Having failed to cut it with its microprocessors in the CPU market, National Semiconductor Corp is having to try and find niche markets for its NS32000 family of chips – and reportedly is on the brink of breaking through in the emerging X Window System terminal market. According to Computer Systems News, the company will shortly reveal contracts with two manufacturers readying X terminals, one in Europe, the other in the Far East. And in its campaign to get laser printer builders to incorporate its new graphics-oriented NS32CG16 processor into their laser printers, the company has won Samsung Electronics Co of Seoul, South Korea and Goldstar Electronics to use the part in new laser printers. Samsung is to use the NS32CG16 in a printer that will support Hewlett-Packard’s LaserJet Page Command Language and also emulate Adobe Systems Corp’s PostScript language. Development of the print engine and controller should be completed by the end of 1989.
