AMCC contributed the most to the network processing market's growth in 2003 says the Linley Group.Network Processor Market Grew 30% in 2003 to a Record $85M; AMCC's Marketshare Almost Triple That of Nearest Competitor 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 that market research firm The Linley Group again ranked AMCC No. 1 worldwide in the sale of network processors for 2003, stating that AMCC, "contributed the most absolute dollars to the market's growth." AMCC continues to gain marketshare year over year, resulting in a substantial 23% lead over the next ranked network processing unit Network Processing Unit or NPU is an array of one or more Central processing unit (CPU) whose instructions are specialized to handle networking-related functions. NPUs are generally targeted at efficient examination and manipulation of packet headers. (NPU (Network Processing Unit) Same as network processor. ) vendor. AMCC has held this top leadership position since the inception of the network processing industry. "After a very strong second-half 2003, we think AMCC has great momentum for continued growth in NPU shipments in 2004," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "AMCC's contribution to the industry's growth is a major factor in our projection that the NPU market will grow more than 40% in 2004." "The network processing market continues to show signs of sequential growth, and as a pioneer in this industry, we feel very proud to contribute to its ongoing success with five generations of leading solutions," said Tom Tullie, senior vice-president of worldwide sales and WAN business for AMCC. "Our breadth of product solutions and depth of experience in this market translates to high-performance, customer-oriented devices. Tier One customers are responding to the 'Universal Port Services at Dedicated Port Economics' we're delivering in our network processing solutions, and we expect the demand to continue as OEMs and service providers require more functionality and flexibility." AMCC's nP5 technology enables developers to deliver extremely fine-grained control of subscriber traffic without impacting the ability to perform complex ATM and packet internetworking at media speeds. The company's network processing solutions like the nP3700 integrated NP+TM serve as the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of AMCC's popular MISSION multi-service switching solution. AMCC network processors are used in a wide range of communications equipment in the access, metro and core segments of the network. AMCC's customers include Alcatel, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Fujitsu, Huawei Technologies, Lucent Technologies, Marconi and Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony . |
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