ARM Opens e-Commerce Design Center

CAMBRIDGE, UK - July 11, 2000 - ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced it has opened an e-Commerce Design Center in Sophia Antipolis, France. This new design center was created through ARM's recent acquisition of the business and assets of EuroMIPS Systems SAS, a 14-person design services house. The aim of this center is to develop the secure implementation of traditional ARM offerings, built around its 32-bit technologies.

"As e-Commerce continues to grow in popularity and the need for secure transactions over the Internet and through mobile devices increases, both hardware and software providers will have to develop and produce a new level of high-security solutions," said Warren East, vice president of Operations for ARM. "The acquisition of EuroMIPS and the opening of our new e-Commerce design center will enable ARM to continue providing our partners with leading-edge solutions for a wide range of security sensitive applications."

EuroMIPS has worked extensively with ARM over the past year, providing system-on-chip (SoC) solutions to OEMs for a wide range of ARM Powered[tm] applications including smart cards, wireless and automotive solutions. In particular, EuroMIPS has worked with ARM and Gemplus on the CASCADE project, to develop a Java-technology-enabled smart card. This demonstrates EuroMIPS' capability to provide ARM powered security solutions with a new level of performance.

"France is home to a strong community of smartcard and eCommerce solutions providers and this acquisition further strengthens ARM's commitment to this market segment," said Pascal Peru, managing director, EuroMIPS Systems. "The combination of EuroMIPS' expertise and engineering talent and ARM's industry-leading technology will provide system developers with leading-edge solutions for these fast-growing, high-volume applications."

About ARM

ARM, a leading intellectual property (IP) provider, licenses high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com.

About Gemplus

Gemplus (www.gemplus.com) is the world's number one provider of smart card-based solutions for security, wireless and e-business applications. Offering consultancy services, design, software, hardware, personalization and full implementation, Gemplus works with its customers around the world to deliver comprehensive, integrated and tailor-made smart card-based systems.

Founded in 1988, Gemplus had sales of over Euro 767M ($US 817 millions) in 1999, and employs almost 6,300 people in 17 manufacturing facilities, 7 R&D centres and 44 sales and marketing offices located in more than 37 countries.

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