AppliedMicro’s Energy Conscious Processors Continue Drive Toward Low-Power Processing
December 07 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), or
AppliedMicro, a global leader in energy conscious computing and
communications solutions, today announced energy efficient versions
of the company’s families of 405 and 460 microprocessors that
consume up to 40 percent less power for a variety of embedded
applications. The company’s Power Architecture® 405EX, 405EXr,
460EX, 460EXr and 460GT processors have been optimized for
low-power consumption.
“Emerging data service models and exploding use of video-based
applications place increasing performance demands on embedded
systems, yet energy consumption is a growing concern for both
systems designers and end-users,” said Robert Fanfelle,
AppliedMicro’s associate vice president of strategic marketing.
“AppliedMicro’s low-power Power Architecture 405 and 460 processors
represent the company’s focus to bring game-changing energy
efficiency to embedded systems without sacrificing performance. The
new versions of these processors offer identical functionality and
performance with the advantage of low power consumption to enable
system designers to reduce their energy consumption and meet
environmentally-conscious goals.”
The new low-power processor family members offer up to 40
percent lower worst case power consumption and an improvement of
about 20 percent in typical power consumption. For example, the
Power Architecture 405EXr, which finds application in wireless LAN
access points as well as NAS storage systems and media gateways,
now offers a maximum worst case active power consumption of just
over 2 watts, a reduction of almost 1.5 watts, or 40 percent.
All current AppliedMicro customers using 405EX/EXr and
460EX/EXr/GT products will be migrated to the new low-power
variants. Moving forward, all new customers for these products will
use the low-power version.
“End users and OEMs alike are seeing a strong market shift to
systems that are increasingly energy efficient, and we have
provided our customers with a solution that does not compromise
performance for energy savings,” said Gopi Sirineni, associate vice
president of AppliedMicro’s consumer and small/medium business
division.
AppliedMicro’s Power Architecture 405EX and 405EXr processors
are designed into 802.11 wireless access points, WiMAX™ base
stations and general networking and embedded systems. The 405EX
offers core frequencies up to 600MHz along with a multitude of
industry-standard interfaces including DDR2 SDRAM, two gigabit
Ethernet, and two PCI-Express interfaces.
The Power Architecture 460EX/EXr/GT processors are designed for
enterprise and carrier-class switching and routing equipment,
multi-function printers and industrial applications. The 460-based
devices offer speeds up to 1.2 GHz, a 256KB L2 cache, and an
integrated floating-point unit. The 460EX/GT offers up to four
gigabit Ethernet interfaces, two PCI-Express interfaces, legacy PCI
support, two USB 2.0 interfaces, a SATA controller, hardware-RAID
acceleration and Kasumi encryption/decryption. Both the 405EX/EXr
and the 460 devices have a hardware-based crypto-engine for data
security acceleration.
Availability
The low-power versions of AppliedMicro’s Power Architecture
405EX, 405EXr, 460EX, 460EXr, and 460GT products are now available
in production quantities. The data sheets for these new lower power
variants are currently available on AppliedMicro’s website. Please
contact your sales representative for more information.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing
solutions for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB
applications. With a 30-year heritage as an innovator in high-speed
connectivity and high performance embedded processing, AMCC, now
AppliedMicro, employs patented Power Architecture SoCs to provide
energy efficient products that can deliver up to a 40 percent
reduction in power consumption without sacrificing performance.
AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale,
California. Sales and engineering offices are located
throughout the world. For further information regarding
AppliedMicro, visit the company’s Web site at
http://www.appliedmicro.com.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, AppliedMicro and the
AppliedMicro logo are registered trademarks of Applied Micro
Circuits Corporation. PacketPro and MultiEase are trademarks of
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. The Power Architecture and
Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related
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other product or service names are the property of their respective
owners.
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