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To: TwoToTango who wrote (55884)	8/4/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

<ot>Ref:IBM - here is some information which you might find interesting. Sorce:BBC-Uk Monday, August 3, 1998 Published at 20:08 GMT 21:08 UK Business: The Company File IBM computer chip advance IBM hopes to cash in on its new chips The US computer giant IBM has unveiled a breakthrough in the production of computer chips, which could revolutionise hand held personal computers linked to the Internet and e-mail. According to IBM, the introduction of the new chips will dramatically speed up computers and reduce their energy consumption. It could help with the introduction of pioneering computer features such as voice recognition. IBM appears to have won the race to develop a silicon insulator The new process is also likely to increase the battery life of mobile phones and lead to more compact handsets. IBM has discovered a new manufacturing process production which provides a unique way to improve the performance of computer microprocessors by reducing the power they need to operate. The new chips allow signals to travel much faster across the millions of transistors found on a thumbnail-sized microprocessor. Energy boost IBM said the new technology, called "silicon-on-insulator" (SOI) represented a fundamental advance in how chips are built. General manager of IBM's microelectronics division Mike Attardo said that with its "high performance and low power characteristics", SOI was "a significant breakthrough in chip technology." By insulating each transistor IBM can reduce the electrical interference that saps energy and performance. That means the newly designed chips use one-third less electricity than existing microprocessors. Other companies also have been working on the so-called "silicon-on-insulator" technology but IBM claims it will be the first company to produce it commercially. IBM said that the new process would initially add 10% to the cost of producing chips. The company plans to incorporate the process in chips in the first half of 1999. It is the second time in a year that IBM has made a technological breakthrough. Last September it announced an improved wire design for chips using copper which conducts electricity better than aluminium.

To: TwoToTango who wrote (55884)	8/4/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 176387

IBM's copper chip technology is just as important, and the effects have not been as earth-shattering as you might have expected. What it means for DELL is that every unit sold without the glass technology will be officially antiquated when the new chips come out. This means upgrades. This means higher sales. I would expect the chip to have a much more profound impact on the hand-held electronic devices, such as Palm Pilots and cell phones. In any event, as has been the case before, IBM will license the technology to the industry (to avoid anti-trust claims), and that's how IBM will make the bulk of their profit on this. LoD