0134.5 Information Appliances

    Motorola Announces Alliance with Palm

0134.6 Audio

    Pioneer's XM Satellite Tuners Available in September

    (http://www.wave-report.com/Tutorials/XM.htm)

    Toshiba Microcontroller with SD Memory Card Controller

0134.7 Standards

    Progress Made on IEEE 802.17 RPR Standard

    (http://www.wave-report.com/Tutorials/IEEE.htm)

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0134.1 Hot Topics

***Wink’s Broadcasting Service Reaches More Than One Million U.S. Cable Households

(July 23)

Wink Communications has announced that the Company's Enhanced Broadcasting services reach more than one million cable homes – an increase of 5X from a year ago. North American cable subscribers in 44 cable systems are able to subscribe to the company’s broadcasting services - up from 17 systems the same time last year.

Wink is currently deployed in cable systems with Adelphia, AT&T Broadband, Charter, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable. The Wink service is included as a standard feature for all Charter, Adelphia and Comcast digital cable customers.

There are currently thirty-two networks partnered with Wink that are adding interactivity to their programming and advertisements. In total there are more than two thousand hours of programming each week are being enhanced with Wink's technology. More than six out of ten homes that have Wink are using it regularly and with some frequency.

http://www.wink.com

***Cambridge Animation Systems Ships Swiffworks for Maya 4.0

(July 25)

Cambridge Animation Systems, maker of Animo software, has begun shipping Swiffworks for Maya 4.0, the latest version of its plug-in that delivers Macromedia Flash (.swf) output to users of Alias|Wavefront's Maya. As a special offer, Swiffworks is available until August 31 for $199, or $299 bundled with Inkworks, Cambridge's toonshader.

The plug-in allows users to choose a Swiffworks material or use the default Phong material provided by Maya. Swiffworks materials provide the following added capabilities:

· Independent control of ink lines and painted regions, allowing line thickness to be animated and colored separately from the painted areas

 Control over the color, width and generation of ink lines, including folds, silhouettes, region lines, borders and intersection lines

The Swiffworks renderer is fully integrated into Maya 4.0. Swiffworks will also be available on IRIX and Mac OS X later this year. Swiffworks normally sells for $575 or $800 in a bundle with Inkworks.

http://www.cambridgeanimation.com

***Envara's WiND Wireless LAN Chipset Design Offers Dual-Mode Compatibility With Both IEEE 802.11a and b

(July 23)

Envara has announced that its WiND wireless chipset design, which will operate in the 5GHz band, will also offer compatibility with 2.4GHz, IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi) compliant wireless LAN devices. The WiND chipset will therefore offer the following advantages (enabled by 5GHz technology): higher data rates, larger network capacity and less interference.

Additional features included in the WiND chipset will include enhanced Media Access Control (MAC) features enabling:

  Security for complete data privacy (802.11i)

  Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) and Transmit Power Control (TPC) for worldwide radio regulation conformance and out-of-the-box installation (802.11h)

  QoS for users with streaming multimedia requirements (802.11e).

The WiND dual mode IEEE 802.11a+b chipset design is a 2 chip solution that includes an integrated baseband chip with built-in MAC and dual IEEE 802.11a+b modem functionality, and a low cost RF chip with an integrated dual band 2.4 and 5GHz implementation. The chipsets will begin sampling in 4Q2002, and will be available under $30 in quantities of 100K units and more. Single mode 5GHz chipsets will begin sampling in 2Q2002, and will be accompanied by reference designs for dual mode wireless LAN products.

http://www.envara.com

For more information on IEEE Standards go to:

http://www.wave-report.com/Tutorials/IEEE.htm

0134.2 Story of the Issue

***Shareholder Sues Transmeta Corporation for Securities Fraud

(July 23)

A shareholder has sued Transmeta claiming that the company misled investors about its main product, the law firm of Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo said. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and is pending before Chief Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull. It seeks damages for violations of federal securities laws on behalf of all investors who bought Transmeta stock between November 7, 2000 and June 20, 2001 (the "Class Period").

The complaint accuses Transmeta and several of its top officers with issuing false and misleading statements about its principal product, the Crusoe line of microprocessors. According to the lawsuit, the defendants made false claims about the technology that enabled the Crusoe chips to consume less energy while delivering high performance to mobile Internet computers. The company made these claims in documents related to its November 7, 2000 initial public offering and throughout the Class Period.

The statements powered Transmeta stock to a high of $50.875 per share and enabled five of the defendants to sell 829,500 shares of their Transmeta stock for more than $10.5 million in May 2001. But only weeks after those sales took place, Transmeta said that its results for the second quarter of 2001 would be worse than projected and that it would be forced to take a multimillion-dollar inventory charge because of defective and outdated products.

After the company's announcement, Transmeta stock fell to $5.12 a share before closing at $5.36 a share, 89% off its Class Period high.

***WAVE Comments

In these times of depressed stock prices let the technology company beware of class action suits. Transmeta raised high levels of expectation about its performance and potential to challenge Intel. Yet, the true performance was carefully held back until systems were actually shipping, and the performance could be measured by independent 3rd parties. Now some of the shareholders are crying foul. Even in the best of times management is open to threats of suits when the stock tanks. Transmeta is going to have to explain its actions and ability to execute.

0134.3 Chips

***SEMI Announces Mid-Year Consensus Forecast for Chip Equipment Industry

(July 16)

Manufacturers of semiconductor equipment expect the industry to decline 35 percent from the $47.7 billion posted in 2000, according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Consensus Forecast, released by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Survey respondents anticipate the industry to ship $31 billion of chip manufacturing, testing and assembly equipment in 2001.

The forecast also indicates that the capital equipment market will grow 11.6 percent in 2002, to reach $34.6 billion; and 22.5 percent in 2003 to $42.4 billion.

The SEMI Consensus Forecast includes input from 71 of the trade association's member companies in the United States, Europe and Japan. The forecast results are based on data collected between May and June 2001 by the SEMI Industry Research and Statistic department. Responding companies represent more than 85 percent of the total sales volume for the global semiconductor equipment industry.

http://www.semi.org

0134.4   3D

***ARM and Superscape Announce Collaboration to Develop Interactive 3D Software On Wireless Devices

(July 24)

ARM, a provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and Superscape, an interactive 3D company, announced that they are to collaborate on the development of interactive 3D (i3D) enabling technology for wireless devices. This relationship will enable a generation of multimedia for 2.5 and 3G mobile phones for applications including entertainment, information services, personalized navigation and messaging systems.

Under the terms of the agreement, Superscape will license their SWERVE i3D software engine to ARM.

Superscape specializes in small file sizes (for fast download) and visual quality. The company's i3D technology for wireless devices, is capable of delivering interactive services on both 2G and 2.5G networks, prior to the introduction of the 3G roll out. The new technology, which will provide an 'engine' and content authoring capabilities, has been designed to integrate with other development tools, such as Java technology, to encourage the proliferation of i3D content for wireless devices.

http://www.arm.com

http://www.superscape.com

Learn more about i3D and Superscape’s products:

http://www.wave-report.com/tutorials/i3d.htm

***Virtools Expands its Offer to E-Marketing, E-Learning and Games