INTEL'S GROVE DEMONSTRATES "SMART CONNECTIONS" FOR THE WORLD AT TELECOM 95

GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 3, 1995 -- PCs connected to the communications
infrastructure, "Smart Connections," mark a fundamental change in the way
we communicate in the new digital world, said Dr. Andrew S. Grove,
president and CEO of Intel Corporation, during today's opening ceremony at
TELECOM 95 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Representing the industry, Dr. Grove was a keynote speaker along with South
African President Nelson Mandela and President of the European Union
Jacques Santer. TELECOM 95 is a leading worldwide event in
telecommunications and information technology, held once every four years
and attended by an expected 133,000 visitors from 52 countries.

"In the emerging new communications/computing industry, digital is the way
in which people create information, send it to one another and play it
back for viewing. They are doing this using the most ubiquitous digital
device ever, the personal computer," said Dr. Grove. Coining the term
"Smart Connection," for the intelligent PC at each end of the
telecommunications line, Dr. Grove outlined the PC industry's vision for
the connected PC for the business and home PC user.

Over a year in the making, Dr. Grove's presentation showcased the latest in
computer and communications technology, many of which have never been seen
before in public, to show how today's "Connected PC" will open the door to
a host of new applications. Technology from several top telecommunications
and computer companies was demonstrated via live communications links to
Africa and Japan and via the Internet. The participating companies include
Deutsche Telekom AG, Enter Television Inc., France Telecom,
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Kawashima Textile Manufacturers, Ltd., Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Nokia, and Telekom SA.

"SMART CONNECTIONS"

Using a new multipoint ProShare(TM) personal conferencing product, two
community hospitals were linked to the Geneva audience to demonstrate how
an ordinary personal computer combined with the digital telecommunications
infrastructure can improve the delivery of medical care in South Africa.
The three-way exchange of medical data utilized Intel's ProShare VS200
Conferencing system and a Hewlett-Packard 120-MHz Pentium(R)
processor-based PC and a combination of ISDN, microwave and satellite
communication technologies.

To show how "Smart Connections" help businesses work better, the audience
visited Kyoto, Japan, home of Kawashima Textile Manufacturers, Ltd. via
ProShare personal conferencing technology combined with a 120-MHz Pentium
processor-based HP 5000 desktop and a link from Geneva to Japan provided
by NTT. Through the connection, they were able to share information about
fabric design changes in real time.

Dr. Grove then conducted the first ever demonstration of mobile personal
conferencing from a Pentium processor-based laptop equipped with a
cellular GSM (Global Systems for Mobile) modem and advanced wireless
technology provided by Nokia. Dr. Grove was able to conduct a full voice,
data and video conference across the cellular connection.

"Imagine holding a meeting like this with an associate in Japan, while
you're in the back of a taxicab in Geneva," said Dr. Grove as he held the
notebook computer with the ongoing personal conferencing meeting clearly
displayed. A digital cellular connection can occur in many regions of the
world, even where land lines are non-existent.

CONNECTIONS TO THE PC

An important trend in "Smart Connections" is the deployment of higher
bandwidth data networks. With these advancements, PC home users will be
able to connect through their PC, create content and distribute it via the
communications network and have it received by virtually any other PC user
on the other end.

"Perhaps the most significant phenomena to occur in the PC industry and
communications industry in the past 10 years is the Internet," said Dr.
Grove. "Now every PC becomes a window through which users can connect to
every other computer in the world."

Computer users meet now on the Internet to exchange ideas and opinions by
typing to each other. But personal computers are becoming powerful enough
to handle natural data -- sound, pictures and video -- and can become much
more intuitive to use.

To demonstrate this point, Clovis Casali, a young French student, played an
interactive multiuser version of Monopoly* which performs in multiple
languages simultaneously between the players and even automatically
converts the Monopoly currency. This recent Virgin Interactive
Entertainment release of Monopoly, combines audio, video and sound effects
and was run on a Hewlett-Packard 90-MHz Pentium processor-based PC,
connected using a digital simultaneous voice and data modem.

Clovis then showed the audience how he can use his home page on the World
Wide Web to actually talk to his friends rather then typing messages and
waiting for answers. He entered a "chat window" which was an actual 3D
space using multipoint communications and real time voice technology
developed by Enter Television, Inc. on an Intel Pentium(R) Pro
processor-based system. He was joined by two other youths who were
represented in the space as talking heads. The graphical representations
of their faces had full lip synchronization capabilities while talking in
real time.

"Technology can bring to life a virtual community of people while they are
visiting a site on the World Wide Web," explained Dr. Grove. "This is a
Smart Connection that is right around the corner. Through digital
information processed and transmitted between personal computers, people
thousands of miles apart can seem to gather in a single room."

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of
personal computer, networking and communications products.
 
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