Kaben Wireless Silicon partners with Jazz Semiconductor; Qualifies as Silicon-proven RF IP provider

Ottawa, Ontario - October 26, 2007. Kaben Wireless Silicon Inc, one of the industry's leading wireless semiconductor design companies, announced today that it has joined Jazz Semiconductor IP Partners program and has been qualified as a Silicon-Proven IP provider.

The Application-Specific IP Providers program from JAZZ is intended to help its foundry customers speed time to market, reduce development risk, lower development costs, and improve return on investment by qualifying semiconductor IP providers and design partners that have pre-tested and validated their methodologies for compatibility with Jazz Semiconductor.

“Customer validation of our high performance frequency synthesizer and related IP in JAZZ process technology provides a proof of quality and reliability of our products. Accessing these ready-to-use IP solutions in JAZZ processes can help customers reduce their development costs and time to market for their new products,” said Tom Riley, President, Kaben Wireless Silicon.

Formalizing an IP partnership with Jazz Semiconductor will facilitate Jazz's foundry customers access to KABEN's highly specialized IP and expertise in frequency synthesizers, advanced filtering, RF and mixed-signal designs.

ABOUT KABEN

Founded in 2000, Kaben is a developer of wireless semiconductors, specializing in programmable filters and frequency synthesizers for wireless applications such as integrated radios, tuners and cell phones. The company develops and licenses complete designs and mixed-signal building blocks that are key to creating advanced SoC products. We deliver high-performance, proven IP to manufacturers in the wireless communications market, that significantly reduces risk, cost, and time to market. Kaben's IP product offering includes Frequency Synthesizers, Sampling IF Filters, FM Tuners, D/A Converters, and Programmable Clock Generators. For more information, please visit our website at www.kabenwireless.com.