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To: Rob C. who wrote (19877)	10/13/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: D. K. G.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

From INTC press release: As planned, Intel is approaching the completion of the 0.25 micron conversion and expects to exit 1998 with all microprocessor shipments manufactured on the 0.25 micron process technology. Intel's implementation of the 0.18 micron process technology is scheduled to begin in the first half of 1999.

To: Rob C. who wrote (19877)	10/15/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Anthony Lore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

From today's MacInTouch page, IBM yesterday announced its PowerPC 405 processor, and this sort of design appears to hold great potential for a computer like Apple's unannounced consumer portable. Don Summers writes: "It runs at up to 200MHz, while the CPU core only consumes 400 milliwatts of power By comparison, a PowerPC G3 (CPU + cache) consumes 5000 milliwatts. The PowerPC 405 includes a Multiply and Accumulate Unit (MAC) for soft modems, disk controllers, and JPEG decompression. It supports attachment of a Floating Point Unit directly to the processor execution pipeline. Separate instruction and data caches up to 16 kilobytes each may be added. On-chip Ethernet, USB, and SDRAM control is available. Options will increase power consumption somewhat. The 200 MHz version is implemented in 0.25-micron silicon and it looks like IBM is already planning a 267MHz follow-on in 0.18 micron silicon. Basically the IBM PowerPC 405 could mean a medium speed Macintosh on one inexpensive, low power chip."