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Technology Stocks : Broadcom (BRCM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith A Walker who wrote (941)	3/1/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: Bahama	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6531

Hello Keith, I guess I'd disagree with your disagreement<g>. To be a mainstream product, changing hardware isn't viable. For one thing, most people aren't too adept at desoldering multi-hunderd-pin fine pitch packages (or worse yet,a BGA package). The type of socket you'd need for such an application is too expensive for such a cost-sensitive market at the moment. When you have a thousand-plus dollar computer system, the cost of a socket can be more easily "absorbed." A minor technicality, but you probably wouldn't be changing the processor if such an option were available. You'd be changing an ASIC (probably the MAC since the PHY is a more serious functional change) or changing an EEPROM with the firmware the processor runs (a Motorola processor in the case of BRCM).