Quotes of the Week,March 10-14

"We're going to see lines to xDSL modems, set-top boxes, Web TVs, digital VCRs and digital cameras. There are 650 million copper connections in the world and 80 per cent can be converted to xDSL." - Charles Cotton, chief operating officer for ATML

"In 1997, our major five-year investment in 32-bit technologies will begin to be realised commercially." - David Potter, Psion chairman

"AOL members are not interested in technology for its own sake." - AOL's Karen Thomson

"There have been benchmarks for Pentium II before but they're not necessarily for final version silicon [of Pentium II]." - Intel's Chris Hogg

"Intel moved to Slot One to move people on and freeze Cyrix and us out." - AMD's Richard Baker

"We are not creating a new computing paradigm. We are creating a design which will help save costs." - Intel's Pat Gelsinger on the NetPC

"We're not changing horses. We're 100 per cent behind K56flex." - Hayes' Bill Pechey