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To: Captain James T. Kirk who wrote (23766)	11/17/1997 9:13:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 61433

(PR NEWSWIRE) DJ: Lucent Providing K56flex(TM) Modem Chips to NEC Computer DJ: Lucent Providing K56flex(TM) Modem Chips to NEC ComputerSystems for Versa 2700 Series Notebook Computers LAS VEGAS, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group modem chip set has been selected by NEC Computer Systems, a division of Packard Bell NEC, for the Versa* 2700 Series of portable computers. The announcement was made here at COMDEX '97. NEC Computer Systems will use Lucent's Venus(TM) chip set, which is based on the K56flex(TM) interoperable modem protocol and enables Internet access, videoconferencing and simultaneous voice and data communications at nearly twice the speed of previous-generation modems. Venus integrates a digital signal processor and microcontroller on a single chip. "You can't beat a product that performs the same functions using one fewer device, because it lowers costs, occupies less space, and offers more flexibility in product designs and circuit board layouts," said Kendall Simmons, director of NorthAmerica marketing of portable computers for NEC's Computer Systems Division. "We've embedded the DSP and microcontroller functions on one chip as opposed to the multi-chip module approaches offered by other manufacturers that embed multiple pieces of silicon in one package," said Bob Rango, general manager of modem and multimedia integrated circuits for Lucent's Microelectronics Group. "Offering one integrated piece of silicon within a chip allows us to exploit improvements in smaller process geometry to reduce cost and power consumption." By using Lucent's Venus chip set, NEC Computer Systems Division's notebook computers are guaranteed to be software-upgradable to whatever standard emerges from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for high-speed, pulse code modulation technology. The K56flex protocol is endorsed by more than 1,500 online and Internet service providers. Lucent's chip sets are being used in computers from Compaq, Toshiba, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, and Micron Notebook Division, as well as modems from Hayes Microcomputer Products, Multi-Tech Systems, Xircom, and Livingston Enterprises. For Venus product literature, customers may call the Microelectronics Group Customer Response Center, 1-800-372-2447, Dept. R53 (in Canada, 800-553-2448, Dept. R53); fax number 610-712-4106 (especially for callers outside of North America); or write to Lucent Technologies, Room 30L-15P-BA, 555 Union Boulevard, Allentown, Pa., 18103.