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To: Teri Garner who wrote (74502)	5/11/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: Probart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

ABOV looking even stronger......

To: Teri Garner who wrote (74502)	5/11/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Doug Robinson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

BRCM-NEWS!! Broadcom Plans to Unveil New Chip That May Speed Up Office Networks By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter IRVINE, Calif. -- Broadcom Corp. Tuesday will unveil a new chip that could accelerate the development of much faster office computer networks, people familiar with the matter said. The company is expected to demonstrate a chip that can handle computer traffic at as much as one gigabit, or one billion bits a second, over the copper-based Ethernet wiring used in most offices. Most office networks now operate at 10 million to 100 million bits a second. Several companies make gigabit-speed switches, but they all rely on fiber-optic lines to transmit the data. Using copper wire will make it drastically cheaper and easier to build gigabit-speed networks, which will accommodate video and telephone calls as well as computer traffic, analysts and industry executives said. For example, a $100 transceiver used on chips for fiber networks can be replaced with a 50-cent connector for copper networks, said Allen Leibovitch, an analyst for International Data Corp., Framingham, Mass. The announcement, at an industry trade show, carries weight because of Broadcom's dominant position in chips for high-speed, or "broadband" communications. Its chips are in the majority of cable modems and digital cable set-top boxes, as well as in many high-speed networking devices. The new chip is "a huge deal," said a spokesman for 3Com Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif., network equipment maker that is Broadcom's second-biggest customer. "We've been on the edge of our seats for quite some time."