1. An integrated circuit chip comprising programmable intelligent search memory for content search wherein said programmable intelligent search memory performs regular expression based search and comprises a plurality of programmable search engines to perform search using a plurality of regular expressions. said plurality of regular expressions converted into a plurality of finite state automata to program said plurality of programmable search engines, said programmable intelligent search memory for content search using said plurality of regular expressions, said plurality of regular expressions comprising a plurality of symbols or characters, said plurality of finite state automata comprising a plurality of states, said plurality of states derived from said plurality of symbols or characters of said plurality of regular expressions, said content comprising one or more symbols provided as input to said programmable intelligent search memory for content search, said programmable search engine to search at least one of said regular expressions converted to at least one finite state automaton and comprising at least one of each of: a. a symbol memory circuit to store said plurality of symbols; b. a symbol evaluation circuit coupled to said symbol memory circuit to evaluate match of said plurality of symbols stored in said symbol memory circuit with said one or more symbols of said content; c. a state dependent vector memory circuit to store state transition controls for said one of said plurality of finite state automata; d. a current state vector memory circuit to store said plurality of states; and e. a state transition circuit coupled to said symbol evaluation circuit, current state vector memory circuit and said state dependent vector memory circuit to perform state transition from one or more first states to one or more second states of said plurality of states of said one of said plurality of finite state automata.