Xilinx Cuts Prices

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Based on its long-standing initiative to reduce cost through technology and deliver lower cost solutions to its customers, Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX) today announced new industry-leading price points for its Virtex-II Pro FPGA family. The company attributes these new price points to its aggressive move to 300 mm wafers and the smallest die size in its class, and represent reductions of up to 50 percent compared to 2002 price levels. Already the leading FPGA provider, today's price points place Xilinx clearly in the lead in offering the lowest cost programmable solutions in the industry. Xilinx now offers the most powerful, lowest-cost integrated solutions in its class, and is the only programmable supplier to offer over 6,700 logic cells and 500K bits of embedded block memory plus an embedded PowerPC processor and four RocketIO serial transceivers for under $30. With the new price points, Xilinx also offers 20,000 logic cells and 1.5M bits of embedded RAM with two PowerPCprocessors and eight RocketIO transceivers for under $100. "This move illustrates our focus on continuing to drive down costs for our customers while meeting their demand for superior devices. In today's economic times affordable solutions are the "watchword" for customers considering programmable logic as an alternative to the high cost of developing ASICs" said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president and general manager for FPGA Products at Xilinx. "This unprecedented price reduction will help us to further bridge the ASIC gap and is a result of our long term strategy to develop the most aggressive manufacturing processes in the industry."Xilinx Inc.