In Focus: Silicon

"The state of the industry is a getting just a bit better... there's room for optimism," said Sean Maloney, Executive ...

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced two new Gigabit Ethernet switch ICs: Gatwick -- a Layer 3, 24-port tri-speed (10/100/1000) plus 2-port 10 ...

Agere Systems, in partnership with its foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has produced a 90 nm serializer/deserializer (SerDes) device ...

Conexant Systems announced plans to acquire GlobespanVirata, creating a combined company with an annual revenue run-rate of approximately $1.2 billion ...

Conexant Systems reported quarterly revenues of $164.7 million, up 9% over the prior quarter and up 24% over the same ...

Agere Systems reported its first quarterly profit since its IPO and its first quarter of positive cash flow from operations. ...

Vitesse Semiconductor reported quarterly sales of $42.8 million, compared to $35.6 million for the same period last year and $39.7 ...

Broadcom introduced its seventh generation NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet controllers featuring an advanced PCI Express host interface -- an industry first. ...

Agere Systems announced an ATM-enabled network processor for voice switching applications in existing and next-generation wireline and wireless infrastructure equipment, ...

Shipments of Ikanos Communications' programmable VDSL-DMT chipsets have exceeded one million ports since volume production began less than one year ...

Metalink introduced its next generation VDSLPlus chipsets for access switches, DSLAMs and customer premise equipment, claiming downstream transmission speeds over ...

Metalink has reached the 100,000 ports shipment mark for its VDSL chipset in North-America. The company said the growth in ...

The Network Processing Forum (NPF) has added four new software implementation agreements aimed at speeding the development and lowering the ...