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AMCC North American Company Profiles
Products and Processes
AMCC produces and sells bipolar and BiCMOS gate array and standard cell ASICs, custom bipolar IC products, and
standard bipolar and CMOS products.
The company’s portfolio of ASSPs for high-performance networking, clock/timing, and bus interface applications,
and ASICs include the following:
Sonet/SDH Interface Circuits PCI Bus Controllers
Fibre Channel Interface Circuits Crosspoint Switches
HiPPI Source and Destination Interface Circuits Clock Generators/Synthesizers
Gigabit Ethernet Interface Circuits Clock Drivers
ATM Interface Circuits ECL Terminator
Q20000 Series ECL/TTL “Turbo” Logic Arrays
MicroPower 3V, low power, bipolar, standard cell ASICs
As part of its push into communications markets, AMCC redesigned its G3.0 bipolar process, obtained through a
technology alliance with Plessey, to allow for 3.3V operation. Parts derived from the 1.0μm process can be
operated at up to 2.4GHz.
Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities
AMCC operates from a 120,000 square foot facility in San Diego, California, that includes a design center for
customer design use and training, a Class 10 cleanroom for bipolar IC production, and an assembly and test facility.
The company has established strategic foundry partners to augment its wafer supply.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
6195 Lusk Boulevard
San Diego, California 92121
Cleanroom size: 10,000 square feet (Class 10)
Capacity (wafers/week): 1,200
Wafer size: 100mm
Processes: Bipolar, BiCMOS
Products: ASICs, ASSPs, custom ICs
Feature sizes: 1.0μm, 2.0μm, 3.0μm
AMCC's capacity is only about half utilized and the company expects its current manufacturing resources to reach
maximum levels in a few years.
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