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Reports on the agreement on principle of Rockwell International's Telecommunications business segment to buy Western Digital's water fabrication facility in Irvine, California. Rockwell's push for advanced commercial integrated circuits (IC) market; Western Digital's reduction of bank debts; Specific elements in the deal.

Reports on the introduction by Apple Computer Inc. of its Newton MessagePad handheld communicator. Features and functions; Specifications; Use of Intel flash memory storage cards.

Reports on the joint venture between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Intergraph Corp. to develop a 64-bit UltraSparc processor for use in high-end systems by both companies. Hitachi Ltd. as a foundry for SuperSparc processors; Questions on Intergraph's commitment to its Clipper processor and Sun's Windows NT strategy; Candidates for the processor's manufacturing; Intergraph's loss for the second quarter, 1993.

Reports on the plan of Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to provide iridium satellites and engineering support to Motorola Satellite Communications Division (SATCOM). Awardees of subsystems contracts; Construction of 73 satellites as the first phase of the contract; Scheduled launching in 1996; Iridium constellation to serve as digital switching network in space; Other applications.

Reports on the computer products of several electronic industries. International Microelectronics Products; Cyrix; Paradigm Technology; Samsung Semiconductor; Atmel; More.

Reports on developments in the computer industry. ATI Technologies and Intel's Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect specification for integrating full-motion video and graphics on the personal computer; Cirrus Logic's development of a second-generation chipset for Apple Computer's Newton; Samsung Semiconductor's production of CMOS-based 16-megabit dynamic RAMs; Okidata's single-board printer; Atmel's eight-device gate array family; More.

Reports on the development of a scalable Pentium-based parallel processing system by Intel Supercomputer Systems Division and Unisys. Commercial one-line transaction processing market as target; Integration of Unisys' Unix V.4 operating system with Intel's Pentium processors and scalable parallel processing (SPP) mesh interconnect technology; Unisys' plan of developing environmental and application software for SPP systems.

Reports on the product introductions by several electronics companies. Trident Microsystems' PC View video processor; Samsung Semiconductor's liquid crystal display (LCD) controllers; Kawasaki Steel's KC80 microprocessor; Destiny Technologies' page printer processor; Opti Inc.'s VESA SCSI interface device.

Looks at VLSI Technology Inc.'s effort at developing a family of components centered on a re-engineered x86 microprocessor core for use in personal digital assistants. Polar MPU; Features and capabilities; Packaging; Architecture as communications-centric.

Reports on product releases by electronics companies. IBM's clock-tripling 486 microprocessors, code-named Blue Lighting; IBM Technology Products's fax/modem cards based on the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) standard; Rockwell International's V.Fast-Class data/fax modem chipsets supporting data rates from 19.2 to 28.8Kbps; More.

Focuses on Tandem Computer's migration to RISC-based Unix-compatible servers. Tandem lineup of fault tolerant computers based on Mips R3000 and R4400 processors; K100 and K1000 series; TorusNet `3-D' interconnect system; Restructuring plan; Posix-based NonStop kernel basic operating system; Teaming with Unix System Laboratories Inc. to develop the NonStop TUXEDO Enterprise Transaction System.

Reports on Silicon Graphics Inc.'s introduction of its Indy multimedia system and Indigo Magic graphical user interface software. Availability and power source of the Indy; Silicon president and chief executive officer Edward R. McCracken on the products; Two-way evolution of the Indy; Indigo configurations; Indigo Magic software; Expected response from Apple Computer; Product features; Indy's optional color monitors.

Reports on Intel Corp.'s ramping of the production of its flash memory circuits in the face of a prolonged worldwide flash shortage. Percentage of increase in flash unit output; Subcontractor NPNX of Tateyama, Japan; Phasing in the same 0.8-micron process; Completion of a 20 percent clean room expansion; Sharp Corp.'s ramping of Intel's 0.6-micron ETOX IV process technology; Industry observers on Intel's campaign.

Reports on Apple Computer Inc.' plans to reduce about 16 percent of its worldwide workforce as part of its restructuring effort under chief executive officer Michael Spindler. Observation on its effect on worldwide sales; Spindler's action to head off losses while the company ramps up products.

Reports on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) introduction of three Am486 microprocessors containing AMD-developed Intel-compaatible microcode. Features and prices; AMD's verification of the compatibility of the `cleanroom' microcode with over 100 million test vectors; Intel Corp.'s filing a suit against AMD on the `tainted' microcode; California Sixth District Court of Appeal's denial of AMD's request for a rehearing on the x86 MPU dispute with Intel.

Reports on Cirrus Logic Inc.'s sampling of the integrated CL-MD1414ECT and 'ECP V.32bis data/fax /voice modem chipsets for use in desktop, portable and PDA systems and PCMCIA cards. Functions; Features; Prices; Observation by Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Research.

Reports on developments in the computer industry. Texas Instruments's introduction of the SuperSparc Plus microprocessor; Lattice Semiconductor's introduction of two PLDs for low-power desktop and laptop systems; Samsung Semiconductor's introduction of three world-wide static random access memories (SRAMs); More.

Reports on Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics' release of mid-range graphics workstations and subsystems. Sun Microsystems' SPARCstation 10TurboGXplus, SPARCstation ZX and SPARCstation 10ZX; Silicon Graphics' Indigo2XL and Indigo2XZ; Sun's development of `SX' imaging technology; Sun Video card.