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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX SPARTAN SERIES EXCEEDS THREE-QUARTERS
OF ONE BILLION
DOLLARS IN SALES
Over 80 million Spartan Series devices shipped
including over half million units from
90nm Spartan-3 family
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2004 -Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today
announced that sales of low cost Spartan Series FPGAs passed 750
million dollars ($USD) since their introduction in 1998. More than
80 million devices have shipped to over 13,000 customers since the
family's debut, making the Xilinx Spartan Series the highest volume
FPGA product line in history. Shipments of the latest Spartan-3
family show continued leadership for high volume applications into
the future. The world's first FPGA family utilizing 90-nanometer
(nm) process technology, Spartan-3 is shipping in full production
volume with over five hundred thousand units delivered to customers
since the family's introduction in 2003.
"The Spartan Series was the first FPGA family designed specifically
for low cost, high volume applications. Some questioned whether
programmable logic could succeed in a space dominated by ASICs and
ASSPs. After five product generations with more than $750 million
in sales, we hear a resounding 'YES' from our customers," said
Clay Johnson, vice president and general manager of the General
Products Division at Xilinx. "Spartan Series FPGAs have widely
broadened the market for programmable logic, and we expect this
trend and our ability innovate with this product family to continue."
Spartan Series Benefits from Manufacturing and Process Technology
Leadership
Much of the success of Xilinx's Spartan Series is due to its low
cost leadership, enabled by a series of industry firsts in manufacturing
and process technology. The Spartan-3 family is the latest result
of Xilinx's focus to provide programmable logic to cost-sensitive
markets. The world's first FPGAs utilizing state-of-the-art 90nm
process technology also benefit from being produced on extremely
cost-effective 300mm wafers, yielding almost five times more die
per wafer than the previous 130nm/200mm combination. Architectural
innovations such as staggered I/O pad technology maintain the industry's
highest I/O-to-gate ratio. These are just a few of many innovations
that have enabled Xilinx to provide groundbreaking cost-density
benefits to Xilinx customers. Xilinx now offers three different
Spartan-3 devices with up to 400,000 system gates for less than
$6.50*, and ten different device-package combinations for under
$10.00*.
Platform Features for Low Cost, High Volume Applications
Today's low cost, high volume systems are also often some of the
most sophisticated. Consumer electronics applications in graphics,
networking, and telecommunications require platform capabilities
such as embedded processors, hardwired DSP functions, and support
for numerous connectivity standards. Spartan-3 FPGAs offer more
density and performance features that reduce overall system costs
through integration than any other device in its class. These include
an industry-leading combination of block and distributed RAM, up
to 784 I/Os, MicroBlaze 32-bit RISC soft processors and XtremeDSP
functionality with dedicated hardware 18x18 multipliers and up to
330 billion multiply and accumulates (MACs) per second. Additionally,
Spartan-3 devices support 24 leading I/O standards, including PCI,
HyperTransport, LVDS and RSDS.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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* Based on pricing for end of 2004, 250K units
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