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To: bill c. who wrote (11354)	6/8/1998 7:48:00 PM
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[ Volume production for TI and MOT ] Volume Production MOT = 3Q98 TI = 4Q98 .....Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, Austin, Texas, made its long-awaited entry into the ADSL market in March with its DMT-based CopperGold chipset. The product, first announced more than a year ago, was delayed by what Rick Hall, SPS' strategic marketing planner for xDSL systems, describes as "mainly manufacturing issues." The company expects to reach volume production in the third quarter. The centerpiece of the CopperGold chipset is the highly integrated MC145650 transceiver, which includes an embedded 24-bit 56300 series, programmable DSP, a digital interface, and an analog front end-all in a single-chip package dissipating just 1 W of power. The chipset also includes the MC03AX1456 line driver/hybrid device as well as an array of application-specific components for Ethernet, ATM, and host-control functions. "What we bring to the game is a high degree of integration," Hall said. That's particularly important in phone companies' central offices, where space and power constraints would otherwise limit users' ability to install ADSL equipment, he said. Integration and standards compliance are also key parts of Texas Instruments' ADSL strategy. In February, TI announced the TNETD2000 family of 8-Mbit/s ADSL chipsets, all of which are DMT-based and fully compliant with T1.413, issue 2. The chipsets began sampling in March and should reach volume production in the fourth quarter. Available in three configurations, each TI chipset includes an ADSL transceiver based on the company's TMS320C6x DSP core, a digital interface, codec, and line driver. For internal modems, TI is offering the TNETD2000P, including an ATM host interface controller and Microsoft Windows drivers. For external and network-termination-box modems, TI is introducing the TNETD2000R, and for central-office equipment, the TNETD2000C, which currently boasts the only ADSL transceiver powerful enough to support two full-rate ADSL modem lines on a single chipset, TI said. The chipsets began sampling in March and should reach volume production in the fourth quarter, according to the company. TI underscored its interest in the ADSL market in November with the $400 million acquisition of Amati Communications Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based ADSL specialist that holds many of the key patents for DMT technology....