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To: E. Graphs who wrote (15253)	9/25/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: patrick tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

I was the one who asked about Firewire - asking whether LSI is into it? Any idea? patrick

To: E. Graphs who wrote (15253)	9/25/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

E: It looks like the Blackbird thing from Motorola doesn't it? Many moons ago (well over a year ago - boy I have spent a lonnggggg time here!) we had talked about how LSI should and most likely would integrate everything and how since LSI did the DVD thing well (first or top 3 in market share), the STB thing well (2nd in market share) and Video Game thing well (first in market share) and Sony was happy with them (duh! - 25% of revenues for the group from 0% in 1993) that it would make sense for LSI to do the whole shindig. Presumably LSI does not just put up new chip specs up on their web site just for the heck of it! And presumably since Nintendo is already 64 bit and Sega has their version and Sony does the DVD thing with LSI well, put everything together and that could be the next chip for Sony. Unless some new company is trying to move in on Sony - yup good luck to that new company whoever they are - going against Sony in consumer electronics is for the most part like going up against Microsoft or Intel in their domains. So I think it is the Sony chip but we'll find out soon enough. As to the bit about the reduction in Sony revenue that was just a WAG on my part - I have not seen anything indicating that Sony is moving to PlayStation II anytime soon - but then again Sony is not stupid! The trick is to keep everything under wraps, bring inventory of old machines down dramatically and then announce the new machine - maybe for the Christmas season (though it seems too late that's why I am not fully certain about a new machine anytime soon). Otherwise the company would be left with a lot of inventory of old machines that would not sell because consumers would just put off buying and wait for the new machine. Some of the PC companies should learn from this - but they are in a different market and things do work differently there! Now what was the "QLogic score back a few posts"??? (I'm getting older and the memory is slip slidin' away... ) Shane.