To: quartersawyer who wrote (6195 ) 2/3/2000 8:09:00 PM From: slacker711 Respond to of 13582
On the topic of DSPC....got this from q_cumber2000 over on the Yahoo thread. Reminds me a little of US Robotics...founders of the company leave after selling the company.ebnonline.com DSPC executives leave Intel for modem company By Mark LaPedus Electronic Buyers' News (02/03/00, 09:46:21 AM EDT) Three executives from Intel Corp.'s newly acquired DSP Communications (DSPC) subsidiary-including the company's top officer-have resigned in the hope they can repeat their success at a wireless-broadband modem company called Vyyo Inc. Leaving Intel is DSPC's chairman, president, and chief executive, Davidi Gilo, who sold his Cupertino, Calif., company to Intel in October for $1.6 billion. Gilo, who has served as chairman of Vyyo since 1995, will now take a more active roll with the company and has added the titles of president and chief executive. Two other DSPC executives with no previous connections to Vyyo will join Gilo. Leaving Intel for similar positions at the modem maker are Arnon Kohavi, former senior vice president of strategic relations for DSPC, and Steve Pezzola, the company's former corporate counsel. Vyyo, which also is based in Cupertino, is a supplier of modems and hubs that enable the Internet and other broadband services to be accessed over a high-speed wireless network at speeds up to 40 Mbits/s. Formed in the 1970s, the company was originally called PhaseCom Inc., and attempted to stake its claim in the cable-modem business. More recently, Vyyo has re-focused its efforts to compete in the emerging fixed-wireless broadband hardware market. The worldwide market for wireless-broadband services is projected to grow from 100,000 subscribers in 1998 to 4 million by 2004, according to Allied Business Intelligence Inc., Oyster Bay, N.Y.