The Kanematsu Semiconductor arm of the Japanese electronics trading company has teamed up with Destiny Technology Inc, US maker of Hewlett-Packard- and Postscript-compatible laser printers to sell its printer controller chip set in Japan: the custom chip set incorporates a control language and circuits, and is claimed to be 30% faster and take up half the space of previous chip sets, and Kanematsu plans to combine the chips with its own IBM compatible personal computer BIOSes and cloning chip sets and offer them to Japanese manufacturers of desktop publishing systems; Destiny’s latest product is a chip set that combines a controller for both Hewlett and Postscript printers, all on one applications-specific circuit that replaces 19 chips.
