Corporate Profile for Fast-Chip, Incorporated, dated Oct. 20, 2000

Business Wire, Oct 20, 2000

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Published Date:   Oct. 20, 2000

Company Name:     Fast-Chip, Incorporated

Address:          950 Kifer Road
                  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
                  USA

Main Telephone
 Number:          408/523-8050

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.fast-chip.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Gregg Cook

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Bill Naiditch

Investor Relations
 Contact:         Craig Chidlow
 Business number: 408/523-8060
 E-mail address:  craig_chidlow@fast-chip.com

Public Relations
 Contact:         Mary Jo Faulkner
 Business number: 408/523-8058
 E-mail address:  maryjo_faulkner@fast-chip.com

Industry:         Semiconductor

Company description: Fast-Chip, Inc. is a venture capital backed Internet infrastructure semiconductor company founded in August, 1998 that designs, markets and sells network coprocessor solutions for next generation intelligent networking equipment products.

Fast-Chip's first product, named the PolicyEdge, targets up to OC-192 data rates. Our products can be used to create a wide range of extremely intelligent networking products used at the edges of the network including bandwidth managers, fast-firewalls, VPN (virtual private network) devices, access service aggregation devices, core switch routers, access routers, and devices used for load balancing and switching at the front-end of server farms used for website hosting.