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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX SHIPS MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION 90nm FPGAS-
OVER 100 TIMES NEAREST COMPETITOR
Delivers world's lowest cost and highest performance FPGAs on
90nm
with Spartan-3 and Virtex-4 families
SAN JOSE, Calif., December 27, 2004 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX),
the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions and
inventor of the FPGA, today announced it has shipped more than 1.5
million 90nm devices - executing on delivery of the world's leading
90nm FPGA families. Xilinx leads the PLD industry by more than a
year on 90nm process technology and offers immediate availability
of the company's second 90nm product line, the Virtex-4 multi-platform
FPGA family. Xilinx leveraged its 90nm expertise acquired through
volume production of its high volume Spartan-3 FPGA family to accelerate
deployment of the Virtex-4 platform FPGA family on proven 90nm technology.
"Today's milestone clearly punctuates the huge competitive
lead that Xilinx customers are enjoying in lowest cost and highest
speed," said Rich Sevcik, executive vice president of FPGA
Product Solutions at Xilinx.
Platform Features for Low Cost, High Volume Applications
The 90nm Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest-cost FPGA offering
unrivaled price points with more density and performance features
than any other device in its class. Spartan-3 devices feature 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 18x18 multipliers that deliver up to 330 billion
multiply and accumulates (MACs) per second. Additionally, Spartan-3
devices support 24 leading I/O standards, including PCI, DDR, LVDS
and RSDS.
About Xilinx Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs
Enabled by the revolutionary ASMBL (Advanced Silicon Modular Block)
architecture and advanced 90nm triple-oxide technology, Virtex-4
FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and lower power than
any other FPGA family available today. With more than 100 technical
innovations, the Virtex-4 family consists of 17 devices and three
domain-optimized platforms; Virtex-4 LX FPGAs optimized for logic-intensive
designs, Virtex-4 SX FPGAs optimized for high-performance signal
processing, and Virtex-4 FX FPGAs optimized for high-speed serial
connectivity and embedded processing. A multi-platform approach
makes it possible for customers to select the optimal mix of resources
for their application to achieve the highest functionality and breakthrough
performance at the lowest cost. Devices are shipping now. For more
information on the Virtex-4 product family, visit www.xilinx.com/virtex4.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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