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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX WIDENS PROCESS TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP -
SHIPS MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION 90NM FPGAS
Company's 90nm Virtex-4 and Spartan-3 FPGAs
are the lowest power dissipation and lowest cost in the industry
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 3, 2005 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:
XLNX) today announced it has shipped more than 3.5 million 90nm
devices - generating three times more 90nm revenue than its nearest
competitor. Xilinx leads the PLD industry by more than two years
in 90nm chip making technology and has leveraged its expertise to
deliver four 90nm FPGA families - the Virtex-4, Spartan-3E, Spartan-3L
and Spartan-3 families. Today's milestone underscores the company's
commitment to leverage advance process technologies to satisfy customer
demand for increasingly low cost, high performance devices. Xilinx
credits its 90nm success in part to its multi-foundry strategy with
manufacturing partners UMC and Toshiba Corporation.
"The 90nm node is mainstream for Xilinx. While other semiconductor
vendors are just starting to evaluate 90nm technology, Xilinx has
been delivering 90nm silicon to customers for over two years,"
said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president and general manager of the
FPGA Products Group at Xilinx. "By aggressively moving down
the process technology curve, we have been able to refine the node
to overcome industry challenges like increased static power consumption
and signal integrity to ultimately deliver the world's lowest cost
and highest performance FPGAs."
Platform Features for Low Cost, High Volume Applications
In 1998, Xilinx ignited the low cost FPGA revolution with the introduction
of the Spartan Series. Today, Spartan Series FPGAs are broadly adopted
in high-volume, consumer applications, with over 100 million units
shipped and $1 billion in cumulative revenue. With the March, 2005
introduction of it's Spartan-3E family , Xilinx continues to add
new market-specific features to its low cost Spartan Series while
reducing the cost by 30X since its introduction, offering 1000 logic
cells for as little as $0.46*.
About Xilinx Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs
Named 2004 Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine,
Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and
lower power than any other FPGA family available today. Manufactured
using the world's first triple-oxide 90nm CMOS technology with 11-layer
metal interconnect, Virtex-4 devices represent a quantum leap in
programmable device architecture, technology, and system design
capabilities. 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. 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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*500K unit volume, second half 2006
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