Commenting on some very healthy year-end figures (page five), Consett, County Durham-based Integrated Micro Products Plc – for the benefit of UK subscribers, yes, like the snack-maker, it really does live in Medomsley Road – says that the year has been marked by development of key partnerships in the telecommunications sector with its ftSparc product line, which adds fault-tolerance to full compatibility with Sun Microsystems Inc’s product line, and has been installed for testing since the fiscal year end with DSC Communications Corp, NEC America Inc and Qualcomm Inc: Motorola Inc remains a major customer, and next year, a 68060-based version of the XM-68 is planned – and Integrated Micro is still shipping its 88100 RISC-based Unix machines to Motorola as well.