SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (Nasdaq: AMCC) announced today its participation in the following upcoming events with the financial community. AMCC's participation at each of these events will be webcast. Interested parties can access the webcast by visiting the AMCC web site at http://www.amcc.com and selecting investor information. AMCC also maintains a current listing of its scheduled investor conferences on the investor information section of its web site.

     *  SG Cowen Fall Technology Conference
        September 8, 2004

     *  CIBC World Markets European Semiconductor Conference
        September 21-23, 2004

     *  Piper Jaffray West Coast Hardware Conference
        October 27, 2004

    AMCC Overview

AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the transport, switching, routing and storage of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver communications silicon and software for global wide area networks (WAN), Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for storage area networks (SAN), and hardware and software solutions for high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

SOURCE Applied Micro Circuits Corporation

/CONTACT: Debra Hart, Director, Investor Relations of Applied Micro
Circuits Corporation, +1-858-535-4217, dhart@amcc.com/
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