Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
Acquisitions
Throughout the years, AppliedMicro has acquired smaller companies to enter new markets.

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation

Section Title: Acquisitions
Table Section Text: Throughout the years, AppliedMicro has acquired smaller companies to enter new markets.

Date	Acquired company	Expertise	Amount

April 1998	Ten Mountain Design	transceiver design

March 1999	Cimaron Communications	SONET chips	$115M in stock

April 2000	Yuni Networks	terabit switch fabrics	$241M in stock

April 2000	Chameleon Technologies	Fibre Channel and SONET products

April 2000	PBaud Logic Inc.	SONET and forward-error-correction

September 2000	Silutia	CMOS mixed-signal design	566,000 shares of stock

October 2000	MMC Networks	network processors	$4500M in stock

March 2001	Raleigh Technology Corporation (RTC)	Ethernet QoS ASICs

September 2003	PowerPRS product line from IBM	switch fabrics	$47M

December 2003	JNI	Fibre Channel products	$196M in cash

April 2004	PowerPC 400 series product line from IBM	embedded microprocessors	$227M in cash

April 2004	3ware	RAID controllers	$150M in cash

August 2006	Quake Technologies	10 Gb Ethernet transceivers	$69M in cash

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In 2004, AMCC acquired the PowerPC 400 microprocessors from IBM for $227 million.

final_sentence: In 2004, AMCC acquired the PowerPC 400 microprocessors from IBM for $227 million.