Conexant's Internet business christened Mindspeed

NEW DELHI: Conexant Systems will name its new Internet infrastructure

spin-off as Mindspeed Technologies. The new company will come into being when

Conexant separates into two entities.

Mindspeed Technologies will adopt the positioning tag line "Build It

First" to reflect its focus on helping customers get to market first in the

race to build an Internet infrastructure capable of communicating information at

ever-increasing speeds.

Raouf Halim, presently the senior vice president and general manager of

Conexant's Internet infrastructure business, will be the CEO of Mindspeed

Technologies.

Director of sales at Conexant Systems Hong Kong/China, Gerald Hamilton, will

head Mindspeed Technologies' operations in Asia-Pacific. The Internet

infrastructure business delivered revenues of US $580 million in Conexant's most

recent fiscal year, which ended September 30, 2000.

The Internet infrastructure business offers a complete portfolio of

semiconductor and software solutions ranging from physical-layer access devices

at the edge of the Internet up through switch fabric and network processor

products for the high-speed optical core.