Nexel Corp – that name rings a bell – has been formed in Santa Clara, California by S Y Kuo, vice-president of engineering, Kent Marshall, chairman, Mike Raghavan, president and Wes Sage, vice-president of administration and its first product, the SY380SX, is a cache memory controller ASIC designed to improve the performance of Intel 80386SX systems and motherboards: the second product is a single chip integrated cache controller with the same core as the SY380SX, designed to upgrade existing 80286 ATs and PS/2s to 80386SX systems with up to 64Kb of cache; four additional caching and performance enhancement products for 80386SX, 80386, 80486 and Sparc microprocessors are planned over the next two years by Nexel, which is currently self-funded.
