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To: csw who wrote (1346)	8/10/1998 12:11:00 PM
From: ATELifer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2126

CSW, The big problem for HP is leveraging their digital and Mixed-signal capabilities. The HP83000 has been fairly successful and has great high-speed digital capabilities. The HP94xx series is their mixed-signal offering and has been hugely successful in Japan. The HP94000 is the next generation mixed-signal offering out of Japan and has not gained much market acceptance. The digital portion of the system is simply an improved version of the 94xx NOT the digital from the HP83000 and therefore WEAK. It also has limited pin count at 256 pins. Problem is they've not been sharing technologies to make a better mixed-signal solution targeted and higher speed and expanded digital pin counts like the other players out there. The systems come from distinctly different environments. In the huge subcontract markets of Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and the Philippines I think they have less than 10 systems installed compared to the 400+ Credence Vista/DUO, 100+ Synchro, 500+ Teradyne A5's / Catalysts. Getting the Germans and the Japanese to work together to come out with a killer SOC system seems like the imposible dream. -AL