Rockwell touts new chip set for modems. (Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc.)(Broadband Week)

Multichannel News, February, 1998 by Ellis, Leslie

Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc. will hit the market with a $55, three-chip set for standards-compliant cable modems in May, executives with the chip giant said last week. A handful of companies are already in line for the chips, including Harmonic Lightwaves Inc., 3Com Corp., NEC, Panasonic and new entrant Daewoo Electronics.

The chips were designed to comply with Cable Television Laboratories Inc.'s MCNS (Multimedia Cable Network Systems) specification. Daewoo - a Korean manufacturer that emerged late last year as a finalist in Tele-Communications Inc.'s request for cable-modem proposals - is preparing for commercial quantities of its cable modem by August. Daewoo showed a proto-type of its work at the Western Show in December, but only last week...

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