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January 2001March 2001
Milestones
Wayne Price elected to board of directors.
Delivery of the S76800, the industry’s first
commercially available SiGe TIA for OC-768.
Introduction of the S3097 transmitter
and S3098 receiver chipset with clock
and data recovery and post amplifier.
Expansion of the Andover-based Digital
Products Group to a new complex.
Introduction of the S3086, a 30 Mbps
to 2.7 Gbps continuous-rate clock and
data recovery unit with unmatched
jitter performance capabilities.
Introduction of Orinoco (S1204),
the industry’s first fully integrated
framing and mapping device capable
of aggregating 12 DS3/ E3/ EC-1s
to an OC-12.
Positioned for sustained growth
Looking ahead, AMCC expects factors other than just end-market demand and CAPex to play an
important role in its success. In fact, the Company has identified several critical market trends that
it believes will drive the industry, and thereby the success of AMCC.
The first factor is the market trend to higher speeds in the network. As the demands of end users
continue to grow, faster, more cost-efficient and reliable networking solutions will play a major part
in the success of bandwidth providers. AMCC’s advanced capabilities in network processing and
switching solutions, as well as its demonstrated track record in OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768 tech-
nology, position the Company for significant growth in this area.
AMCC expects to continue to expand its market penetration into the higher-level digital functions.
In today’s highly competitive equipment market, the Company expects a faster migration from cus-
tomers developing their own custom devices, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), to
using application-specific standard products (ASSPs) that AMCC provides. The Company’s customers
will also increasingly need ASSPs that can help them meet tight time-to-production ramp schedules
due to volatile and demanding service provider requirements. As the proliferation of digital
OC-12
OC-48
Network Processors
& Traffic Management
OC-192
PMD Physical
Layer Framer
Layer
OC-768
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Switch Fabric Capacity
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AMCC delivers solutions for a wide range of speeds.
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