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To: Dave Mordis who wrote (3571)	8/10/2000 4:23:24 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Dave, Re: last weekend's Barron's rated Vitesse as one of the top 2 picks to be included in the S&P 500 next time a replacement is needed. Do you happen to recall the other candidate? TIA Now for the real deal: eetimes.com Vitesse acquires WAN product line from Philips By Craig Matsumoto EE Times (08/09/00, 10:02 a.m. EST) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has purchased part of the wide-area networking division of Philips Semiconductors, a move made to bolster Vitesse's product portfolio. Purchased for $30 million in cash, the product lines are a step below Vitesse's normal fare in terms of performance. But they are required in the kinds of systems Vitesse sells to, said Chris Gardner, vice president of the telecom division at Vitesse (Camarillo, Calif.). "Prior to having these chips, we would send someone to PMC-Sierra," or a similar chip vendor, to get the parts, he said. Vitesse was interested in the Philips Semiconductors versions of the parts because they are proven technology, all in their third generation, he said. The first chip is a 2,048-channel HDLC controller, which delineates T1/E1 traffic into packets or cells for feeding into a packet processor or quality-of-service engine. The second is a 28-channel framer, which takes T1/E1 traffic and places it into Sonet frames; a larger version of the part will carry 84 channels. The third product is a similar terminator for DS-3 traffic.