The Austin, Texas-based Microprocessor & Memory Technologies Group of Motorola Inc claims to have the first 100VG-AnyLAN chip set to support both Ethernet and Token Ring frame formats. There are two variants on the chip set: the MC68852 PCI Master Interface chip, and the MC68853 AT System Interface chip. Both chip sets are said to support the 100Mbps AnyLAN standard, alongside the 10Mbps 10Base-T Ethernet standard. When combined with a transceiver, the chip sets provide a complete adaptor board, said the company. In what looks like a stop-gap measure, Motorola is using the P12C5001 AnyLAN transceiver from Santa Clara, California-based Pericom Semiconductor Inc, coupled with its own MC68160 10Base-T transceiver, but the company adds that it is planning to release its own integrated 10Base-T/AnyLAN transceiver by the end of the first quarter next year. Motorola has already garnered support from a range of manufacturers who say they plan to evaluate it, including Thomas Conrad Corp, Cabletron Systems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co. The PCI chip set will ship in sample quantities from this month, in volume from November. It costs $22 in quantities of 10,000. The AT version will ship in sample quantities in November, and when it is available in production volumes in February, it will cost $12 in the same quantities.
