"With their expertise in HyperTransport technology, licensing the HyperTransport IP from API NetWorks was a logical step as we strive to provide powerful tools that make designing with programmable logic simple for our customers," said Dennis Segers, senior vice president and general manger for IP, Software and Services at Xilinx. "We expect HyperTransport technology to play a significant role in meeting the performance, bandwidth and time-to-market demands of our customers today and in the future."

With its unique flexibility that places cost management, performance and scalability in the hands of system developers, Xilinx will use HyperTransport technology to ensure its Platform FPGAs deliver the highest I/O reliability, speed and performance available today. (See related release from Xilinx for product details.)

"Legacy PCI technology can no longer keep up with the increasing bandwidth of high-speed network interfaces. Suppliers of communications and networking products must adopt new technologies, such as HyperTransport, to eliminate these system bottlenecks," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst with Insight 64. "The addition of Xilinx to the growing list of companies licensing HyperTransport technology IP signifies the continued acceptance of the technology, and places it another step ahead of alternative I/O technologies in the race to become the preferred I/O standard for networking applications."

HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport technology provides a universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within a system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It was developed to enable the chips inside of PCs and networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 24 times faster than with existing technologies.

"Xilinx is the latest company to join API NetWorks' growing list of IP licensees, which validates the company's technology leadership and the growing acceptance of HyperTransport technology as a standard for high-performance systems," said David Rich, general manger at API NetWorks.

API NetWorks is licensing HyperTransport technology IP to leading hardware vendors in the form of the HyperTransport technology physical interface and protocols for the design of custom chips and ASICs. In addition, API NetWorks continues to develop IP and products, such as its AP1011, the industry's first HyperTransport technology-to-PCI bridge chip, that will accelerate the use of HyperTransport technology in next-generation systems.

API NetWorks Increases Focus On Network Silicon Business

"With the prevailing conditions in the Alpha market, we felt it was necessary to reassess our focus, as we have always been a market-driven engineering company. We believe increasing our commitment to the Network Silicon business is a natural progression as we strive to meet market demands for increased I/O performance," said Gerry Talbot, president and CTO of API NetWorks. "Our commitment to ensuring our current Alpha server OEM partners have the necessary products and support to succeed throughout this transition will not be affected."

Immediately, API NetWorks will begin to streamline operations and strengthen its Network Silicon business by strategically transferring key employees from the Network Server business. The company will continue to support and provide product to its existing server OEMs and resellers until mid-2003, while assisting them through the transition phase, but no further server product introductions are expected.

As evidenced by company announcements, API NetWorks is rapidly gaining market share through its HyperTransport technology intellectual property (IP) licensing agreements and sales of its AP1011, the industry's first HyperTransport technology PCI bridge chip. HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits, which is finding widespread acceptance with more than 180 networking, communications and computing companies, including Cisco, Sun, Broadcom and PMC Sierra. For more information about HyperTransport” technology or the HyperTransport” Consortium, visit www.hypertransport.org.

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