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To: art slott who wrote (3148)	5/24/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8219

IBM's PowerPC in PCI (Intel) bus - not mentioned in Bus. Week Part of Gerster's optimism . PLX will use IBM PowerPC RISC CPU for new ASCI (Application Specific) I/O adapters : " The proliferation of PCI in embedded host systems and I/O adapter designs has led to the rapid growth of designs based on ,b>distributed processing architectures including dedicated RISC CPUs for I/O processing and hardware-supported message passing on PCI for software protocol control, ... The new chip was designed using the IBM Blue Logic Core + ASIC Program. "The PLX IOP480 is an example of how customers can use IBM Blue Logic technology to rapidly bring core-based system-on-a-chip ASIC designs to market to provide specific application solutions," said Elliott Newcombe, marketing manager for IBM Microelectronics. " Brings "Network Centric" processing to IBM's super-servers front door. Regards, Jim K. Source: edtn.com