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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (14735)	9/3/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Respond to of 25814

Mark: There is a bigger thing to the whole Symbios thing that I neglected to mention and that is the bigger picture of I/O functionality in particular the IEEE 1394 functionality that Symbios is very very well respected in and is very very high on. To remind anyone else of the importance of Firewire (1394), it is going to be the Interface between everything you and I have that is remotely technically related. It will be the lingua franca between future PC related and consumer electronics peripherals and will be a huge market for anyone with the leadership in the segment (Symbios, TI I think, IBM). (As proof of Symbios' importance they are on the standards committee here and as anyone knows he who makes or influences the standards with already lots of experience is golden)... On why I think storage is good for the object web: Call me old fashioned but I think the intelligence on the web is too fluid. To capture a snapshot of a rapidly changing medium needs local storage. It will take a bit of time for bandwidth to lead storage demands on but it will come (since bandwidth is doing the 1000% increase per year thing). Once that happens virtually every PC then can become a server. Maybe a server with a 100 Gig hard drive (no snickering here). People may say 100 Gig is too much but to that I say o really. To be a server the machine needs to have client, server and middleware. This is bloatware and means everything from ORBs to GUIs to the usual server thingies like a mail server, database server, TP Monitor + all the data itself.... That will eat up 100 Gigs of hard drive space in a heartbeat... And BTW if this is a bit too futuristic (we could all access our local information independent of the server through wireless 1394 interfaces <g>) for Mr. LSI, remember that for the immediate time being, a lot of functionality will be migrating to the traditional servers + the app servers etc. Plus the biggie - set top boxes will all implement HDDs at some point (+ DVD drives - yet another reason why DIVX has a tough road ahead.) This places Symbios' FC implementations in the HDD industry in good stead. Finally of course Gresham could use some higher volume chips.... [Your note about Cirrus (and I think LU is close too) really applies to the PC industry - a place that LSI does not play in. Also I only browsed real quickly through the CRUS release and I do not know if a SCSI interface for example is built in. Do you know???]