Issue



Mitsui & Company Ltd.


11/01/1996







Mitsui & Company Ltd. and Micron Communications Inc., Boise, ID, have signed an agreement naming Mitsui the master distributor for Japan of the Micron MicroStamp remote intelligent communications (RIC) family of products. MicroStamp is a small, high performance, high frequency (2.4 GHz), RIC unit based on the MicroStamp IC, which is a wireless communications technology that integrates a direct sequence spread spectrum mircrowave frequency radio, a microprocessor, and a low power SRAM into a single chip solution. Under the agreement, Mitsui will organize the introduction of the RIC technology among end users, systems integrators, and OEMs in Japan; while Mitsui will develop the distribution channels for the products in Japan.