AMCC's PowerPC 440SP Storage Processor Selected by QLogic for Its SANbox Intelligent Storage Routers Products.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture (including a Power Architecture license), optical transport and storage solutions. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ), a global leader in optical transport, embedded Power Architecture[TM] processing and storage solutions, announced today that QLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, has selected AMCC's PowerPC([R]) 440SP storage processor for its new leadership SANbox 6140 Intelligent Storage Routers. The SANbox 6140 provides low cost, storage area network (SAN) connectivity services for the entire enterprise with performance to support up to 512 servers and wizard-based configuration. The AMCC PowerPC 440SP storage processor enables the new QLogic([R]) storage router products to deliver unmatched performance, flexibility for SAN connectivity by routing standard Ethernet, via iSCSI, to a Fibre Channel controller for simultaneous storage access from Fibre Channel and Ethernet-based networks. With multiple PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. version 2.0 interfaces, on-chip double data rate (DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory I/DDR II) SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. controller, a high bandwidth internal crossbar bus structure, optional RAID acceleration engine, and a rich peripheral mix, the PowerPC 440SP processor is ideally suited for SAN equipment. "We are pleased to have been selected by QLogic for their new advanced Intelligent Storage Router family. QLogic is clearly solving the SAN customer connectivity challenges and the PowerPC 440SP is a key factor in their product differentiation Product Differentiation A source of competitive advantage that depends on producing some item that is regarded to have unique and valuable characteristics. ," said Sam Fuller, Vice President of Marketing at AMCC. "The high performance, wide range of features and flexibility of our PowerPC 440SP is helping QLogic deliver a product that offers significant competitive advantage. Customer wins of this nature validate the leadership position of AMCC's Power Architecture storage processor products." "AMCC's Power Architecture storage processors provide the features and functions we require to implement our multi-protocol SAN routers," said Shishir Shah, Vice President and General Manager of Storage Solutions Group at QLogic. "AMCC's PowerPC 440SP empowers QLogic SANbox intelligent storage routers to deliver cost-effective SAN connectivity with high performance and high availability iSCSI and Fibre Channel Ports." For more information on AMCC storage processor products: http://www.amcc.com/products/process.html About AMCC AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and store digital information for the world's wired and wireless networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture[TM]-based processors and with world-class expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing and PHY See physical layer and physical. technology, our products are the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. AMCC is a registered trademark of APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION. Power Architecture is a trademark licensed by Power.org. PowerPC is a registered trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation and used under license therefrom. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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