AdvanSys and Fujitsu Make IEEE 1394 Standard Technology Partnership Agreement.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1998--Advanced System Products, Inc. (AdvanSys), a California corporation and Fujitsu Limited, a Japanese corporation, agreed to jointly develop IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 technology whose initial application is to connect digital video to PCs and eventually to bring significant increased bandwidth between PCs and peripheral devices. The two companies will jointly develop a 1394 chip to meet the latest Open Host Controller Interface A host controller interface is a register level interface which allows a host controller for USB or FireWire to communicate with the operating system of a personal computer. (OHCI OHCI - Open Host Controller Interface ) specification issued September 29, 1997. Fujitsu and U.S. based Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. have agreed to share technology development, as well as sharing the final products with AdvanSys, when they are in production. The two companies bring different strengths to the partnership. Fujitsu has already developed a functioning 1394 device that serves as a target on peripheral devices, while AdvanSys is intimately familiar with PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). interface technology. The first product using the combined technologies could be released as early as the fourth calendar quarter of 1998. This is the first time AdvanSys has chosen to work with another company in a joint development project. It is also the company's first venture outside of SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. . "This agreement for the development of 1394 technology is strategic to the future of AdvanSys," said James Ottinger, president of AdvanSys. "We are proud to partner with Fujitsu, a technically sophisticated worldwide manufacturer of electronic systems and semiconductors. By combining Advansys technology with Fujitsu's, the first 1394 product based on the new OHCI specification will reach the market more quickly, a necessity in this era of rapidly chny philosophy for clean, manufacturable design," said Bami Bastani, Executive Vice President, Logic Products Division, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. "Here at Fujitsu we see the 1394 technology as critical to the fast paced computer industry and as a very strategic component of our woterface) host adapters, software and integrated circuits. The heart of its SCSI products is the company's cost effective RISC processor. The processor optimizes computer system performance by reducing and/or eliminating CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles otherwise employed in data transfers between system mee, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/2, Apple System OS and a variety of UNIX operating systems. The northern California based company sells its products worldwide to resellers, system and PC integrators, and original equipment manufacturers. Visit AdvanSys on the World Wide web at http://www.advansys.com Fujitsu Limited, founded in 1935, is an international leader ogy, software and service companies posted glob CONTACT: AdvanSys Charles Roome, 408/383-5711 croome@advansys.com or The Lekas Group Joyce Lekas, 650/948-8907 lekas@aol.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com |
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