AMCC Offers PowerPC(R) 440SP and 440SPe Processors with Integrated RAID 6 Acceleration Hardware; Cost-effective Processors Offer Increased Redundancy and Protection for Critical Embedded and Networking Applications.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (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) ) (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) today announced new versions of its PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe processors with acceleration hardware that will increase the processing rate of both RAID 5 and RAID 6 functionality. Whereas RAID 5 provides for the recovery of data lost from a single disc drive failure, RAID 6 provides an added level of fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. allowing for full data recovery in the event of two failed disc drives. Broader adoption of RAID technology, including the deployment of higher capacity RAID systems and RAID systems based on lower cost SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. drives, have driven demand for the higher level of data protection offered by RAID 6 technology. Both the PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe RAID-enabled processors target host-attached, internal and external storage, storage area networking (SAN), and network attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) system applications. AMCC's PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe processors have become widely accepted for their industry leading bandwidth, integration and RAID acceleration hardware support. Based on the PowerPC 440 superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. core, the 440SPe is the first processor to offer three independent PCI Express interfaces and one 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. interface, meeting the high bandwidth demands for RAID controllers and SAN equipment. The PowerPC 440SP integrates a rich combination of features including three PCI-X interfaces. Both processors feature a high bandwidth crossbar-based internal bus, an 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, I2O (Intelligent I/O) A standard for offloading input and output to an auxiliary processor. The auxiliary processor (I/O processor) manages the data transfer while the CPU does something else. messaging unit, and other peripherals. "Integration, flexibility and efficiency options are key advantages we can offer customers with this new RAID hardware support. By providing the versatility of either RAID 5 or RAID 6 in the PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe processors, we have created cost-effective solutions customized to meet users' needs, backed by our experience and an industry-leading architecture," said Sam Fuller, vice president of marketing at AMCC. The highly integrated RAID 6 hardware accelerates the parity generation algorithms and is compatible with the leading RAID 6 deployments in the industry. "AMCC's latest storage processors provide added functionality and expand the versatility of those products in storage applications where data protection is critical," said Paul Perez, vice president, Storage, Networking & Infrastructure, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "These products are based on HP's field proven Advanced Data Guarding RAID 6 technology and provide HP the flexibility to offer our customers Server RAID products with very high reliability and fault tolerance while at the same time achieving leading-edge performance and cost-effectiveness." Samples are available now for AMCC's PowerPC 440SP and will be available in 1Q 2006 for AMCC's PowerPC 440SPe. Both products will be available in standard and lead-free RoHS compliant packaging. For more information, please contact your local AMCC sales office or visit http://www.amcc.com. About AMCC AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN), and high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com. Forward Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the markets, growth of markets and products, including the risk that the markets would not grow at the rates forecasted, and the demand for products would not materialize, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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 news release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement. |
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