[PCWeek Titbits - Brooktree new AMTX Competitor(?)]
April 14, 1997
The future's still unwritten for DSLs
By Bill Machrone
Like an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, digital subscriber lines are sure to make their impact on our communications infrastructure in the near future. Brooktree, a division of Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, has plans for a deep-space bomb that it hopes will alter the course in its favor.
Most of us skywatchers see ADSL as the natural winner. Brooktree sees it a little differently. It builds chips, not modems, and it's one of the world's largest suppliers of 2B1Q DSL chip sets. Brooktree's Ron
Cates posits a future in which the company gets a significant part of the DSL business, driven by what he describes as problems or shortcomings with ADSL. (See related story, "In remote access, medium may not fit all.")
Full story at: pcweek.com
April 16, 1997 6:00 PM ET
Compaq prepares to reach out and buy someone
By Margaret Kane
What might Compaq Computer Corp. do with the $4.7 billion in cash it has?
Buy something, most likely. Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason hinted broadly to analysts that more acquisitions--specifically in the "data communications" area--are in the offing. Later, in an interview with ZDNN, Mason said the company "tends to use" its cash reserves to grow the company. "I think what you'll see us putting together is a string of pearls that enable us to play in networking space," said Mason said in the interview. "We do plan [to fill any gaps in the string]."
Full story at: pcweek.com |
