produced, like telephones for instance. It is for this reason along with several other factors such as simplicity of design and versatility (the number of applications a chip would be used for) that makes the PSC1000 such a strong contender for the embedded java marketplace. Remember too that it will be imperative for these chips to process other languages like C/C++ as well as the world makes it's transition to pure java and the pico chips may not do that as efficiently. This is all JMHO of course. Cap