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To: Steve Porter who wrote (58040)	6/15/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

re:<<The first is simple, it's a low cost solution. Intel doesn't have much experience offering low cost anythings, let alone CPUs. It will be interesting to see what Intel does to pricing and performance.>> True. It's quite a change from $600 to $10 chips. There are a lot of low cost solutions for the appliance market. I know they want to move the PII into the set top boxes, but the cable co's seemed to have said no thanks to the $300-$400 price tag. It seems like StrongArm might be a viable option for the low end set top boxes (if there is such a thing as low/high end set top boxes) re:<<The second is that at current it is not an integrate audio/video and computation core.>> That could be. Something seems to be delaying its introduction. They really havn't said much about it, but Intel is sort of like that. I guess they don't like to play their cards before they are ready. Dale

To: Steve Porter who wrote (58040)	6/16/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve - Re: "Intel doesn't have much experience offering low cost anythings, let alone CPUs." I think you don't have a clear understanding of Intel's breadth of products. Intel has a large (in volume) business in embedded microprocessors - i960s, 80C51/80C52/80C251, 80C196, etc. These processors sell in huge quantities and many of them sell for far less than $25/copy. These don't earn Intel huge profits so you don't hear much about them in the "media" press coverage. But they do earn profits for Intel, despite their low selling prices. Paul