Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) of Taiwan on Monday introduced its first wireless LAN chip in what the firm said will become a family of WLAN products.
The SiS160 is a media access controller (MAC) chip that conforms to the 802.11b standard.
Sis joined the growing field of 802.11b vendors, including Intel Corp., which last week launched its own Centrino brand of Wi-Fi components with the 802.11b format. The Taiwan firm said the SiS160 is ready for volume production immediately.
The chip is produced on 0.18-micron processing. It supports either 64-bit or 128-bit data encryption using the wired equivalent privacy (WEP) algorithm but can be upgraded to the pending 802.1x security standards when they are ratified.
The SiS160 uses a 128-pin low profile quad flat pack (LQFP) package. A host interface offers PCI, miniPCI and Cardbus support.
By: DocMemory
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