Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (also known as AppliedMicro, AMCC or APM) was a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power ISA (including a Power ISA license), and server processor ARM (including an ARMv8-A license), optical transport and storage products.
History
In 2004, AMCC bought assets, IP and engineers concerning the PowerPC 400 microprocessors from IBM for $227 million and began marketing the processors under its own name.[3] The deal also included access to IBM's SoC design methodology and advanced CMOS process technology.
In 2009, AppliedMicro changed its branding from AMCC to AppliedMicro,[4] but still retain the name "Applied Micro Circuits Corporation" officially.
In 2011, AppliedMicro was integral in (co-)developing ARM's first 64 bit-wide