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NetLogic Microsystems Now Sampling Second Generation Knowledge-Based Processor Family; NL6000 Processor Family Extends Company's Leadership Position in Processing Performance and Power Efficiency

Posted on: Monday, 2 May 2005, 09:00 CDT

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NETL), a leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced sample availability of its second generation knowledge-based processor product family known as the NL6000. The NL6000 family is a series of ultra high-speed, low-power network performance enhancing processors designed for applications such as Edge, Core, Access, Metro and Enterprise switches, routers and access equipment.

"By introducing a second generation of knowledge-based processors, we are moving the available performance and power efficiency beyond the leadership capabilities of our first generation products allowing a greater level of intelligence to be added to the highest performance routing and switching equipment," said Jim McDermott, director of product marketing for NetLogic Microsystems. "The NL6512D-400 is now sampling at 400MHz operating frequency, which represents a 50 percent increase over the fastest products currently in volume production, and is further targeted to operate at speeds up to 500MHz. Using a new core processing technology, the NL6000 will deliver these enhanced performance levels while consuming less than half the power of the prior generation NL5000 family devices. We are very pleased to see the NL6000 family sampling to the market with first pass silicon success, which is a tribute to the skill and development efficiency of our R&D team."

The NL6000 family of knowledge-based processors is based on a new processing core design that utilizes innovative circuit techniques and architectural advancements to almost double the performance while reducing the power consumption by more than half over previous designs. Included in this new processor core is an intelligent active power management control that is used to selectively turn off unused processing elements on a cycle-by-cycle basis. In order to effectively deploy the available processing capability, the NL6000 family products also integrate an enhanced input/output (I/O) technology that supports data input rates up to 36 Gigabits per second.

Key to NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processor design is the use of parallel processing and deep pipelining techniques, which allows the device to handle multiple tasks at higher throughput rates. Parallel processing enables multiple decisions to be made simultaneously for QoS, access control and voice/video packet forwarding, which significantly increases performance and allows IPv6 packet processing at wire-speed.

Similar to NetLogic Microsystems' NL5000 knowledge-based processors, the NL6000 product family is built on advanced CMOS logic, copper interconnect, low-power process. In conjunction with the NL6000's innovative architecture, the low power transistors maximize performance and yield while achieving lower power and higher reliability than can be attained with previous designs.

The NL5000 and NL6000 families of knowledge-based processors are footprint compatible, allowing existing designs to easily migrate to NL6000 knowledge-based processors. The NL6000 processors are available in small 25 x 25 mm footprint packages and have already achieved early success with sampling to tier one customers.

Availability and Pricing

NetLogic Microsystems' NL6000 processor is currently available in sample quantities. For sampling and pricing information please contact sales@netlogicmicro.com. For more information on NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processor products please visit: http://www.netlogicmicro.com/products/kbp.html.

About NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NETL), a fabless semiconductor company located in Mountain View, Calif., designs, develops and markets high performance knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced Internet, corporate and other networking systems, such as routers, switches, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems knowledge-based processors use advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge database containing network and network user information to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Knowledge-based processors significantly enhance the ability of networking OEMs, to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as voice transmission over the Internet, or VoIP, virtual private networks, or VPNs, and streaming video and audio. NetLogic Microsystems also provides NPU interface knowledge-based processors solutions to Intel and AMCC network processors that accelerate design and development of leading-edge networking equipment. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650-961-6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

NetLogic Microsystems and the NetLogic Microsystems logo are trademarks of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding NetLogic Microsystems' business which are not historical facts may be "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those projected in any such forward-looking statements depending on a variety of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, customer acceptance and demand for our products, the volume of sales to our principal product customers, manufacturing yields for our products, the timing of manufacture and delivery of product by our foundry suppliers, the length of our sales cycles, our average selling prices, the strength of the OEM networking equipment market and the cyclical nature of that market and the semiconductor industry. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, our reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as well as other reports that NetLogic Microsystems files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and NetLogic Microsystems undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.

Source: Business Wire

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