Agoura Hills, CA, November 19, 2001 – Internet Machines Corporation, developer of the IMpower™ family of highly integrated, protocol independent network processing solutions, today revealed that it has selected Fujitsu's fast cycle random access memory (FCRAM™) for use in 10 Gbps/OC-192c designs that implement Internet Machines' NPE10 network processor and TMC10 traffic management co-processor. The fully software programmable IMpower architecture performs packet parsing, classification, lookup and packet editing in addition to ingress and egress traffic management at wire speed. Fujitsu's FCRAM meets the stringent memory access requirements necessary for full duplex OC-192c, 50 million packets per second (Mpps) wire-speed forwarding. Its reduced latency, as well as the lack of a discrete precharge cycle, provides a significant improvement in reducing access time and increasing bandwidth.

FCRAM delivers extremely fast random access cycle time at significantly lower power than traditional memory technologies. High performance systems, such as IP/MPLS routers and switches, high-speed metro core and edge switches for the emerging optical network, network elements for data centers, storage area networks (SANs), network attached storage (NAS), and high-end network access equipment using the IMpower architecture with FCRAM technology will benefit from wire-speed packet processing and table lookups, while conserving board space and power.

"Today's emerging multiservice and multiprotocol systems depend on high performance memory that doesn't add significant power consumption or board space requirements," said Aloke Gupta, Internet Machines' vice president of marketing. "Because our IMpower architecture is fully software programmable in order to support any type of protocol or service, fast cycle memory lookups are crucial. FCRAM delivers the highest speed available, at lower power and space."

"Fast Cycle RAM technology is the ideal choice for these powerful new network processor architectures," said Keith Horn, vice president of marketing, Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. "FCRAM delivers a combination of fast random cycle time, low latency, and reduced power requirements in a compact area. We are very pleased to add Internet Machines to the growing list of leaders who have adopted the technology."

About Fujitsu FCRAM
Fujitsu's Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAMTM) is a revolutionary architecture that provides high-speed random access capabilities by combining the FCRAM core with the high-speed data transfer rate provided by DDR. The core improves performance by using a proprietary pipeline operation and hidden pre-charge to reduce the random access cycle time to less than half of today's fastest SDRAM, Rambus and DDR memory technologies. In addition, FCRAM's highly segmented memory core uses less than half the power of DDR-SDRAM under the same conditions.

About IMpower
The IMpower product family consists of three protocol-independent chips and a software development kit (SDK): the NPE10 network processing engine, the TMC10 traffic management co-processor, the SE200 switch element, and the Development Workbench SDK. The IMpower family of chips delivers the highest level of integration, performance and ease of use available for developers of OC-192c and 10 Gbps optical, metro area, and Internet infrastructure systems. By using patent-pending techniques and an advanced 0.13-micron process, Internet Machines is able to deliver industry-leading integration levels, as well as true wire-speed packet processing for any packet size at full-duplex OC-192c rates. The three chips are designed to work together to deliver a complete system-centric solution, or designers can select an individual chip for use with other networking components.

About Internet Machines
Internet Machines is a fabless semiconductor company that offers the IMpower™ family of highly integrated communications ICs for OC-192c and 10 Gbps optical, metro area network and Internet infrastructure equipment. The protocol independent IMpower family consists of the NPE10 network processing engine, the TMC10 traffic management co-processor, the SE200 switch element, and the Development Workbench software development kit. This powerful array of wire-speed, fully programmable semiconductors and software simplifies development and greatly shortens the system vendor's time to market. The ICs work together or individually to deliver a highly flexible, interoperable, and field upgradeable solution. The company is headquartered in Agoura Hills in Southern California, with design centers located in San Diego and Irvine, and sales offices in San Jose, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

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Kathy Tebben
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