BusinessWire
October 18, 2005 05:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

AMCC and UDTech Partner to Accelerate Customers' Product Development with Cost-Effective Evaluation Kits and Reference Designs for PowerPC(R)-based Products

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2005--Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (Nasdaq:AMCC) and Beijing UD Technology Company, Ltd. (UDTech) today announced a strategic partnership that will accelerate customers' development schedules and reduce time-to-market for products based on AMCC's PowerPC embedded processors and networking solutions. The partnership will encourage continued development of leading edge products by offering customers cost-effective evaluation kits and reference designs.

Under this partnership, UDTech will develop low cost evaluation kits for various AMCC processors. AMCC will provide these kits to customers worldwide, enabling them to quickly complete their processor evaluations and progress smoothly to the early phases of hardware and software development.

UDTech will also develop reference designs for AMCC, targeted at specific end-market applications served by AMCC's processor solutions. These turnkey designs will include comprehensive hardware platforms, with design packages available so that customers can replicate the current designs or use them as the starting-point for their own products. Customers will also have the option of licensing the complete software solutions available for the target applications from UDTech.

Since its inception in 1999, UDTech has developed a wide range of high-quality custom products for networking, telecom and consumer applications serving major OEM customers in China and Japan. UDTech's engineering team offers additional support with their strong expertise in hardware design and software development for markets such as VoIP systems, routers, firewalls, VPN gateways, videophones, IP PBXs and media gateways.

"We are delighted to announce this strategic partnership with UDTech," said Sam Fuller, vice president of marketing at AMCC. "This partnership is a key element of our strategy to provide comprehensive hardware/software solutions for high-volume embedded applications. UDTech's support will enhance our position as an industry-leading provider of 32-bit embedded solutions. This partnership will further enable our customers to develop leading-edge products based around our solutions."

"Customers around the world rely on UDTech and AMCC for dependable technology solutions," said John Liu, vice president of sales and marketing at UD Technology Co., Ltd. "This strategic partnership will leverage our strengths, translating into increased efficiency and flexibility for customers developing PowerPC-based products."

AMCC and UDTech expect to introduce the first evaluation kit in spring 2006. For more information, please contact your local AMCC sales office or visit http://www.amcc.com.

About AMCC

AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN) and high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters is located in San Diego, Calif. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

About UDTech

UDTech is a dedicated vertical service provider in the field of IT equipment development, manufacturing and provisioning. The company not only provides product design services, but also various product and technical solutions to accelerate product development process. With comprehensive capabilities and experiences in embedded hardware/software development and manufacturing, UDTech helps brand vendors to achieve lower development risk, cheaper product cost and faster time-to-market. UDTech's corporate headquarters is located in Beijing, China, with a sales and supporting office in Tokyo, Japan. For further information regarding UDTech, please visit our website at http://www.udtechinc.com.

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