Electronics Globalpress Summit Conference - News roundup

AMCC is a company with an aspiration. "AMCC will be the absolute, unequivocal leader in OTN", claimed AMCC CEO Kambiz Hooshmand at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco yesterday.

OTN, or optical transport networks, are optimised for data traffic and Hooshmand is positioning his company as the most capable player in the industry in the processing, transmission and storage of information.

Hooshmand is relying on four core competencies to get him there: RAID controllers, advanced analogue, framers and packet processing.

Those give AMCC superior capabilities in the processing of video which, AMCC believes, is driving Internet traffic. "Now the networks are optimized for data and video and voice rides free on those networks", said Hooshmand.

"We were the leader in 10Gbit Ethernet and will be the leader in 100Gbit Ethernet", boasted Hooshmand.

The company had revenues of $293m last year and is expected to do $246m this year, "We have $185m cash and are cash-flow positive", said Hooshmand.

AMCC recently set up a design centre in Vietnam and is working with Mentor Graphics to develop educational courses for the Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM).