Silicon Hive Opens Offices in Silicon Valley

New office in Milpitas California provides close in applications support to customers and partners with added sales and marketing presence

Eindhoven, the Netherlands -- Oct 5, 2006 -- Silicon Hive announced today that the company has opened an office in Milpitas California (Silicon Valley). The new office will support the needs of a growing number of customers and partners in California and the rest of North America. The office is run by Dr. Geoff Burns, Vice President of Product Management who is a member of Silicon Hive’s executive management team.

Local customers and partners can now get technical and commercial support. Atul Sinha Silicon Hive’s CEO said, “ The opening of this new office demonstrates our commitment to serving our customers in California and North America. Further under Dr. Burns leadership we intend to enhance our capability to provide local support for our products. Our customers and partners can now interact more closely in our growing vibrant ecosystem. The Silicon Valley office also aids our ambitions to partner with complimentary companies world-wide.”

To celebrate the opening, Silicon Hive is sponsoring the cocktail reception at the up coming Fabless Semiconductor Association’s Suppliers Expo and Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose California on October 11th. Silicon Hive executives and senior personnel will be available all day during the event and in booth # 213 and at the cocktail reception for discussions.

The company’s new office is located at 540 Alder Drive, Milpitas, California, 95035, Telephone: +1 408 468 3171.

About Silicon Hive

Silicon Hive is a worldwide supplier of semiconductor intellectual property. The company designs, builds and licenses application-specific solutions for communications and media processing; tuned processor cores; and program development tools with application libraries. Silicon Hive products enable semiconductor companies to make fully programmable System-on-Chips (SoCs). The patented technology has been matured over a 10-year period at Philips Research. Silicon Hive is a fully owned business of Royal Philips Electronics. More information on Silicon Hive is available at www.siliconhive.com