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Byline: JAMES DETAR
Is the U.S. lagging other countries in technology adoption rates? Some industry insiders say yes.
Cell phone use, for example, is growing faster in Europe and Asia than it is here. High-speed Web use, too, is picking up worldwide. As a result, tech marketers are increasingly looking to these growth parts of the world.
But Xilinx Inc. Chief Executive Willem Roelandts sees lots of opportunity here in the U.S. He's trying to gain a bigger share of the U.S. communications chip market for Xilinx.
Xilinx is a leader in programmable chips. Communications equipment makers value these chips because their functions can be changed at any time, even after the device has been shipped from the factory.
Xilinx is focusing on a type of network called a metropolitan area network, or MAN.
These networks connect people in large population centers to each other and to the Internet. They often use high-speed links like fiber-optic lines.