Virage Logic to Acquire In-Chip Systems

Addition of SoC Logic Platforms to Company's Embedded Memory SIP Portfolio Will Extend Market Leadership Position

Fremont, CA - May  7,  2002, Virage Logic Corp. (Nasdaq:VIRL), a global leader in embedded memory, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire In-Chip Systems, Inc., a privately held provider of logic platforms for system-on-chip (SoC) applications. The addition of In-Chip's technology to Virage Logic's family of SoC products will strengthen the company's leading position in the semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) market, especially for high-volume consumer applications. Valued at less than $20 million, the acquisition purchase price is to be paid for in stock and cash, with some payments to be made over time. No material impact on the combined company's near-term financial outlook is expected. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close later this month.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based In-Chip's solutions are used by major blue-chip consumer products manufacturers such as Agere, Epson, Fujitsu, Motorola, NEC, Sony, Oki, Toshiba, and Yamaha to cost-effectively improve their time-to-market and increase chip yields in the development of sophisticated high-volume SoCs for a variety of applications, including consumer products such as cell phones and two of the leading video game systems. In-Chip's technology is optimized for deep sub-micron applications with a focus on lower overall power consumption and higher performance. In addition, In-Chip's highly adaptable chip-level logic platforms enable customers to create smaller chip die sizes while reducing mask costs.

"The acquisition of In-Chip enables Virage Logic to extend its portfolio of advanced semiconductor intellectual property by offering customers our embedded memory technology along with complementary SoC logic platforms," said Adam Kablanian, Virage Logic's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "As a result, our customers will now have the ability to source integrated SoC embedded memory and logic platform technology from a single vendor, furthering their design reliability while increasing their production yields."

Profitable in all but one fiscal year since its inception in 1996, In-Chip has 15 employees, all skilled chip design engineers representing an aggregate of over 200 years of chip design experience, who will join Virage Logic's research and design group, the world's largest embedded memory design team. In-Chip is known for its patented NXT cell architecture and holds five patents with another three pending and several others in progress covering its next-generation logic platform technology.

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