XILINX VIRTEX SERIES REACHES ONE BILLION DOLLARS
IN CUMULATIVE REVENUE, IN RECORD TIME
Strategic partnering with UMC delivers world's
most successful and fastest ramping FPGA series
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13, 2002-Xilinx, Inc.,
(NASDAQ:XLNX) and UMC (NYSE: UMC) today announced that the Xilinx®
Virtex® FPGAs series, which is almost entirely built in UMC's
fabs, has reached one billion dollars in cumulative revenue since
its introduction to the market in 1998. The milestone marks the first
product series from a programmable logic company to reach the billion-dollar
mark in less than five years. The most advanced products within this
series, the Virtex-II FPGAs, were built at UMC's 300mm Fab 12A on
the company's 130nm (0.13 micron) eight layer copper/low-k process.
Rich Sevcik, senior vice president of FPGA products at Xilinx said,
"We are extremely pleased with the excellent die yields and competitive
cost structure that UMC continues to deliver. On top of that, UMC's
ability to meet our increasing volume requirements as demand for our
products rises is an essential part of our success. We are looking
forward to working with UMC on future developments particularly as
we migrate to smaller process generations such as 90 nanometer and
beyond."
"Xilinx is an excellent technology partner for UMC, as well as
a winning customer," said Fu Tai Liou, chief officer of worldwide
marketing and sales at UMC. Due to the FPGA vendor's high-volume requirements,
we have migrated a large percentage of the company's production to
300 mm wafers. As the Virtex series chips feature larger die-sizes,
Xilinx is able to realize the maximum cost benefits of manufacturing
products on the larger wafers. We are pleased our efforts helped Xilinx
reach this important milestone."
About the Virtex series
The Virtex FPGA product line currently includes four device families
derived from the original Virtex family: the Virtex-E family, the
Virtex-II Platform FPGA family, the Virtex-II EasyPath™ FPGAs,
and the Virtex-II Pro™ family of Platform FPGAs. This progression
solves a wide variety of today's high-performance, robust feature
set applications, such as optical networks, gigabit routers, wireless
cellular base stations, modem arrays, and video broadcast systems.
Capable of handling designs from 40,000 up to eight million
system gates, the Virtex-II series features the highest performance,
widest density range, highest density, and block RAM of any programmable
solution available, with features Digital Clock Management (DCM)
and XCITETM™ technology for improved signal integrity. The
Virtex-II Pro family immerses as many as four IBM PowerPC processor
cores and up to sixteen 3.125 Gbps Rocket I/O transceivers into
the Virtex-II FPGA fabric. The Xilinx Integrated Solutions Environment
(ISE) offers the most complete software environment for FPGA development
and, to support the PowerPC immersion, Xilinx and Wind River Systems
have the most complete embedded tools solution to design in the
Virex-II Pro FPGAs. Designers can now take advantage of pre-engineered
solutions for embedded, DSP, and connectivity applications with
200 different cores that support the Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro
series.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions,
including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined
system functions delivered as intellectual property cores, and unparalleled
field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array
(FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these
devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce significantly
the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral,
telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation,
aerospace, defense, low power portable and consumer markets. For
more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.
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