Gigabit Ethernet market set to explode:
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Chip vendors are flocking to gigabit Ethernet, which has the
potential to become the next high-speed networking
technology.
Although chip sales will amount to less than $10 million this
year, market researcher In-Stat of Scottsdale, AZ, expects the
market to balloon to nearly $700 million in 2001. That's luring
many semiconductor companies, including VLSI Technology,
Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, LSI Logic, Seeq
Technology and start-up XaQti, to turn out chips to perform
the switching, access and transceiver functions for gigabit Ethernet gear. The fiber-based
technology is expected to get a boost when standards are finalized this spring.
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Again LSI very well-positioned here. |
