Following the example of AT&T Co when it was allowed to enter unregulated businesses after divestiture of the regional Bells, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is to start offering chips on the merchant market through its 50%-owned NTT Electronic Technology Co unit: the first part to be offered by the company is an encription-decription chip, Feal 8, which is claimed to be almost five times as fast as the Data Encription Standard developed by IBM and adopted by the US.
NTT TO OFFER CHIPS ON THE MERCHANT MARKET THROUGH UNIT
