Xilinx Expects to Win More Business With New Low-Power Programmable Chips
New Breakthrough Technology in Low-Power Chips Targeted For Information Appliance Industry
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX - news) today embarked on an initiative to assume a
leadership position and increase its penetration in the $44.4 billion dollar
information appliance industry.*
Xilinx new low-power CoolRunner-II chips
offer breakthrough high-performance technology for today's information
appliances such as PDAs, smart phones, digital cameras, home audio, Internet
gaming and wireless devices.
The new line is the only programmable device
designed specifically to address this segment and supports the company's drive
for market diversification.
"Today's introduction of our new CoolRunner-II CPLD line represents years
of vision, strategic planning, and product development," said Wim Roelandts,
president and CEO at Xilinx.
"Immediately following the Philips acquisition
we challenged our engineers to develop the most technologically advanced
low-power chip on the market -- and they delivered.
This new line of
low-power, high-performance chips will clearly place Xilinx in a leadership
position among CPLD suppliers."
Already the leading supplier of FPGAs, Xilinx stepped up its presence in
the highly competitive CPLD market segment with its acquisition of the Philips
XPLA line in June of 1999.
Since that time the company has increased its
presence in the CPLD business by nearly two-fold.
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
http://www.xilinx.com.
Safe Harbor Statement:
This release contains forward-looking statements
and projections.
Actual events and results may differ materially from those
in the forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties
including the general health of global economies, the health of our end
markets and our customers' end markets, our ability to manufacture
CoolRunner-II CPLDs in a timely period and customer acceptance of the
CoolRunner-II CPLD family.