SUNNYVALE, Calif., USA, and SHENZHEN, China – January 30, 2009 — ZTE Corporation (ZTE), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that PLX Technology (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leading global supplier of feature-rich PCI Express® (PCIe®) switch and bridge silicon, has been chosen as the key supplier of PCIe interconnect devices for ZTE’s current and next-generation system platforms. ZTE will use PLX’s PCIe devices and services to improve performance and flexibility within the company’s entire system platforms and throughout a broad variety of different PCIe end-points.
ZTE chose the PLX PCIe family for its outstanding high-performance and unique features, including Dual Cast™, Read Pacing™, integrated direct memory access (DMA) engines, non-transparent (NT) ports, spread spectrum clock (SSC) isolation, low power, and small device footprint – all very important aspects that help ZTE to in-turn offer superior products to its telecommunications and networking worldwide customers.
“PLX’s PCIe switch and bridge products are the best solutions for ZTE’s current and next-generation system platforms,” said Ms. Hua Yu, hardware leader, Design and Development Dept., Central Research Institute, ZTE. “PLX is the industry leader in the PCI/PCIe technology field whose products provide several excellent features that we take advantage of, such as NT, SSC, Dual Cast and DMA. ZTE always strives to provide our customers with the best possible products and solutions and it is very important to have partners like PLX with superior technology and technical support. We look forward to continuing business with PLX on our newest generation system platform.”
“ZTE is a very important customer to PLX and we will continue our push to meet the high standards of quality, availability and selection that it demands,” said David Raun, vice president of marketing and business development, PLX. “Our goal is to remain the number-one supplier of high-performance PCIe interconnect devices and technical services, while providing growth in technology choice through PLX’s leadership and expertise. We thank ZTE for being the company’s top choice in PCI Express switching and bridging solutions.”
PLX offers more than 30 PCIe switch and bridge devices with over three million devices already shipped. The entire PLX PCIe Gen 2 family is fully compliant to the PCI-SIG® PCIe 2.0 specification and published on the exclusive PCIe architecture integrators list, which qualifies silicon and other providers through rigorous compliance testing.
About ZTE
ZTE is a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete in the world – covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, service and terminals markets. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to over 500 operators in more than 140 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape the future of the world’s communications. ZTE commits around 10% of annual turnover to research and development and takes a leading role in a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards. It is the fastest growing telecoms equipment company in the world, and is China’s only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. In the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Readers’ Survey 2007, ZTE was among the ‘Top 10 Most Admired Companies in China’, the only company that was included in the Top 10 list representing the telecom industry. ZTE was awarded the “Most Promising Vendor of the Year” by Frost & Sullivan in its 2007 Asia Pacific ICT Awards, and was reported as the fastest growing telecom equipment and solutions provider among the major telecom vendors worldwide by IDC in 2007. ZTE was included in BusinessWeek’s 2006 ranking of China’s Top 20 Brands. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.
About PLX
PLX Technology, Inc. (www.plxtech.com), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA, is a leading global supplier of high-performance, feature-rich, system-interconnect semiconductors, SoC and software solutions for the communications, storage, server, compute, embedded-control, and consumer markets. The Company provides a competitive advantage through an integrated combination of experience, innovative silicon, powerful design tools, and synergetic global partnerships. These inventive PLX solutions are based on established technologies including PCI Express, USB, SATA, Ethernet, and FireWire that enable our customers to develop equipment with industry-leading performance, scalability, security, and reliability, and bring their designs to market faster.
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