Open-Silicon Signs 150th ASIC Design Win

Develop-to-spec ICs increase Open-Silicon’s portfolio

MILPITAS, Calif. - November 17, 2009: Open-Silicon, Inc., a leading ASIC design and semiconductor manufacturing company, announced today that it has reached the 150th design win milestone. The company has experienced an increasing demand for its develop-to-spec IC services over the past two years, and seen public companies increasingly embrace the company’s OpenMODEL™. In addition, Open-Silicon has opened an office in Japan to better address the company’s growing global demand.

Open-Silicon’s recent design wins have come from customers worldwide, including Canada, China, Europe, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. The company’s strong technology leadership with its MAX Technologies product line and innovative OpenMODEL has earned Open-Silicon global design wins across a wide range of industry segments—from wireless and mobile to storage and networking, security, and telecommunications. Also, increasingly semiconductor companies are contracting with Open-Silicon to take a specification and develop complete semiconductor products. For example, earlier this year Open-Silicon announced that the company successfully took NXP Semiconductor’s media processor from specification through production, including software, within 13 months.

Open-Silicon attributes much of its success to the OpenMODEL, the semiconductor industry's first spec-to-silicon SoC development solution based on a revolutionary business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, and low-risk alternative to traditional models for complex semiconductor design and development. The OpenMODEL offers the right choice of foundry, IP, package and test, that fits perfectly the need for each ASIC, based on performance, power, cost, schedule, application and market.

"The advent of Open-Silicon’s 150th design win is a true testament to our ability to deliver the most cost-effective, predictable and reliable custom SoC solutions,” said Dave Krishna, vice president worldwide sales at Open-Silicon. "The fact that customers of all sizes, market segments and geographies are seeking this flexibility validates that we have the right processes in place and have built the right relationships to ensure success for a large variety of customers.”

About Open-Silicon, Inc.

Open-Silicon, Inc. is a leading semiconductor company focused on setting new standards for predictable, reliable and flexible custom IC development. Open-Silicon provides leading-edge SoC and ASIC design, proven open market IP integration and high-quality silicon manufacturing services to customers worldwide. Through the MAX Technologies, Open-Silicon continues to introduce technology advantages in the areas of low-power design, high-performance processor implementation, variability management, and low-cost test that help customers increase their market success. For more information, visit Open-Silicon’s website at www.open-silicon.com or call 408-240-5700.