BOPS Appoints Victor Young as Its CFO

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----May 17, 2000--BOPS®, Inc., a leading programmable DSP core provider, today announced that the company has appointed Victor Young as its first CFO. Young reports to Carl Schlachte, who recently joined BOPS as Chairman and CEO from ARM.
BOPS develops and licenses high performance DSP cores as well as providing top tier OEMs with hardware, software tools and engineering support to quickly and efficiently design Internet, multimedia and communications products using BOPS ManArray(TM) DSP core family.

Carl Schlachte, BOPS CEO, noted, ``Victor Young joins us with a wealth of experience in both public and private companies, having served for 16 years as a partner at Coopers and Lybrand before helping several silicon valley companies go public. We're very excited to have someone with his extensive financial background join our executive team.''

Prior to joining BOPS, Victor Young was a senior business assurance partner with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (formerly Coopers & Lybrand) based in San Francisco. His served 5 years in Asia where he established the then Coopers practice in Taiwan, the Republic of China, and served as U.S. Liaison partner for Southeast Asia. He was a managing partner and chief financial officer for the W I Harper Group in San Francisco, a venture capital firm. His experience covers engineering, manufacturing and distribution, and high technology. In his professional and consulting capacity, Young has worked with numerous software and Internet companies, assisting many to successful initial public offerings.

About BOPS, Inc.
BOPS, Inc. is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that develops and licenses high performance, scalable and reusable DSP cores and compiler and software tool products for high-volume, SOC-based applications for the Internet, multimedia and wireless communications markets.

ManArray DSP cores accelerate a SOC manufacturers' time from product concept to high-volume shipment. The ManArray technology has been designed to integrate with MIPS® and ARM(TM) processor-based SOCs.

Notes to editors:
           BOPS: Billions of Operations per Second
           DSP: Digital Signal Processor
           SOC: Systems-on-Chip

BOPS is a registered trademark of BOPS, Inc. and ManArray is a trademark of BOPS, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Victor Young can be reached at 650/254-2802.

Contact:
     BOPS, Inc.
     Renee Anderson, 650/254-2810
     renee@bops.com
      or
     Georgia Marszalek, 650/345-7477 (BOPS PR Counsel)
     georgia@valleypr.com