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To: unclewest who wrote (26817)	8/10/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

here is another one of those possible inconsequential design wins for rambus. would just be another little drop in the bucket. doesn't mean much... sorry i'm even mentioning it. unclewest 08/10/99, 12:04 p.m. EDT) SAN JOSE, Calif. ? Toshiba Corp. this week will announce its first chip set for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networking as part of the company's push to become a player in semiconductors for wide-area networks. The chips include a switch access multiplexer (SAM), a switch element (SE) and a distributor and arbiter (DA). All three are 3.3-V parts. The SAM and SE are manufactured in 0.30-micron CMOS, the DA in 0.40-micron CMOS. The chips are for use in ATM switches and WAN access cards. They can also be used in Internet Protocol routers that need to connect to ATM infrastructure. The SAM by itself is a standalone ATM switching node that can run at 622 Mbits/second. Combined with the SE device, the two form a switching fabric that can run at speeds up to 5 Gbits/s. Finally, a combination of multiple SEs and DAs with a SAM can run networks at up to 20 Gbits/s. Toshiba is hoping to gain an advantage in the ATM market through pricing. Its chip set provides a 5-Gbit/s ATM switching fabric for less than $1,000, the first such chip set priced that low, said Moon Kim, director of technical marketing for Toshiba's networking products. Plans for future products won't be rounded out until Toshiba gets more customer feedback, as company officials don't feel they have the clout to forge a direction on their own. "Toshiba is not well-known in the networking industry," Kim said. Second versions of the SAM and SE are likely, with support added for synchronous optical network (Sonet) at OC-48 (2.4-Gbit/s) speeds and up to 64,000 virtual channels. Support for the Rambus memory bus is a possibility but not definite, Kim said. Other possibilities include an expansion into the digital-subscriber-line space or creation of SAMs with both IP and ATM switching capabilities.