| Type | Public: (NASDAQ: AMCC) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors & Related Devices |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| Key people | Paramesh Gopi, CEO |
| Revenue | US$206M (FY 2010)[1] |
| Operating income | US$-26.1M (FY 2010)[1] |
| Net income | US$-7.49M (FY 2010)[1] |
| Total assets | US$316M (FY 2010)[2] |
| Total equity | US$281M (FY 2010)[2] |
| Employees | ~600 |
| Website | www.apm.com |
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) (also known as AppliedMicro or AMCC or APM) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture (including a Power Architecture license), and server processor ARM (including a ARMv8 license), optical transport and storage solutions. They bought assets, IP and engineers concerning the PowerPC 400 microprocessors from IBM in 2004 for $227 million and they now market the processors under their own name. The deal also included access to IBM's SoC design methodology and advanced CMOS process technology.
In 2009 AppliedMicro changed their branding from AMCC to AppliedMicro, but still retain the name "Applied Micro Circuits Corporation" officially.
AppliedMicro has a sponsor level membership of Power.org and is one of the original members. AppliedMicro is also executive member (Chairman position) of the Ethernet Alliance.
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This Processor business designs and markets embedded microcontrollers as well as server processor, packet and storage processors. It combines the network processors of former MMC Networks (acquired October 2000) with IBM PowerPC 4xx series microcontrollers (acquired April 2004).
Since purchasing the IBM PowerPC 400 family (under the 405 and 440 series product names), AppliedMicro has developed the 460 series and a multicore Power architecture CPUs (Titan, formerly MultiGHz, announced early in 2007).
In January 2008, the AppliedMicro PowerPC 405EX was awarded PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2007, by Electronic Product Magazine.
Also in January 2008, AppliedMicro announced an extension of its relationship with IBM Semiconductor; IBM now incorporates the AppliedMicro PowerPC 4xx product line in its Semiconductor Solutions offering. Under this expanded relationship, AppliedMicro and IBM’s Semiconductor Solutions sales forces both market AppliedMicro's PowerPC 4xx products. AppliedMicro has added customers like Accusys and Qlogic to its large customer base for its PowerPC product line.
The Transport Business Unit with AppliedMicro designs, manufacturers and markets physical layer devices, framers/mappers and switch fabric devices. AppliedMicro has also a strong 10Gbit/s Physical layer devices portfolio and currently lead 10GBPS PHY market. AppliedMicro announced (01/29/2008) PEMAQUID / S19258, a XAUI-to-XFI 10G LAN/WAN/OTN Framer/Mapper/PHY device for 10GbE, 10G Fibre Channel, WIS (OC-192/STM-64) and OTU2 network applications. The PEMAQUID (S19258) represents AppliedMicro's first device in its MEtrON (Metro Ethernet Optical Networks) product family that is designed for Metro Ethernet and Carrier Grade Ethernet solutions systems. PEMAQUID enables cost-effective Carrier Ethernet solutions for the Metro WDM Transport Network.
Throughout the years, AppliedMicro has acquired smaller companies to enter new markets.
| Date | Acquired Company | Expertise | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Ten Mountain Design | transceiver design | |
| March 1999 | Cimaron Communications | SONET chips | $115M in stock |
| April 2000 | Yuni Networks | teribit switch fabrics | $241M in stock |
| April 2000 | Chameleon Technologies | fibre channel and SONET products | |
| April 2000 | PBaud Logic Inc. | SONET and forward-error-correction | |
| September 2000 | Silutia | CMOS mixed-signal design | 566,000 shares of stock |
| October 2000 | MMC Networks | network processors | $4500M in stock |
| March 2001 | Raleigh Technology Corp. | ||
| September 2003 | PowerPRS product line from IBM | switch fabrics | $47M |
| December 2003 | JNI | fibre channel products | $196M in cash |
| April 2004 | PowerPC 400 series product line from IBM | embedded microprocessors | $227M in cash |
| April 2004 | 3ware | RAID controllers | $150M in cash |
| August 2006 | Quake Technologies | 10Gb Ethernet transceivers | $69M in cash |