AMCC Ships High Performance SATA RAID Controllers for Digital Content Storage Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2004 Booth SL3059 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2004 3ware 9000 Series RAID Controllers Substantially Outperform Competition in RAID 5 Sequential Reads and Writes -- Ideal for All Video and High Throughput Applications 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. (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:AMCC), today announced the availability of the new 3ware 9000 Series of hardware RAID controllers. The 3ware 9000 Series enables a completely new class of 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. RAID storage solutions for all rich-media content servers. The new controllers are available now in 12, 8, and 4-port configurations worldwide. The 3ware 9000 Series will be on display at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) April 19 - 22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. in booth SL3059. AMCC recently announced the acquisition of 3ware to extend the company's presence in the storage market. AMCC also purchased JNI (Java Native Interface) A programming interface (API) in Sun's Java Virtual Machine used for calling native platform elements such as GUI routines. RNI (Raw Native Interface) is the JNI counterpart in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine. JNI - Java Native Interface in October of 2003. The company's expanding storage product portfolio now includes SATA controllers and Fibre Channel host bus adapters to broaden the company's market opportunity into 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 , DAS, and SAN storage applications. Rich-media applications require sustained performance and ultra-high capacities for storing and distributing data-intensive digital media files including HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates , movies, voice, graphics, high-resolution images, and audio. The AMCC 3ware 9000 Series enables OEMs, VARs, and system integrators to build cost-effective, high performance solutions for on-demand systems in the broadcast, entertainment, production, content, and delivery markets. "Content-on-demand systems depend on reliable storage, high read and write speeds, scalability and expansive capacities," said Barbara Murphy, Vice President of Marketing at AMCC Storage Business Unit. "The 3ware 9000 is designed to meet the needs of high throughput-dependent RAID implementations while dramatically lowering the cost/performance ratio. And, our hardware RAID controllers also provide advanced RAID tools and features for greater data protection, serving, and ease of system configuration and management." The new family of SATA controllers, based on the company's innovative StorSwitch(TM) switched RAID architecture, provides up to 3.6 TB of fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. storage per controller and deliver in excess of 400 Mbytes per second sequential RAID 5 reads(a) and over 110 Mbytes per second RAID 5 sequential writes. 3ware's advanced hardware RAID architecture features an on-board processor and an integrated RAID ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. that offloads RAID controller functions from the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , dedicating the server processing to its core applications and enhancing overall system performance. AMCC combines the affordability of SATA drives with best-of-breed technology addressing the entire RAID spectrum of capacity, feature-set, and performance. Designed to support the next generation of 64 bit computing applications, the new controllers support single arrays of up to 3.6 TB via 64 bit LBA's on one controller. The 3ware 9000 Series platform is designed from the ground up to protect the customer's investment in RAID by offering field upgradeable added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
AMCC also offers the 3ware 9000 Series controllers with Multi-lane Internal (MI) connectors for high capacity industrial environments. This innovative design increases reliability, and simplifies installation and routing via an innovative cabling solution for large-scale configurations. The 3ware 9500 Multi-lane controllers include a highly reliable, locking cable/connector system that combines 4 SATA ports into one on the controller side. 12-port configurations feature 3 integrated connectors and an 8-port configuration offers 2 integrated connectors. AMCC Product Support The 3ware 9000 Series of RAID controllers ship with a 3-year warranty and are compatible with Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat(R) Linux, SuSE(R) Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. For additional information, please visit www.3ware.com. AMCC Overview AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the transport, switching, routing and storage of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver communications silicon and software for global wide area networks (WAN), Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for storage area networks (SAN), and hardware and software solutions for 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 the AMCC web site at http://www.amcc.com. (a) Tested at AMCC using Iometer benchmark program on a dual processor Intel Xeon (2.4GHz) system with PhoenixBIOS, 512MBytes system RAM, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, the 3ware 9500S-8 66MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. SATA RAID controller and Maxtor 7Y250MQ, 250GB, 7200 RPM drives (b) Channel availability summer 2004. 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 products discussed in this press release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products would 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. for the year ended March 31, 2003, and in other filings of the Company 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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