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About Xilinx

Xilinx is a leading global provider of complete solutions for programmable logic, developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, and IP (Intellectual Property) cores as predefined system-level functions. Founded in 1984, Xilinx pioneered the innovative technology of field-programmable logic arrays (FPGAs) and first commercialized the product in 1985. The Xilinx product line also includes complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). Xilinx programmable logic solutions reduce the time and speed to market for electronic device manufacturers, thereby reducing their risk. With Xilinx programmable devices, customers can design and verify their circuits faster than with traditional methods such as fixed logic gate arrays. And, because Xilinx devices are standard components that only require programming, customers do not have to wait for samples or pay the huge costs that they would with fixed-logic chips, which are already used in a wide range of digital electronics applications from wireless phone base stations to DVD players. While traditional semiconductor companies have only a few hundred customers, Xilinx has more than 7,500 customers and over 50,000 design starts worldwide. Its customers include Alcatel, Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Nortel, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Oracle, and Toshiba. Sony, Oracle, and Toshiba.

Xilinx, headquartered in San Jose, California, is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol XLNX. Xilinx employs approximately 2,600 people worldwide, about half of whom are software development engineers. Xilinx is widely regarded as one of the best-managed and financially sound high-tech companies in the semiconductor industry. Xilinx was ranked among Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2003 and is widely regarded as the best-managed, a financially sound high-tech company in the semiconductor industry. The San Francisco Chronicle also named Xilinx one of the top 50 companies to work for in Silicon Valley, and Xilinx was ranked among the top 50 performing companies in Business Week’s S&P 500 and one of the top 400 large companies by Forbes magazine. Two Xilinx customers, Cisco and Lucent, selected Xilinx as their company’s Supplier of the Year.