Gigabyte Ethernet cards to be manufactured in India

National Semiconductor Corporation is negotiating with a couple of companies

to set up a manufacturing facility for the production of gigabyte Ethernet cards

in the country. According to National Semiconductor, these initiatives will

usher the 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet card against the traditional 10/100 Mbps

solution. This will help increase the performance of network computing while

keeping the price points low.

Jayant Bhat, Director ASEAN region and operations, National Semiconductor,

pointed out that India has a large consumer base and the company sees a big

market emerging out in the infrastructure space.

He said, "The infrastructure market is going to take off early next year

and we want to have our strategies and engagements in place before that. The

Indian market will remain our focus area."

The company has also introduced the industry's first GeodeLink system

architecture, exclusively designed for a new breed of information appliances,

including thin clients, personal Internet access devices and set top boxes.

The GeodeLink system architecture, is the newest development of the company's

Geode processors, which are currently being used in more than 120 information

appliance designs companies like Acer, AOL, Philips, Compaq, Dell, Honeywell,

IBM, Microsoft and Samsung.

Breaking away from traditional design methods, this technology enables

features that allow system integration to achieve better performance and price.

(CNS)