Lucent Technologies Signs Up Four More PC Manufacturers for New Modem Chip Set
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies has signed up four additional desktop PC manufacturers for its new modem communications chip set. Legend Computer Systems, NEC Corp. [Nasdaq:NIPNY - news], Packard Bell NEC, and Samsung Electronics are using Lucent's digital signal processor (DSP)-based solution, called Mars(TM)-2.
The company also announced that Dell Computer Corp. [Nasdaq:DELL - news] is using Lucent's Apollo(TM) DSP1644-based chip set in its newest line of Inspiron 7000(TM) notebook computers. ActionTec Electronics, Inc., designed and manufactured the internal modem module containing the Lucent chip set that has been embedded within Dell's PCs.
The addition of these new customers helps extend Lucent's PC-market winning streak, which recently has been named -- yet again -- the world's number one seller of modem chip sets integrated within PCs*. Lucent has shipped more than 4 million Mars-2 chip sets since May of this year.
Mars-2, which consists of the DSP1646, CSP1034 line codec and an optional CSP1027 voice codec, is a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)-compliant chip set. It ranks among the industry's smallest, lowest power-consuming, and lowest cost modem chip sets. The Mars-2 DSP1646 is approximately 66 percent smaller than the Mars-1 DSP1645 Lucent introduced last year.
Mars-2 helped position Lucent as one of the first modem chip manufacturers to help its customers display the ''Designed for Windows'' logo on Microsoft Windows 98 products, and benefit from the considerable positive recognition of the Microsoft brand. Mars-2 powered one of the first controller-less PCI modems to pass PC 97 OnNow/Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface ''Designed for Windows'' logo requirements.
Both the Mars-2 and Apollo chip sets to be used by these customers enable modems to transmit data at up to 56 kilobits per second (kbps)**, and are compatible with the International Telecommunications Union's V.90 56 kbps modem standard.
Further details of the agreements are as follows:
-- Lucent has already started shipping Mars-2 to Legend, China's largest
desktop PC manufacturer. Based in Beijing, Legend plans to have
products containing Lucent's modem chip sets on store shelves in China
by November 11.
-- NEC Corp., based in Tokyo, Japan, is scheduled to start shipping
desktop PCs and notebook PCs containing Mars-2 this month.
Sacramento, Calif.-based Packard Bell NEC will use Mars-2 in its
Packard Bell and NEC-ready branded PCs that have started shipping.
Packard Bell NEC, a private company that is 52.8 percent owned by NEC
Corp., is the fifth largest desktop PC manufacturer in the world****.
-- Korea-based Samsung Electronics, the leading company in Korea's PC
market, is currently shipping MagicStation Series desktop PCs
containing Mars-2.
For more product information, customers may call the Microelectronics Group Customer Response Center, 800-372-2447, Dept. R83 (in Canada, 800-553-2448, Dept. R83); fax number 610-712-4106 (especially for callers outside of North America); or write to Lucent Technologies, Room 30L-15P-BA, 555 Union Boulevard, Allentown, Pa., 18103.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its web site at lucent.com.
Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. Information about The Lucent Edge campaign, which aims to boost modem sales and enduser confidence in current and future modem technologies, can be found at www.lucent.com/micro/edge. More information about Lucent's high-speed modem technology can be found on the Microelectronics Group's web site at lucent.com and at www.lucent.com/micro/K56flex.
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