Clipper Revived?

From Edupage:
     
     REPLACEMENT FOR CLIPPER
     AT&T and VLSI Technology Inc. will collaborate to develop microchips 
     that use a triple-strength version of DES (data encryption standard), 
     which previously had been rejected by the National Security Agency. 
     VLSI is the designated contractor to make the government-favored 
     Clipper chips, but this latest announcement reveals their doubts over 
     whether there's a market for the Clipper. "These companies have 
     basically made the determination that Clipper is dead and there's 
     going to be the proliferation of encryption anyway, so they might as 
     well take advantage of it," says one observer, who predicts the market 
     for such technology "could reach hundreds of millions" of dollars in 
     annual sales by the end of the decade. (Wall Street Journal 1/31/95 
     A3)
     
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> 
>      From Edupage:
>      
>      REPLACEMENT FOR CLIPPER
>      AT&T and VLSI Technology Inc. will collaborate to develop microchips 
>      that use a triple-strength version of DES (data encryption standard), 
>      which previously had been rejected by the National Security Agency. 
>      VLSI is the designated contractor to make the government-favored 
>      Clipper chips, but this latest announcement reveals their doubts over 
>      whether there's a market for the Clipper. "These companies have 
>      basically made the determination that Clipper is dead and there's 
>      going to be the proliferation of encryption anyway, so they might as 
>      well take advantage of it," says one observer, who predicts the market 
>      for such technology "could reach hundreds of millions" of dollars in 
>      annual sales by the end of the decade. (Wall Street Journal 1/31/95 
>      A3)

So, the question is, are these chips escrowed like Clipper (ie, are they
abandoning the standard because the phones are awful)? Or are they abandon-
ing the escrowed encryption altogether?