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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (74908)	3/1/1999 2:03:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Your criticism of Brian Halla is totally unjustified. Scumbria

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (74908)	3/1/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jimbo - Re: "Is it my imagination or did Halla announce the PCOAC a year ago " Eleven months ago : {=============================} Sunday April 5, 5:10 pm Eastern Time National Semiconductor to unveil "PC on a chip" By Therese Poletti SAN FRANCISCO, April 5 (Reuters) - National Semiconductor Corp. Monday plans to announce a way to combine most of the chips used in personal computers into a single chip, which could bring PC prices under $500 and lead to a host of new computing devices. National, the country's fourth-largest chip maker, said its new chip will replace a dozen or more separate chips typically found in PCs and combine technologies that it has developed and purchased in recent years. ''Everything we have been doing is putting all the pieces together,'' National's Chief Executive Brian Halla said in an interview. National, based in Santa Clara, Calif., completed a $500 million merger with Cyrix Corp., a maker of Intel Corp. compatible clone chips, in November, giving it an arsenal of products to create a PC with one chip, excluding system memory. Other key moves included its purchase of Mediamatics in March 1997 for its graphics and television encoding technology and Pico Power in August 1996 for system logic. National said its new chip will lead to even lower cost PCs and other low-cost ''information appliances.'' Halla predicted PC prices could fall to $400 to $500 with National's new chips. ''The pricing is up to the PC suppliers, but what we are trying to do is ... put more functionality on the chip by putting more and more intelligence on the chip,'' he said. Halla will discuss plans for the new chip at a semiconductor industry conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Monday. He said National will have the first working version of its chip by year-end and it could be in volume production by June 1999. {==========================} Heard anything about "working versions" last year? MXi ? Cayenne ? Hallapano ? Pepperoni ? Stuft Pizza ? Paul