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To: HerbVic who wrote (18568)	9/27/1998 4:51:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213184

Herb, Cyrix is not being absorbed by Intel but by National Semiconductor. Cyrix is a competitor to Intel - but not a very successful one as of yet. "IBM also plans to build accessory chips and custom silicon for future Netfinity models using the company's industry-leading chip-building processes: copper and silicon-on-insulator. " This is a quote from IBMs site regarding their Netfinity line. Herb, Netfinity is a Wintel platform using PII, PPro and now Xeon processors. They apparently intend on enhancing their Wintel server offering with their copper and SOI technology. The Intellistation is their workstation line and it also is Wintel. Both their server and workstation line is embracing Intel Xeon chips which allow thus far 4 processors per board. Additionally, IBM is in the midst of a push to leverage their mainframe technologies to enhance their server and to some extent their workstation lines. This is where clustering comes in that presently allows up to 24 Xeon processors to be linked in up to 12 machines that can effectively act as a mainframe. Their PC line as well as their portable line is of course Wintel based. As we all know IBMs Thinkpad is probably the Powerbooks most direct Wintel competitor. IBMs Network computer has embraced Citrix metaframe that is basically an NT thin client environment although it does allow for Macs to operate in a combined thin client environment. In short their is absolutely no evidence that IBM intends to sacrifice any of it's Wintel product line from PCs up to servers and add PPC Mac based products. This is one of Apple's great difficulties in expansion beyond the typical Mac market and marketshare - their major chip manufacturer is also their competitor. Rich