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To: gbh who wrote (13157)	9/1/1999 8:44:00 AM
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Newbridge will use Intel architecture in some of its products. the and of the article PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news), the world's largest maker of semiconductors, said it will announce Wednesday a new design blueprint for developing networking chips and other products that will lead to faster, more efficient computer networks. Intel also plans to announce at the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday that it is starting a $200 million equity fund to invest in companies that decide to develop products around this new design initiative, called the Internet Exchange Architecture (IXA). The fund is called the Intel Communications Fund. ``We have provided the brains for the PC industry for some time,' said Mark Christensen, vice president and general manager of Intel's networking communications group. ``We see the opportunity to provide that for the Internet equipment industry.' Intel also plans to introduce 13 new products in the networking area, including a new network processor designed using the new architecture, a device it hopes will become the brain chip of many network routers. The new architecture will incorporate some of the technologies from Intel's recent acquisitions, such as networking chip maker Level One Communications, SoftCom Microsystems and Digital Equipment's semiconductor operations. Unlike a microprocessor architecture -- the blueprint for the brain chip of personal computers that describes a set of instructions inside a microchip -- Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture defines key elements and connections inside networking devices. While current networking devices use customized chips, which have fixed designs, Intel's new network processor and other products that can be designed with the IXA are reprogrammable, so they can direct traffic more quickly. Christensen said another advantage to the new network architecture is that it will give Intel and other companies a road map to develop networking products with more intelligence, so that telecommunications companies can use their future high- speed networks to their maximum capacity. ``It's a lot like an airline. You buy all these jumbo jets and you make sure that all the seats in that jet are full,' Christensen said. ``The goal is to make sure the network is full all the time.' Telecommunications companies would also be able to have more intelligence about what their customers are doing with the network, so they could have separate billing for voice traffic or for Internet traffic. Fifteen companies said they plan to use the architecture to design new networking products, Intel said, including Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - news), Newbridge Networks Corp. (NYSE:NN - news) and Cabletron Systems Inc. (NYSE:CS - news) .