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To: David who wrote (12561)	2/25/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Intel . . . Now, this one is scarier (from the Financial Mail, South Africa, February 26, 1999): ". . . leading hi-tech companies and research institutions are investing in encryption and identification technologies. Intel, for instance, is working on chips that will include real-time data encryption, voice recognition and biometric security systems." I'll be happy to take technical corrections on the following: If Intel decides to somehow incorporate biometric software elements inside a chip, that takes a lot of the profit out of the industry for other companies. Basically, if biometric instructions are on the chip, the rest of the industry tends to become commodity hardware producers. If Intel uses an IDX or IDT algorithm, great, although the software license margins would not be very high. This is a fundamentalist's worst-case scenario. Intel has made some modest investments in other biometric companies.

To: David who wrote (12561)	2/25/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Sheldon C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Perhaps you should be concerned about Polaroid, which did $1.8Billion in sales last year. The HAAPI/BioAPI stuff is not that important, SAFLINK can write to any standard. You can go to Germany next month and see the PFS100. By the way, Polaroid's stock was upgraded today. Note, they are going to Australia, watch out, they may impinge on your Giant "potential" there. A quote from their press release. Polaroid has been producing driver's licenses and identification cards for more than 40 years using photographic and, more recently, digital systems. The company currently produces driver's licenses in 37 U.S. states including California, Texas, Georgia, Hawaii and West Virginia. Polaroid's Georgia driver's license solution is the largest civil biometric system in place worldwide with more than 5 million drivers carrying licenses protected with fingerprint verification. Internationally, Polaroid produces identification documents for governments in more than 60 countries including Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Russia and China. Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, with principal manufacturing facilities in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nantes and Rousset, France and Heilbronn, Germany. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets on a worldwide basis advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using advanced CMOS, BiCMOS, BiPolar and SiGe process technologies. Polaroid Corporation, with annual sales of more than $1.8 billion in 1998, is the worldwide leader in instant imaging. Polaroid supplies instant photographic cameras and films; digital imaging hardware, software and media; medical diagnostic imaging media; secure identification systems; graphics imaging systems; sunglasses and polarizers to markets worldwide. Shalom, SC