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AMCC Remains No. 1 Worldwide Vendor of Merchant Switch Fabrics, Reports Market Research Firm The Linley Group

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 09:00 CDT

AMCC's Marketshare More than Triple that of Nearest Competitor

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (NASDAQ: AMCC) today announced that market research firm The Linley Group again ranked AMCC No. 1 worldwide in the sale of merchant switch fabrics (MSF) for 2004, with a total 58% marketshare. AMCC continues to gain marketshare year over year, resulting in a 10% growth over last year and a commanding 41% lead over the next ranked Switch Fabric vendor.

"With the acquisition of IBM's PRS product line, AMCC enhanced its fabric portfolio and added leading OEMs and incremental revenue," said Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "AMCC's long-term roadmap based on the PRS and nPX8005 Cyclone architectures positions the company for continued leadership. With its broad portfolio of networking chips, AMCC is one of the few vendors delivering complete end-to-end products, including framers and PHYs, NPUs, and switch fabrics that scale to terabit throughput."

"As the Switch Fabric market continues to grow, Tier One customers are responding to our low latency, high quality of service capability, which enables voice, video and data services using our industry-leading switch fabric solutions," said Mark Hunsicker, vice president of marketing for AMCC's Communications Group. "AMCC's proven expertise combined with the inherent multi-terabit scalability afforded by the PRS architecture allows us to not only protect customer investments but accelerate time to market for OEMs today and into the future."

AMCC's switch fabric roadmap covers 5Gbps to multi-terabits, and consists of its market-leading PRS switch fabric family, in its sixth generation of devices, and its nPX8005 Cyclone terabit switch fabric. On-time delivery, quality, outstanding support, and triple S - 'Silicon, Software and Support' - are the foundations of AMCC's success. The company's switch fabric portfolio is integrated into a broad customer base, addressing applications such as director-class storage systems for high potential start-ups as well as established Tier-One wide area networking system vendors such as Nortel, Alcatel, Huawei and Tellabs.

About AMCC

AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN), and high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

Forward Looking Statements

The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the markets, growth of markets and products, including the risk that the markets would not grow at the rates forecasted, and the demand for products would not materialize, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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