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To: StanX Long who wrote (59055)	1/18/2002 2:17:49 AM
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NEC boosts USB 2.0 chip production By Yoshiko Hara EE Times January 17, 2002 (4:51 p.m. EST) eetimes.com TOKYO — NEC Electron Devices plans to boost USB 2.0 chip production nearly threefold, to 20 million units, in anticipation of rapid growth of the USB 2.0 market this year as PC and motherboard makers adopt the 480-Mbit/second interface. Half of the new output will be host controllers for PCs and PC boards, NEC said. The company's µPD720100A host controller has been shipping since last March and bears the USB 2.0 logo, indicating compliance with the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) standard. NEC is a core member of USB-IF and was first out of the chute with a compliant controller for the volume market. The company claims to have sold 2 million units of its host controller worldwide last year. More than 50 customers, including Adaptec Inc., are said to have designed the controller into PCI add-in cards and PCMCIA cards. "Motherboard vendors started offering PC motherboards with USB 2.0 controllers just around December. If PCs start equipping for USB 2.0, that will drive USB 2.0 penetration," said Takatoshi Koga, assistant general manager of NEC Electron Devices. NEC is betting on its head start in the controller market to expand its position in USB 2.0 as the interface catches on for the desktop. "The rapid growth of the host controller LSI helps assure the growth of the whole USB 2.0 LSI market," Koga said.