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To: Elmer who wrote (43402)	12/15/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572631

I cannot disclose that information right now. You will know soon enough. More important is how many K6-3s AMD can make because they can sell them all... Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (43402)	12/15/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572631

AMD Investors - XILINX to Acquire MINC Didn't AMD/Vantis outsource their CPLD software development to MINC a few years ago? With MINC being acquired by Xilinx, a Vantis competitor, AMD/Vantis may find it even tougher to compete in the CPLD business. And it's not exactly like Vantis was a world beater to begin with ! Paul {====================================} ebnews.com Xilinx to acquire MINC assets Electronic Buyers' News (12/14/98, 08:08:22 PM EDT) Moving to gain competitive advantage in the battle for PLD-market dominance, Xilinx Inc. has made a bid to acquire some of the assets of MINC Inc., Redmond, Wa. MINC, a privately held supplier of PLD design tools, today announced its intention to liquidate the company and sell its technology. Xilinx, San Jose, said it is negotiating with MINC to purchase Design Navigator, a web-enabled tool for team-based design; the PLSynthesizer synthesis tool; and ABEL, a widely used CPLD high-level description language. If successful, the technology acquisitions will boost Xilinx's efforts on two fronts: enabling complex FPGA design over the Internet, and accelerating the company's CPLD market penetration. MINC's Design Navigator technology would enhance Xilinx's Silicon Xpresso Internet Team Design (ITD) software releases in 1999, allowing multiple design teams to work in parallel on the same design in real-time, Xilinx said. The PLD supplier also intends push more aggressively into the CPLD arena, which it entered two years ago, with the purchase of PLSynthesizer and ABEL technology. Xilinx plans to integrate the tools into its Foundation Series synthesis software in the first half of 1999, to offer designers a way to migrate to VHDL and Verilog with a single environment. Xilinx said it will continue to support the ABEL tool, which has an installed base of 50,000 seats worldwide and supports all the major PLD architectures.