APPLE, ASANTE, AND MOTOROLA CHOOSE DIGITAL'S PCI ETHERNET CHIPS FOR NETWORK
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 Industry Leaders Select Digital Semiconductor Networking Chips...

MAYNARD, Mass. -- March 28, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today
announced that Apple Computer, Asante Technologies, and Motorola Computer
Group have expressed their intent to build computer products incorporating
PCI Ethernet controller chips from Digital Semiconductor, a Digital
Equipment Corporation business.

Apple Computer, Cupertino, California, has selected Digital Semiconductor's
PCI-based 21040 10Mbps (megabits per second) and 21140 10/100Mbps Ethernet
controllers to develop network interface cards for the Macintosh and PC
Windows environments. "Digital Semiconductor's excellent upward migration
path and the outstanding price/performance of its Ethernet and Fast
Ethernet chips make it the logical choice for us," said Bill Brown,
Business Unit Manager, ABS (Apple Business Systems) Connectivity
Products.

Asanti Technologies' Bruce Stancombe said that the San Jose-based company
will incorporate the 21140 Fast Ethernet chip in its AsantiFAST PCI Fast
Ethernet implementation. Stancombe, Director of Product Marketing, said,
"We chose Digital Semiconductor's Fast Ethernet chip because of the low
CPU utilization and full-duplex capabilities. The Fast Ethernet chip,
combined with Asanti's proven Ethernet card design, delivers a
high-performance solution to the customer."

Jerry Gipper is Director of Marketing, Embedded Technologies, in the
Motorola Computer Group, which is using the 21040 PCI Ethernet controller
in several motherboards and on a VME board. "The 21040 Ethernet controller
is very easy to integrate and has met all our performance expectations,"
he said. "But perhaps its most attractive feature is its clear,
straightforward upgrade path to the 21140 Fast Ethernet controller. For
us, that was a real plus."

Digital Semiconductor's 21140 PCI Fast Ethernet LAN controller is a
high-performance device with both 100Mbps and 10Mbps ports, providing
users the easiest and fastest route from 10BaseT to 100BaseT Ethernet in
PCI-based, mixed-platform, mixed-operating system environments. Both the
21140 PCI Fast Ethernet and 21040 PCI Ethernet controllers act as PCI bus
masters, featuring a direct memory access (DMA) architecture to optimize
CPU utilization, and support full-duplex operation. Both chips are
supported with software drivers for all major operating system
environments.

William N. Johnson, Vice President, Digital Semiconductor Marketing and
Sales, commented, "We are very pleased that these well-known industry
leaders have selected our networking chips for their products. Their
choice of our PCI Ethernet controllers clearly demonstrates the
performance and product leadership of our networking chips in a very
competitive market."

Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment Corporation business
headquartered in Hudson, Massachusetts, designs, manufactures and markets
industry-leading semiconductor products including Alpha microprocessors
and PCI-based peripheral chips. It has also announced that it will design,
manufacture, and market StrongARM low-power, high-performance 32-bit RISC
microprocessors. PCI products include networking chips, bridge chips, and
graphics/ multimedia accelerators that offer industry-leading performance
and functionality for all major platforms, both CISC and RISC. Digital
Semiconductor operates design centers in Hudson; Palo Alto, California;
Austin, Texas; and Jerusalem, Israel. Semiconductor products are
manufactured in Hudson and South Queensferry, Scotland. Digital
Semiconductor sells its products worldwide through its direct sales force
and semiconductor distribution channels.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business
partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

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