Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Rieman who wrote (39456)	3/25/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

NEC reorganizes its system LSI group........ semibiznews.com NEC reorganizes System LSI unit A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 3 p.m. EST/noon PST, 3/25/99 TOKYO -- NEC Corp. here today reorganized its System LSI Operations Unit to sharply expand the more-profitable system-on-a-chip (SOC) business. NEC said the reorganized unit will focus on the consumer electronics market, LAN chips, and PCs and peripherals. It will combine the existing LSI Development and Microcomputer divisions, as well as set up a design engineering division. SOC designs that previously had been done separately throughout NEC divisions will now be centralized in the new unit. As its first move, NEC unveiled a new CB-11 family of ASIC designs at 0.18- to-0.15 micron (drawn) processes to make SOC devices for use by itself and others. The company said customers can design their own SOCs using the CB-11 library as building blocks. The CB-11 ASIC cores will include microcontollers, MPEG-2 encoder/decoder, ATM and Ethernet interfaces, xDSL, graphics accelerators, AD/DA converters, IEEE 1394 interface, DSP, DRAM, flash, and ROM. NEC said that CB-11's modular process technology and design flow will make it easy for NEC customers to continue using the company's previous ASIC offerings while increasing their level of integration with new cores. CB-11 will also serve as the development foundation to produce NEC's line-up of application specific custom product (ACSP) and application specific standard product (ASSP) offerings. NEC will begin accepting designs for CB-11 in June, with sampling expected to begin in December and volume production in the first quarter of 2000.