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To: Daniel My Brother who wrote (15971)	11/12/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: patrick tang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

Looks like PSII will be 'shared with Toshiba', with Toshiba probably having the lions share of the 'brains', with core and MPEG2. Then what is LSI going to add? Graphics, sound, modem & networking? Strange? And who is going to supply DRAM? DDR or Rambus? With that kind of 'dis-integration', might as well go full PC. By Q2 '99, K6-2 with NSP, eh... 3-D NOW, will be <$50 bulk. Do OpenGL, Glide, D3D and what have you too. Really wondering what that system is going to look like. PlayStation is a coveted system win among IC makers, and Toshiba's coup reflects that company's growing prowess in the system-on-a-chip era. But the high-profile work apparently will not bump LSI Logic Inc. (LSI) out of its PlayStation sockets. Elie Antoun, an LSI vice president in charge of consumer IC product development, said his understanding is Toshiba silicon will reside alongside ASICs from LSI Logic in the next go-round. "I can't exactly comment, but the anecdotal evidence is Toshiba silicon may be in there, too," said Antoun, who until last summer, was president of LSI Logic's Japan subsidiary. "I am highly confident ASICs from LSI will be there. We are designing something quite significant that will go in that [next-generation] box, but who else is in the box I cannot say." techweb.com patrick