Digital Equipment Corp has opened its new chip design centre in the new technology park in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem VLSI Design Center joins DEC’s other design centres for Alpha AXP microprocessors and Peripheral Component Interconnect-based peripheral chips in Palo Alto, California, Austin, Texas, and Hudson, Massachusetts, where DEC’s Semiconductor Operations Group is headquartered. DEC first established a design function in Israel in 1985 to work on proprietary circuit design and layout. The new Jerusalem VLSI Design Center, which cost $7m, now houses a team of 80 hardware and software engineers responsible for designing a family of PCI-based communications peripheral chips, and did DEC’s new 21040 PCI Ethernet controller.
