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Technology Stocks : ADI: The SHARCs are circling! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Time Traveler who wrote (1218)	2/8/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

I do not believe the MMX tech had anything to do with the JV. MMX is strictly instructions that extend the graphics capability of the CISC CPU. Although DSP's can function as a graphics compute engines that do to the high sustained math through put, the announcement indicated that the first fruits of the JV would be a fixed point DSP silicon chip. IMHO, Intel will use ADI tech to implement System-on-a-chip functionality. A CPU core with DSP co-processor, and embedded SRAM. Maybe MMX will improve, but not solely because of the link to ADI. Maybe INTC tried to link up with LU and/or TI but were rebuked. ADI is a good partner for Intel. Jim