PMC-Sierra's MIPS Processor Powers Best-Selling HP Laser Printer Family; 250MHz RM5261 Processor Selected for HP LaserJet 4100.Business/High-Tech Editors BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2001 PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ) today announced its RM5261(TM) MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (TM) RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microprocessor has been selected for Hewlett-Packard Company's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) new LaserJet(TM) 4100 printers. The 64-bit RM5261 offers dramatically increased processing throughput for HP's best-selling family of laser printers for networked environments and workgroups. "As the premier supplier of business laser printers, HP required a rugged and versatile processor for the next generation LaserJet 4100," said Tom Riordan, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra's MIPS Processor Division (MPD MPD maximum permissible dose. MPD abbr. 1. maximal permissible dose 2. multiple personality disorder Multiple personality disorder (MPD) ). "HP's choice of PMC-Sierra's RM5261 means that business customers will enjoy higher print speeds and greater features in a low cost workgroup printer." The HP LaserJet LaserJet is the brand name used by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP) for their line of dry electrophotographic (DEP) laser printers. Technology HP LaserJets employ electro-photographic laser marking engines sourced from the Japanese company Canon. 4100 is an Internet-enabled laser printer targeted at medium to large workgroups. Printing at a fast 24/25 pages per minute, the new HP printer includes features for easy access to advanced Internet functions. With the embedded Web server Web server software embedded within a hardware device such as a print server. It is widely used in a myriad of devices, because it allows access to the software via any Web browser, typically for configuring the device or obtaining reports. See ETI and Web server. for remote printer management and embedded virtual machine for feature extensions with Java applications, the LaserJet 4100 becomes a seamless component of the workgroup network. The RM5261 is the fourth generation of MIPS microprocessor designed by PMC-Sierra's MPD team (formerly Quantum Effect Devices Quantum Effect Devices was a company originally named Quantum Effect Design, incorporated in 1991. The three founders, Tom Riordan, Earl Killian and Ray Kunita were senior managers at MIPS Computer Systems Inc.. ). PMC-Sierra offers a broad product lineup of high performance MIPS architecture microprocessors, including the cost effective RM5200 and high performance RM7000(TM) product families. Originally designed for networking applications, the RM5261 is now cost effective for high volume applications such as laser printers. The RM5261 microprocessor offers a full 64-bit architecture with a high throughput floating-point unit, advanced cache architecture and 125 MHz (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. system bus ideally suited for imaging applications. The HP LaserJet 4100 is the fourth printer product from HP to incorporate MIPS microprocessors. The RM5200 product family is used in three other HP printers: the HP LaserJet 8150, HP Color LaserJet 4550 and HP Color LaserJet 8550. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra is accelerating the broadband revolution. PMC-Sierra's extensive family of broadband communication semiconductors enables the equipment that makes up the backbone of the Internet. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. PMC-Sierra is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol "PMCS". The company is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX NDX Index NDX Index (File Name Extension) NDX Northern Document Exchange NDX Index File ) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Nasdaq-100 Index is the benchmark for the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (Amex:QQQ QQQ The Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. This is a tracking stock which trades like an index mutual fund which follows the Nasdaq 100 index. It trades continuously. QQQ ). PMC-Sierra develops Internet Protocol (IP), ATM, SONET/SDH, T1/E1, T3/E3, Voice-over-Packet, wireless infrastructure, MIPS(TM) microprocessor, and Gigabit Ethernet solutions for wide area network (WAN), and Internet networking equipment. The company's quality system is registered with the Quality Management Institute to the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 standard. As co-founder of the SATURN(R) Development Group, PMC-Sierra works with over 30 other member companies to define and develop interoperable, standard-compliant solutions for high speed networking applications. For more information about PMC-Sierra, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com.
Technical Glossary
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
E1, E2, E3 European (world) standards for 2.048 Mbit/s,
8.448 Mbit/s, and 34.368 Mbit/s transmission,
respectively
HP Hewlett-Packard Company
IP Internet Protocol
MHz MegaHertz
MIPS(TM) Million Instructions Per Second
MPD PMC-Sierra's MIPS Processor Divison
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RM5261(TM) PMC-Sierra's RISCMark 5261 64-Bit Superscalar
Microprocessor
RM7000(TM) PMC-Sierra's RISCMark 7000 64-Bit Superscalar
Microprocessor with Integrated L2 Cache
SATURN(R) PMC-Sierra works with over 30 member companies
to define and develop interoperable,
standard-compliant solutions for high speed
networking applications
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy. Worldwide
standard for synchronous transmission systems
(typically fiber optic). Similar to SONET
SONET Synchronous Optical Network. North American
standard for synchronous transmissions systems
(typically fiber optic). See also SDH
T1 North American standard for 1.544 Mbit/s
transmission
T3 North American standard for a TDM digital
channel carrier that operates at 44.736
Mbit/s. It can multiplex 28 DS-1 signals
and is synonymous with DS-3
WAN Wide Area Network
(c)Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2001. All rights reserved. SATURN(R) is a registered trademark of PMC-Sierra, Inc. RM5261(TM), RM7000(TM), and PMC-Sierra(TM) are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. MIPS(TM) is a trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. |
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