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To: REH who wrote (16400)	2/23/1999 5:31:00 AM
From: REH	Respond to of 93625

SwitchCore to try Rambus tech Feb. 22, 1999 (Electronic Buyers News - CMP via COMTEX) -- Silicon Valley- Looking to expand its efforts in the LAN/WAN space, Rambus Inc. has licensed its high-speed memory-interface technology to SwitchCore Corp., a Swedish company developing a high-end Layer 3 switching chip for Fast Ethernet and 1-Gbit/s networks. The move represents the second switch-chip maker to endorse Rambus. Recently, Texas Instruments Inc. announced a switching chip based on the technology. Other LAN-switch makers, including Galileo Technology Inc., have yet to endorse Rambus. Instead, they are using SDRAMs, due in part to the high cost of the Rambus technology, analysts said. It's possible, however, that switch-chip makers could endorse Rambus for their higher-end Layer 2/3 switches, where performance is a factor over cost. But in lower-end Layer 2 systems in which cost per port is the most critical factor, switch-chip makers will use inexpensive SDRAMs, according to analysts. SwitchCore will use Rambus' 800-MHz memory-interface architecture in its new Layer 3 switching chip. The chip, to be shipped by year's end, is a 10/100-Mbit/s single-chip solution with 16 uplinks to 1-Gbit/s Ethernet networks, said Kurt Busch,vice president and general manager of SwitchCore's U.S. sales arm, which is located in San Jose.