SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), or AppliedMicro, today announced its next-generation PacketPro™ multicore processor System-on-a-Chip (SoC) family, designed with advanced subsystem and offload acceleration hardware to enable new levels of security, high availability, low latency, and power management for embedded applications.

PacketPro is AppliedMicro’s second-generation embedded processor SoC family and the first to feature offload of critical features for multiple PowerPC® processors with frequency capabilities ranging in performance from 600 MHz to 2.0 GHz and beyond. The innovative SoC subsystem design features the Scalable Lightweight Intelligent Management processor or SLIMpro™ to enable breakthrough flexibility in SoC power management, protected asymmetric multiprocessing (PMP), failover protection, resiliency and end-to-end security for a wide range of mission-critical applications in wireless and wired networking, multi-function printer, industrial, access point markets.

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