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| Company type | Public: |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: AMCC | |
| Industry | Semiconductors & Related Devices |
| Founded | 1979; 46 years ago (1979) |
| Defunct | January 26, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-01-26) |
| Fate | Acquired byMACOM Technology Solutions[1] |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, US |
Key people | Paramesh Gopi (CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$206 million(FY 2010)[2] |
 US$-26.1 million(FY 2010)[2] | |
| US$-7.49 million(FY 2010)[2] | |
| Total assets | US$316 million(FY 2010)[3] |
| Total equity | US$281 million(FY 2010)[3] |
Number of employees | ~600 |
| Website | apm.com at theWayback Machine (archived 2016-05-16) |
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (also known asAppliedMicro,AMCC orAPM) was afabless semiconductor company designingnetwork andembeddedPower ISA (including a Power ISA license), and server processorARM (including an ARMv8-A license),optical transport andstorage products.
In 2004, AMCC bought assets,IP and engineers concerning thePowerPC 400microprocessors fromIBM for $227 million and began marketing the processors under their own name.[4] The deal also included access to IBM'sSoC design methodology and advancedCMOSprocess technology.
In 2009, AppliedMicro changed their branding from AMCC to AppliedMicro,[5] but still retain the name "Applied Micro Circuits Corporation" officially.
In 2011, AppliedMicro was integral in (co-)developingARM's first64 bit-wideAArch64 ISA-extension and became the first company to implement the resultingARMv8-A architecture with itsX-Gene Platform. In November 2012 at ARM TechCon, AppliedMicro demonstrated advanced web search capabilities and the ability to handlebig data workloads in anApache Hadoop software environment with the X-Gene Platform using FPGA emulation. A silicon implementation of X-Gene was first exhibited publicly in June 2013.[6]
In April 2016, information about the forthcoming X-Gene 3 server chips was made available. The release schedule was for the second half of 2017. The company projected an improved performance, over the X-Gene 2, that with allow it to better compete with servers using thex86-64 architecture.[7]
In November 2016,MACOM Technology Solutions announced that they would purchase AppliedMicro.[8] The acquisition was completed on January 26, 2017.[1] MACOM then sold the processor division to the private equity firm The Carlyle Group during October 2017.[9]
AppliedMicro has a sponsor level membership ofPower.org and is one of the original members.AppliedMicro is also executive member (Chairman position) of theEthernet Alliance.AppliedMicro is also a member of theOpen Compute Project.
The Processor Products group designed and marketed embedded microcontrollers as well as server processor, packet and storage processors. It included the network processors of former MMC Networks (acquired October 2000) with IBMPowerPC 4xx series microcontrollers (acquired April 2004).
Since acquiring the IBM PowerPC 400 family (marketed under the 405 and 440 series product names), AppliedMicro further developed the 460 series, which integrates the 440 CPU and multicore Power architecture devices.
In January 2008, the AppliedMicro PowerPC 405EX was awarded Product of the Year 2007, byElectronic Product magazine.
In October 2011, AppliedMicro announced its X-Gene Platform, an ARM 64-bit solution aimed at cloud and enterpriseservers.[10]
The Connectivity Products group of AppliedMicro designs, manufacturers and markets physical layer devices, framers/mappers and switch fabric devices.
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 | terabit 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 Corporation (RTC) | EthernetQoSASICs[11] | |
| 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 | 10 Gb Ethernet transceivers | $69M in cash |
| August 2010 | TPACK A/S[12], Copenhagen, Denmark | Optical Transport-Network (OTN), Carrier-class silicon packet-transport | $32 million in cash + ≤$5 million in earn-outs |
In 2005, the company paid $60 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on behalf of investors against the company, including current and former officers and directors.[13] The suit had charged the company with issuing a series of materially false and misleading statements concerning the company's operations and prospects for Q4 2001 and beyond.[14] Under the terms of the settlement, the company and defendants denied any wrongdoing. About half of the amount of the settlement was covered by insurance.[13]
SemiAccurate has been waiting for one big thing before declaring ARM servers real and AMCC has just delivered that. If you have been waiting for ARM V8 silicon to arrive, may we present to you AMCC X-Gene silicon in the wild.
Raleigh Technology Corporation designs, develops and markets application specific integrated circuits for Ethernet local-area network switches, routers, and gateways. The company's product is aimed at the higher priced, higher margin market for circuits with value-added features. The company's integrated circuits will let large firms with Ethernet local-area networks converge their voice, data, and video networks by providing guaranteed bandwidth to voice and video.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq: AMCC) today announced that it has entered into a definitive stock-purchase agreement to acquireTPACK A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark. Applied Micro Circuits will pay $32 million in cash plus up to $5 million in cash earn-outs, that are depending primarily upon TPACK revenues and product development milestones scheduled over the next eighteen months. The transaction is expected to be profit neutral, excluding transaction costs, for our fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 and to be accretive thereafter.