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of Cimaron Communications in March 1999, AMCC also acquired the
framer and mapper expertise needed to extend the Company’s capabilities
from analog and mixed-signal devices to the digital layer. With these strategic
acquisitions, we are now positioned to provide industry-leading, fiber-to-
switch silicon solutions, including framers, phys (physical layer) and PMDs.
Over the next few years, we are committed to integrating these capabilities
into complete systems-on-a-chip. The addition of Ten Mountains Design and
Cimaron Communications also expands AMCC’s market by an estimated
200–300% through increased breadth of product offering.
We are constantly looking for new ways to expand our expertise in silicon into
exciting new technologies to further enhance the Company’s total solutions.
Over the past three years, AMCC has transformed itself from a bipolar-based
company to a leader in high-speed CMOS designs. Our extensive expertise in
CMOS allows us to deliver superior high-bandwidth, high-performance standard
solutions for our customers’ application-specific needs. During fiscal 1999, we
also signed a Silicon Germanium (SiGe) agreement with IBM that will enable
the development of super-fast, highly integrated solutions and provide
AMCC with long-term access to world-leading high-performance silicon
process technologies.
END-TO-END SILICON SOLUTIONS
April 1998 Acquisition of Ten Mountains
Design, a leader in high-speed physical
media–dependent solutions for both the
data communications and telecommunica-
tions markets.
May 1998 Introduction of S2064, the
industry’s first gigabit-speed quad-channel
CMOS transceiver.
July 1998 Signing of Silicon Germanium
(SiGe) agreement with IBM providing
AMCC with advanced access and use of
IBM’s current and future generations of
SiGe BiCMOS processes and libraries.
November 1998 Introduction of S8401/ S8501
serializer/ deserializer chipset, the first
gigabit-speed High-Definition Serial Digital
Interface (HD-SDI) solution, for use in HDTV
digital switching and distribution systems.
January 1999 Introduction of S2066 and
S2067, quad-channel CMOS transceivers
for Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel net-
works, respectively.
January 1999 Introduction of S3049 (laser
driver), S3053 (quad mux with fan out
buffers) and S3054 (dual 2x2 crosspoint
switch), significantly expanding AMCC’s
OC-48 DWDM and SONET/ SDH portfolio.
January 1999 Introduction of S3038, the
first fully integrated SONET/ SDH OC-12
quad transceiver.
March 1999 Acquisition of Cimaron Commu-
nications, a leader in the design and devel-
opment of digital silicon solutions and ASIC
cores for high-speed SONET systems.
March 1999 Exceeded $100 million in annual
net revenues for the first time in the
Company’s history.
March 1999 Introduction of S1203 Explorer
IC, a SONET/ SDH overhead processing
and termination device for OC-3, -12 and
-48 applications, adding higher-layer digital
content to AMCC’s product portfolio.
March 1999 Introduction of S3046, a SONET
OC-48 transceiver, which has been
successfully validated in Alcatel’s
1603SMX system.
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