Corporate Announcements	Japan Announcements
Product Announcements	China Announcements
Financial Announcements

Corporate Announcements - 2003

• Xilinx Chief Technology Officer To Keynote 90nm And Beyond Semico Conference - December 17, 2003
• Xilinx Appoints Intel Executive To VP Of Operations Post
  - December 9, 2003
• Xilinx Named Most Respected Public Fabless Company For Second Consecutive Year At FSA Awards Dinner Celebration
  - December 8, 2003
• Xilinx Chief Technology Officer To Deliver Keynote Address At 2003 Software Defined Radio Techincal Conference And Product Exposition - November 14, 2003
• Xilinx CEO Shares Insight On Business And Ethics With Millions Of Travelers Throughout The Globe - November 13, 2003
• Xilinx Delivering Industry's Broadest Lead-Free PLD Portfolio
  - October 27, 2003
• Xilinx Vice President Of HR To Deliver "Best-Of-The-Best" Case Study At HR Masters Symposium 2003 - October 22, 2003
• Xilinx Champions Silicon Valley Walk For AIDS - October 15, 2003
• "Spirit Of Xilinx" Comes Alive At Xilinx.com - October 9, 2003
• Xilinx Forms Major Collaborative Research Project With Queens University Belfast - October 9, 2003
• Xilinx To Present At American Production And Inventory Control Society (APICS) Conference - October 6, 2003
• AMCC, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Texas Instruments And Xilinx Team To Align 10Gbps Standards - October 6, 2003
• Xilinx Accelerates Expansion Into $23B ASIC Market With Breakthrough Pricing For 90nm Spartan-3 Family Of FPGAs
  - October 6, 2003
• Xilinx Joins Fellow Industry Leaders On Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group Board Of Directors - September 30, 2003
• Xilinx Chairman And CEO To Address Semiconductor Manufacturing Community At International Symposium On Semiconductor Manufacturing - September 25, 2003
• Xilinx Vice President To Discuss Process Technology Opportunities At IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
  - September 18, 2003
• Today At a Press Conference In Taiwan, Xilinx & UMC Executives Re-Affirm Technology Leadership; Disclose Next-Generation Virtex Plans - September 15, 2003
• Xilinx Event Alert For Intel Developers Forum, Booth #135 - September 12, 2003
• Insight and Xilinx Announce X-Fest 2003 - September 10, 2003
• Xilinx Event Alert For Embedded Systems Conference Boston, Booth #409 - September, 10, 2003
• Xilinx And Co-Sponsors Agilent, Cadence And IBM Deliver The Industry's Biggest Technical Training Of The Year At Programmable World Workshops - August 27, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Record Revenues In Consumer Applications
  - July 21, 2003
• Xilinx Appears At Semicon West 2003 In Advanced Packaging Seminar Keynote - July 14, 2003
• Industry Leaders and Visionaries Tout Benefits Of Programmability At Global Programmable World 2003 Forums And Workshops
  - July 7, 2003
• Xilinx Media Alert for Free Connectivity Solutions Webcast - June 26,2003
• Industry Visionaries Herald New Era Of Programmable Systems At Programmable World 2003 Japan - June 25, 2003
• Ziptronix Appoints Xilinx CTO To Technical Advisory Board
  - June 24, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers Platform FPGA Solutions At Engineering Of Reconfigurable Systems And Algorithms Conference - June 20, 2003
• Xilinx Wins Award For "The Year's Ten Best Web Support Sites" From Association Of Support Professionals - June 19, 2003
• Major Industry Visionaries Keynote Programmable World 2003 Japan - June 17, 2003
• Xilinx Appoints Harold E. Hughes Jr. To Board Of Directors
  - June 12, 2003
• Xilinx Ships Two Million Devices On 300mm Wafers Providing Customers Unmatched FPGA Cost Advantages - June 10, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Technology Collaboration With BMW WilliamsF1 Team For The 2003 Formula One Season - May 30, 2003
• Xilinx Media Alert For Design Automation Conference 2003
  - May 29, 2003
• Xilinx Appoints New CPLD Division Vice President And General Manager - May 28, 2003
• Media Alert For Programmable World 2003 Simulcast - May 2, 2003
• Xilinx Welcomes Intel As Major Sponsor Of Programmable World 2003 - May 1, 2003
• Agilent, Cadence, IBM, Intel, Mentor, TI & Xilinx Headline High-Speed Serial Panel At Programmable World 2003 - April 28, 2003
• Xilinx Chairman And Respected Electronics Industry Veteran "Bernie" Vonderschmitt To Retire - April 23, 2003
• Xilinx Media Alert For Embedded Systems Conference, Booth #1813
  - April 23, 2003
• Xilinx Targets $23B Market with 90nm Spartan-3 Programmable Chips - April 14, 2003
• Xilinx Ships World's First 90nm Programmable Chips -
  March 31, 2003
• Xilinx First to 130nm 300mm Production Qualification at UMC with Virtex-II Pro - March 28, 2003
• UMC Honors Xilinx For Milestone Achievement: 300mm Volume Manufacturing On Advanced Technologies - March 27, 2003
• Xilinx Shipping All Advanced FPGA Product Lines On 300 mm Technology - March 24, 2003
• Xilinx Completes Major Expansion and Announces Establishment of New European Headquarters In Dublin - March 4, 2003
• Xilinx Expands Portfolio of Services To Provide Complete Programmable Systems Design Solution - February 3, 2003
• Xilinx Ranks #4 in Fortune Magazine's Annual List of "100 Best Companies to Work For" - January 9, 2003

Product Announcements - 2003

December

• Xilinx Provides Unprecedented System Integration With New DUC And Enhanced FEC DSP Cores - December 24, 2003
• Xilinx Named 2003 Impact Supplier Of The Year By Lucent Technologies - December 23, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Successful Interoperability Between Xilinx And IBM HIgh Speed Serdes Technology - December 22, 2003
• Xilinx Enables Next Generation Metro Area Networks By Delivering Ethernet Over Sonet/SDH Solutions - December 17, 2003
• Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Are 38% Faster Than Competitive Offerings Using ISE 6.1I Design Tools - December 17, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers World's First FPGA-Based DSP Software Tool With JTAG Interface - Expands Customer Access To XtremeDSP Solution
  - December 15, 2003
• Xilinx And Intelliga Announce Low Cost Automotive Lin Bus Solution Using Spartan-3 FPGAs - December 11, 2003
• Napatech And Xilinx Announce World's First 10 Gbps Programmable Ethernet Adapter - December 10, 2003
• Xilinx Spartan-3 Devices Enable High Performance DSP Functions At Breakthrough Low Cost Price Points - December 10, 2003
• Xilinx Unveils Revolutionary FPGA Architecture, Enables
  Next-Generation Platform FPGAs - December 8, 2003

November

• Avent And Xilinx Deliver Low-Cost Serial I/O Design Kit For Industry-Leading Virtex-II Pro FPGAs - November 25, 2003
• RTOS Industry Leaders Recognize Virtex-II Pro PowerPC And MicroBlaze As Leading FPGA Processing Solutions
  - November 25, 2003
• QNX Enables Easier End Product Differetiation For High Reliability Applications Using Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs - November 18, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers Virtex-II Pro X FPGAs - World's Most Capable High-Speed Serial Transceiver Solution - November 17, 2003
• Xilinx Announces RocketLabs in 15 Worldwide Locations
  - November 17, 2003
• Mentor Graphics Delivers First Totally Integrated PCB Design and Signal Integrity Solution for Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X FPGAs
  - November 17, 2003
• Insight Memec Ships Entry-Level Serial I/O Design Kit For Virtex-II Pro - Industry's Most Widely Used FPGA For High-Speed Serial Design - November 12, 2003
• Xilinx Spartan Series Is World's Most Popular Low Cost FPGA With A Record Six Million Devices Shipped In A Single Quarter
  - November 11, 2003
• Xilinx Reports FPGA Industry Record Shipments Of Multi-Gigabit Transceivers - November 10, 2003
• Xilinx Aurora Serial I/O Open Protocol Tops 1000 Licensees - FPGA Industry's Most Widely Adopted 3.125 Gbps Solution
  - November 6, 2003
• Xilinx Chips Selected As Reconfigurable Computing Engine In Octigabay 12K - November 3, 2003

October

• Xilinx Delivers World's Lowest Cost FPGA-based Embedded Processor For Less Than 75 Cents - October 29, 2003
• Xilinx Releases Free Virtex-II Pro UltraController Design To Maximize Device Utilization And Accelerate System Design - October 27, 2003
• Mercury Computer Systems and Xilinx Unveil New Software Radio Technology for Real-World Deployed Applications - October 14, 2003
• Xilinx Expands Low Cost Leadership With Next Generation Free WebPack 6.1i Design Solution - October 13, 2003
• Xilinx Ships Four Spartan-3 Family Members Through Flawless 90nm Manufacturing Execution - October 6, 2003
• At 1 Million Gates For Under $12* Xilinx 90nm Spartan-3 Devices Are The World's Lowest-Priced FPGAs - October 6, 2003

September

• Celoxica and Xilinx Deliver Next Generation System Design Tools for Virtex-II Pro Power PC and MicroBlaze Users - September 29, 2003
• Xilinx Technology Drives Performance in BMW Williams Formula One Race Car at 2003 Grand Prix - September 26, 2003
• Xilinx FPGAS Flying Aboard Optus Communications Satellite - September 25, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Immediate Availability Of Next Generation PCI Express* Solution - September 16, 2003
• Xilinx And Amirix Systems Announce Hardware And IP Development Platform For IBM PowerPC In Virtex-II Pro Embedded Systems - September 16, 2003
• Xilinx CoolRunner-II Chips Enable Life-Saving Rescue Systems - September 16, 2003
• Next-Generation Virtex Family From Xilinx To Top One Billion Transistor Mark - September 15, 2003
• Xilinx Extends High-End FPGA Leadership by Shipping World's Highest Capacity & Capability FPGA - September 15, 2003
• Xilinx Announces RocketPhy 10 Gbps XFP Design Kit
  - September 15, 2003
• Xilinx Radically Improves Embedded Design Productivity With Latest Embedded Development Kit V6.1i - September 15, 2003
• Xilinx-Enabled Products Featured At "Embedded In Action" Showcase - September 15, 2003
• Accelerated Technology and Xilinx Add Support for Industry Leading MicroBlaze Soft Processor Core with the Nucleus RTOS
  - September 15, 2003
• Corelis Announces JTAG Emulation Support for the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA PowerPC 405 Core - September 15, 2003
• Hier Design PlanAhead Software Provides Substantial Time-to-Market Advantage with Xilinx ISE 6.1i - September 9, 2003
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Complete FPGA Design Flow Resulting in Increased Productivity with Xilinx Latest ISE Software
  - September 9, 2003
• Synplicity's FPGA Synthesis Solutions Offer Full Support For Xilinx ISE 6.1i Software - September 9, 2003
• Xilinx Programmable Chips Enable Revolutionary Self Regenerating Electronic Tissue - September, 8, 2003
• New Xilinx ISE 6.1i Software Demonstrates Major Leap In Capability & Performance Leadership With 250 New Features
  - September 8, 2003
• Xilinx Enhances Serial Digital Video Solutions With New Multi-Rate SDI And HD-SDI Interface - September 2, 2003

August

• PW03 Workshops Highlight Programmable DSPs And FPGAs As Complementary Technologies - August 21, 2003
• Xilinx Virtex Series Reaches Two Billion Revenue Milestone
  - August 20, 2003
• Xilinx Enables Reconfigurable Computing With Free JBits Software For Use With Virtex-II FPGAS - August 5, 2003

July

• New Xilinx DSP Cores Provide Low Cost, Scalable Multi-Channel Solutions For Wireless & Cable Modem Infrastructure - July 30, 2003
• Cypress And Xilinx Accelerate Deployment Of Next-Generation Data Over Sonet/SHD Solutions For Metro Area Network Applications
  - July 30, 2003
• Xilinx And STMicroelectronics Combine FPGA And Memory Expertise To Deliver Platform Flash Solution - July 29, 2003
• Xilinx FPGAs Aboard Mars 2003 Exploration Mission - July 21, 2003
• Mentor Graphics Enhances HyperLynx Signal Integrity Analysis Tools For Multi-Gigabit Speeds - July 7, 2003
• Mentor Graphics RocketIO Design Kit For HyperLynx Simplifies Simulations Of Xilinx Multi-Gigabit Designs - July 7, 2003
• Xilinx Ships Over 10 Million Virtex Devices - July 7, 2003
• Xilinx Announces First Reconfigurable End-To-End CAN Solutions For The Automotive Market - July 7, 2003
• Spirent Communications Leverages Xilinx Silicon, IP And Services To Introduce First Dual-Media Gigabit Ethernet Test System
  - July 2, 2003
• Xilinx Provides Proven XAUI Solution For 10 Gigabit Ethernet Applications - July 1, 2003
• Packlight Networks Utilizes High-Performance Xilinx Platform FPGAs For Optical Transport - July 1, 2003

June

• Xilinx Spartanâ„¢-3 FPGAs Lower in Cost Than FPGA-to-ASIC Conversions - June 24, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers Millionth Virtex-II FPGA Into Customer Hands, Garnering Over 80% Market Segment Share - June 23, 2003
• Insight Memec, Impact Memec and Memec Design Introduce Spartan-3 Development Kit - June 17, 2003
• Xilinx RocketPHY Demonstrates 10 Gbps Interoperability At Supercomm - June 17, 2003
• Xilinx Chips Selected For Latest 3G Wireless Test Platform From Agilent Technologies - June 9, 2003
• GDA Technologies And Xilinx Co-develop Industry's First Hyper-Transport Compatibility Test Platform - June 2, 2003
• Xilinx And Samsung Team To Develop Adaptable Metro Edge Network Solution - June 2, 2003

May

• BMW Williams F1 Chooses Xilinx For Mission-Critical Vehicle Control Module (VCM) - May 30, 2003
• Celoxica Extends C-based Design Support To New Xilinx 90nm Spartan-3 FPGAs - May 19, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers 10 Gbps Transceivers With New RocketPHY Family - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx Extends Virtex-II Pro Product Line With 10 Gbps Serial Transceivers - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx Ships Interface Solutions For FPGA Industry's First 10 Gbps Physical Layer Transceiver Family - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx And Ignis Optics Demonstrate Interoperability With RocketPHY 10 Gbps SERDES And XFP Optical Transceiver - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx And Nallatech Deliver Industry's First PCI Express Design Kit - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx And Paxonet Announce World's First Sonet STS-192 Jitter-Compliant GFP Solution - May 6, 2003
• Xilinx Deploys Synopsys HSPICE For Breakthrough 10 Gbps Serial I/O Circuit Simulation - May 6, 2003

April

• Xilinx Announces Industry's Lowest Cost Configuration Solution
  - April 29, 2003
• Hier Design Supports Xilinx's New 90nm Spartan-3 FPGAs With Silicon Virtual Prototyping Solution To Be Introduced In July
  - April 28, 2003
• Nauticus Networks Selects Xilinx Platform FPGAs For Rapid Deployment Of New Intelligent Data Center - April 28, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Industry's First Complete DDR400 SDRAM Interface Solution For FPGAs - April 24, 2003
• Xilinx Extends Programmable Systems Leadership With New Embedded Development Kit And MicroBlaze Soft Processor
  - April 23, 2003
• Xilinx Teams Up With Nohau And Micrium to Offer Designers New Capabilities For MicroBlaze Based Embedded Systems
  - April 23, 2003
• Xilinx, Interativa, And Birger Engineering Collaborate To Deliver 68 Billion Color LED Display System - April 23, 2003
• Xilinx Selected As Finalist For Best Of Show Award At Embedded Systems Conference - April 22, 2003
• Cadence Optimizes Design Chain For Xilinx Customers Using The 90nm Spartan-3 FPGA Platform - April 21, 2003
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Comprehensive Design Support For Xilinx 90nm Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs - April 16, 2003
• Xilinx Chips Bring Fans Closer To The Action At Sporting Events Worldwide - April 16, 2003
• Altium Supports Xilinx's New Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs
  - April 16, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Complete Third-Party Alliancecore IP Support For New Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs - April 15, 2003
• Cast Embraces New Xilinx Spartan-3 Platform As Low-Cost FPGA IP Alternative To ASICS - April 15, 2003
• Eureka Technology Ports IP Cores To New Xilinx Spartan-3 Platform To Meet Demand For High Volume Designs - April 15, 2003
• Helion Technology Supports New Xilinx Spartan-3 Platform With Encryption IP To Penetrate High Volume Security Applications
  - April 15, 2003
• Insight Memec, Impact Memec, and Memec Design Team To Introduce IP and Services Support For New Xilinx Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs - April 15, 2003
• PinPoint Solutions Harnesses New Xilinx Spartan-3 Platform For Lowest-Cost Video IP Programmable Solutions - April 15, 2003
• Synplicity Announces Optimized Software Support For Xilinx's New 90nm Spartan-3 FPGAs - April 15, 2003
• Xylon Rolls Out IP Support For Xilinx's New Spartan-3 Platform - The World's Lowest-Cost FPGA - April 15, 2003
• New 90nm Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs Reshape Semiconductor Landscape - April 14, 2003
• Xilinx Expands eSP Portal For New Applications Addressed By New Spartan-3 Platform - April 14, 2003
• Xilinx And Cook Technologies Announce Serial Digital Video (SDV) Board - April 4, 2003
• Xilinx Streamlines Software Defined Radio And Digital Communications Design With New IP Library - April 2, 2003

March

• Xilinx Announces Next Generation Free ISE WebPack 5.2i Design Tool For Reduced Design Costs and Increased Productivity
  - March 26, 2003
• Vitesse and Xilinx Demonstrate OIF Interoperability Enabling 10Gbps Ethernet at OFC 2003 - March 24, 2003
• MaXXan Chooses World's Most Powerful FPGAs From Xilinx For Next-Generation Intelligent Storage Switch Platform - March 24, 2003
• The MathWorks and Xilinx to Address Design Engineering Community At Inaugural Signal Processing Event - March 19, 2003
• Xilinx Slashes Simulation Time From Months To Minutes With Next Generation Software Platform For High-Speed DSP Design
  - March 17, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Programmable World 2003 With IBM, Agilent, Cadence and 26 Other Industry Leaders - March 12, 2003
• Xilinx Significantly Reduces Design and Device Costs With Enhanced ISE 5.2i Software - March 3, 2003

February

• Xilinx Announces Breakthrough 10 Gbps Technology
  - February 24, 2003
• • Editor Presentation (pdf)
• Xilinx and Jungo Software Technologies Accelerate PCI Design Cycle and Reduce System Costs - February 19, 2003
• Xilinx and Cadence Solution Speeds Multi-Gigabit Designs For System Companies - February 17, 2003
• Xilinx Simplifies Wireless Networking Design With New eSP Web Portal - February 17, 2003
• Xilinx Appoints CG-CoreEl's "Sandeepani" School of VLSI Design as its Authorized Training Provider in India - February 13, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-II Pro FPGA Development Board
  - February 12, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers Hypertransport Lite Reference Design Using Broadcom Silicon - February 5, 2003
• Xilinx Chips Enable World's First "On The Fly" Reconfigurable Satellite - February 4, 2003

January

• Xilinx Ultra-Small CPLD Packaging Enables High Performance Sketchpad DSP Boards For 3DSP - January 29, 2003
• Xilinx and Tarari Announce a Complete Programmable Content Processing Acceleration Platform - January 28, 2003
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First 133MHz PCI-X 2.0 Core Mode 1
  - January 27, 2003
• Xilinx Announces New Price Point For Virtex-II Pro FPGAS Fueled By Move To 300 MM Volume Production - January 27, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-II Multimedia Development Board
  - January 22, 2003
• Xilinx and International Rectifier Deliver High Performance Solution for Motor Control - January 21, 2003
• Xilinx Delivers New Adaptive I/O Solution to Reduce Serial Design Cost and Improve Time to Market - January 15, 2003
• Marconi Choose Xilinx for Next-Generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Products - January 15, 2003
• Xilinx Programmable Chips Enable Latest MP3 Digital Audio Computer from Digital Innovations - January 9, 2003
• Xilinx and Amphony Team to Deliver World's First Digital Wireless RF Headphones with CD Quality Sound - January 9, 2003
• Xilinx Enables Gibson Guitar's Best of Show Award at Annual Consumer Electronics Show - January 9, 2003
• Xilinx Announces Roadmap for Virtex-II Pro EasyPath
  - January 8, 2003
• Xilinx Low Cost Spartan FPGAs Enable MEI's High-Performance SynqNet Motion Control Network - January 7, 2003

Product Announcements - 2002

December

• World's Leading Computer Companies Join New Xilinx AllianceDesktop Partner Program - December 23, 2002
• Xilinx Chips Provide Safe Holiday Highways With $49 Stocking Stuffer - December 23, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Cost Optimized SPI-4.2 "Lite" IP Core
  - December 19, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-II Pro FPGA Die Size Advantage
  - December 18, 2002
• Free Xilinx Picoblaze Microcontroller Expands Support to Virtex-II Series FPGAs and CoolRunner-II CPLDs - December 18, 2002
• MontaVista and Xilinx Announce Availability of Embedded Linux Platform for ML300 Development Board for Virtex-II Pro
  - December 16, 2002
• Xilinx Design Services Helps Architect Industry's First 10 GBPS Fibre Channel Technology - December 6, 2002
• Tarari Adopts Xilinx Technology for Reconfigurable Content Processor Solutions - December 3, 2002