AppliedMicro Adds Security

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (NASDAQ:AMCC), today announced the APM86791 PacketPro(TM) Gen2 embedded processor aimed at growing network transport, enterprise and consumer markets. The APM86791 is designed to deliver the industry's most advanced but cost effective network security measures for enhanced protection against intrusion threats, system hacking and theft of system-level intellectual property. The APM86791 leverages AppliedMicro's SLIMpro(TM) Trusted Management Module (TMM) to offer multi-layered encryption and authentication capabilities that manufacturers and network administrators need to make systems impervious to the most sophisticated attacks on security keys, proprietary software code and hardware.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq: AMCC)