Vincenzo, good post. Couple things caught my attention in the press release. There are some conflicting statements in the release.
New company throws its hat in the ring for dsl chipsets.
Centillium Corporation, a new semiconductor company made its official debut Monday with an innovative Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology that will allow consumers and businesses to surf the Web up to twenty times faster than with standard modems, using regular phone lines.
Then they say "Centillium plans to introduce DSL chip set solutions based on its UDSL technology later in 1998."
A Pioneer in Consumer-Oriented DSL Technology.
How can they be a pioneer when they were founded in April of 1997.
"Centillium has been developing consumer-oriented DSL technology since its founding -- almost a year before the PC industry leaders decided to advocate this type of technology," commented Faraj Aalaei, Centillium's vice president of marketing.
The PC industry has been advocating DSL for years. They just now decided to adopt a standard. Do the people at Centillium have their heads in the sand.
Mr. Elahian has co-founded two highly successful semiconductor companies, Neomagic and Cirrus Logic, as well as numerous other ventures.
I don't know about Neomagic, but I wouldn't call Cirrus Logic a highly successful semiconductor company.
"We believe Centillium's technology will create no less than a
revolution in communications," said
Mr. Elahian, Chairman and co- founder, Centillium Technology.
Maybe we should tell him about the Falcon chip.
UDSL uses a single pair of copper wires.
How many does Pairgain use?
Solving the Power Consumption Problem, Centillium is developing a highly integrated chip that contains the most DSL functionality on a single device.
I thought the Falcon chipset did that?
Centillium believes that its DSP technology is currently one full
generation ahead of the competition.
I wonder who they think their competition is!
IMO, Centillium would have been farther ahead just by buying stock in Pairgain.
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