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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation

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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NasdaqAMCC) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture, optical transport and storage solutions. They bought assets, IP and engineers concerning the PowerPC 400 microprocessors from IBM in 2004 for $227 million and they now market the processors under their own name. The deal also included access to IBM's SoC design methodology and advanced CMOS process technology.

AMCC has a sponsor level membership of Power.org and is one of the original members.