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To: The Ox who wrote (2528)	5/19/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

the latest on AMCC. hey, let's hope their next product is dubbed "the cuyahoga." you know, the ohio river that caught on fire ... and for you REM fans: "let's put our heads together, start a new country up, underneath the river bed we burned the river down. this is where they walked, swam, hunted, danced and sang, take a picture here, take a souvenir cuyahoga cuyahoga, gone" (c'mon, cut me some slack -- no posts in over a week. sheesh.) ----- Electronic Buyers' News May 17, 1999, Issue: 1160 Section: Communications AMCC releases OC-48 mapper/framer chip -- Network-chip maker testing new waters in wake of Cimaron buy Mark LaPedus Silicon Valley -- Bearing the first fruit of its recent acquisition of Cimaron Communications Corp., LAN/WAN-chip specialist Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has introduced a multiprotocol chip for use in 2.5-Gbit/s (OC-48) applications. The new Amazon chip-which performs mapping and framing functions in both ATM and packet-over-SONET networks-was developed by Cimaron, a fabless IC design house in Andover, Mass., acquired by AMCC last March for $117 million in stock. The acquisition was a significant move for San Diego-based AMCC. The company gained rapid entry into the digital mapper and framer segments of the WAN-chip business, putting it into direct competition with Lucent Microelectronics, PMC-Sierra, and others, analysts said. The deal also enabled AMCC to expand beyond its core mixed-signal physical-layer (PHY) IC business. Built with high-speed bipolar and CMOS process technologies, AMCC's PHY chips are designed for Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, and related markets. In those markets, AMCC's primary competition comes from Vitesse Semiconductor, which also is making acquisitions to bolster its non-PHY chip business, analysts said. AMCC has high hopes for its new subsidiary. Cimaron's first mapper/framer chip, the Congo, was designed for 622-Mbit/s (OC-12) applications. The Amazon chip is an OC-48 version of the Congo. "Both OC-3 [155 Mbits/s] and OC-12 networks are established in the market, but a large portion of the network traffic is now moving over OC-48 backbones," said John Langevin, product marketing manager for AMCC. "Amazon also supports multiprotocol environments," he said. "Some [carriers and OEMs] prefer packet-over-SONET, while others like ATM. It doesn't matter to us, but the fact is that we have the first chip on the market that can map and frame cell-based data or packet-data in an OC-48 network." The Amazon also performs functions such as clock recovery and serial/parallel conversion in switches, routers, and other LAN/WAN equipment. The chip is available now for $325 in 1,000s.