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To: James Connolly who wrote (4307)	2/20/1999 11:05:00 AM
From: James Connolly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

Some interesting facts about Ti, DSP chips and technology in general. ti.com About 154 million digital wireless phones were sold in 1998 - and TI DSPs powered most of those phones. Right now, 383,000 digital cellular phones are sold every day Right now, 166 million people have pager services Right now, 40% of home Web users are between the ages of 12 and 17 Right now, there are 18,900 new Internet users every day Right now, people use products containing a DSP as often as every 10 minutes Right now, worldwide DSP sales average $9.3 million per day Right now, analog sales average $60.2 million per day Right now, purchases over the Internet are increasing at the rate of $10 billion per year Right now, a typical hard disk drive has a capacity of 3 to 5 Gbytes… in 5 years they will have 10 times the capacity Right now, demand for networked products is growing at a rate of 20% annually Right now, 9,800 digital still cameras are shipped each day; in four years, it will be 51,780 per day Right now, a 911 operator is having trouble locating a caller in distress. Right now, engineers are working to put GPS systems in every digital cell phone Right now, digital cellular phone shipments have increased 64% over last year Right now, over half the world's population has never made a phone call Right now, there are 104 million PCs connected to the Internet… within 4 years that number will triple Today, 3,552 high-speed modems have been shipped…the next generation of modems will be 100 times faster than those Right now, Internet users average 5-1/2 hours online per week Right now, there are more than 320 million Web pages The European Internet market grew 60% in 1998 Today, 21, 600 Europeans connected to the Internet for the first time Today, 3, 000 people have made the decision to telecommute to work Right now, wherever there is a DSP you will find analog products as well Today, $9.3 million of DSPs and $60 million of analog products have been sold Today, 123,552 pagers have been shipped Today, more than $10.5 million worth goods have been purchased over the Internet Regards JC.