LONDON — Raza Microelectronics Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.), a fabless startup founded by Atiq Raza, formerly president and chief operating officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has launched two processor chips aimed at networking applications according to online reports. Raza serves the company as chairman and chief executive officer.

These two products are: the XLR Thread Processor, comprising 333 million transistors implemented in a 90-nm CMOS manufacturing process, and the Intelligent Access Processor, which is an arrangement of 180 million transistors implemented in a 130-nm CMOS technology, according to the Converge website.

The thread processor is intended for network appliances, such as advanced firewalls, IDS, VPN boxes, intelligent switches and other edge applications and incorporates eight MIPS64 CPU cores, which can run at up to 1.5-GHz and each handle four threads, the report said.

The Orion chip is intended to serve as a data packet processor, a data traffic manager, and a SONET/SDH processor, the report said.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. serves as the foundry for Raza Microelectronics and both processors are sampling, the report said.