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PLX Technology Completes First Design on Advanced 40nm Process Technology

News Release from: PLX Technology Inc
06/11/2009

PLX Technology today strengthened its industry leadership position by finishing a new design on 40nm process technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). This major achievement creates new opportunities for designers looking to reap the benefits of differentiation using PLX's well-known leading performance, low power and custom software tools. PLX is taking advantage of the 40nm geometry to develop a variety of new solutions over the next few years, including PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen 3 switches.

By moving its PCI Express products to 40nm processes, PLX is staying in lockstep with the leading-edge microprocessors coming from Intel and the most powerful graphics processing units recently introduced by AMD's ATI business, said Rob Lineback, senior market research analyst at IC Insights, Inc. Additionally, this development should enable PLX's PCI Express technology to complement soon-to-be-announced 40nm GPUs from Nvidia in performance and power efficiency.

PLX® chose TSMC as the foundry for its 40nm silicon development because of its technology leadership in 40nm geometry skills and a common vision of delivering timely product excellence, said Mike Grubisich, PLX vice president of operations. We expect to be first to market by delivering 40nm PCI Express Gen 3 switch samples to key customers and consequently retaining and increasing our commanding market lead.