England's ClearSpeed to roll out network-processor IP core next week

England's ClearSpeed to roll out network-processor IP core next week
By Semiconductor Business News
June 7, 2001 (2:54 p.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010607S0082

BRISTOL, England -- Look for ClearSpeed Technology Ltd., formally known as PixelFusion, to become the latest company to enter the network processor fray.

On June 11, ClearSpeed of the United Kingdom will unveil a radical new network processing architecture said to be 16 times more powerful than competing products on the market.

The announcement, expected at next week's Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, will include details of a chip said to process data at speeds from 2.5- to 40-gigabits-per-second.

ClearSpeed was originally developing a graphics chip, but the company bailed out of the market to focus on the networking ICs. With its network processor architecture, the company will take an intellectual-property (IP) core approach to the market.