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To: John Rieman who wrote (38155)	1/11/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Cox plans to launch digital TV services news.com By Corey Grice Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 11, 1999, 10:20 a.m. PT Cox Communications, one of the nation's biggest cable operators, said today it will launch digital services in its three largest markets using Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer 2000 set-top box. Cox will first roll out a digital television service offering 100 digital channels. The service is already being offered in Phoenix, Arizona, Cox's largest market with more than 600,000 customers, and will soon be available in San Diego and Oklahoma City. The deal with Scientific-Atlanta, first announced a year ago, allows Cox to offer other digital services without having to upgrade the set-top box hardware. Cox, a second-tier cable operator that claims 3.8 million subscribers, could also roll out video-on-demand (VOD) services, although no timetable has been established. Many industry experts say cable television operators, with their regional fiber optic networks, are well-positioned to deliver multiple services such as entertainment, telephone, and Internet access. Cox is part of the @Home Network cable modem Internet service. Several other cable operators, including Time Warner Cable, Tele-Communications Incorporated, and Comcast, have ordered Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer 2000 boxes.

To: John Rieman who wrote (38155)	1/11/1999 4:58:00 PM
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Japanese firms may team on chips news.com By Bloomberg News Special to CNET News.com January 11, 1999, 10:25 a.m. PT Toshiba, Japan's second-largest microchip maker, said it may form an alliance with Sony, the world's No. 2 consumer electronics maker, and Fujitsu to develop microchips. Toshiba Vice President Koichi Suzuki said his company would welcome a three-way alliance, allowing the companies to cut costs and shorten development times for devices such as logic chips, used to power future generations of consumer electronic products. "There would be great merit for us in linking up also with Sony, which is strong in consumer products, if it fits alongside our existing programs, and if Fujitsu were to agree," Suzuki said. "It's fully possible." Japanese and foreign chipmakers are teaming up to spread the cost of developing smaller, more powerful and sophisticated chips as the brains and memory of digital consumer electronics. The three companies already have separate two-way chip development agreements with one another, and Toshiba said on Friday it has developed the world's smallest dynamic random- access memory chip with IBM and Siemens AG. Demand for "system-on-a-chip" devices running future products such as wristwatches containing mobile phones is expected to balloon in the next few years. That'll help the overall world logic chip market to swell to about $35.2 billion in 2000 from $21.6 billion in 1997, said the Semiconductor Industry Association. Growing web of alliances Existing arrangements between the companies mean that "the base is there to talk about" further partnerships, said Fujitsu spokeswoman Yuri Momomoto. The benefits of pooling technology and cooperating with other companies lie in "cutting development costs and times to market," said Momomoto. Fujitsu, Japan's No. 1 computer maker, and Toshiba, which is also Japan's largest maker of notebook computers, agreed last month to share the burden of developing high capacity 1 gigabit dynamic random-access memory chips, for use in personal computers and digital consumer electronics from 2002.