Wintegra announces sampling of WinPath3 processor family

AUSTIN, USA: Strengthening their processor offering, Wintegra announced today that their third generation processor family, the WinPath3, is now sampling to selected customers around the world. This new processor significantly extends Wintegra’s reach in the access infrastructure.

It offers performance 5 times that of the previous generation of Wintegra processors and provides the foundation for market leading products in Wireless Base Stations, Mobile Backhaul including IP and microwave, and broadband access.

Wintegra also has the broadest set of production quality software and extensive collateral and design assistance enabling rapid time to market for WinPath based infrastructure solutions.

“Wintegra, a perennial leader in the access processor market, has significantly broadened its product offering with the WinPath3 family,” said Bob Wheeler, Senior Analyst at The Linley Group. “With its strong software offering, and now with a 5 times increase in performance over its previous generation devices, Wintegra has compelling and scalable solutions for Mobile Backhaul, LTE Base Stations, and Carrier Ethernet.”

“The availability of WinPath3 is a significant milestone for Wintegra," said Kobi Ben-Zvi, Founder and Wintegra CEO. “Our vision to become the market leader in access infrastructure processing plus our continuous investment in protocol processing software and high performance, low power family of processors has resulted in a wide range of system solutions unmatched in our marketplace.”

WinPath3 devices are sampling now to major Tier 1 customers, with production qualified devices to be available in 2Q 2010. WinPath3 based Development Systems are available as well.