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2004 FSA Suppliers Expo Exhibitor Profiles.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- 2004 FSA Suppliers Expo takes place Oct. 4-7, 2004, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. For in-depth information about the event visit http://www.fsa.org/suppliers_expo/.

Below are profiles from 2004 FSA Suppliers Expo exhibitors; breaking news releases and announcements are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference and event news resource.

Company: 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
Booth/Stand: 429
Media Contacts:  S.C. Sia; +60.82.354.888;  scsia@1si.com or
Barbara Kalkis; 408.996.9975; kkalkis@compuserve.com
Investor Relations Contact: Stephen Chin
Phone: +60.82.354.888
E-mail: investorrelations@1si.com
Company URL: http://www.1si.com
Press Area URL: http://www.1si.com/news-prelease.html

Product Description: 1st Silicon (1Si) offers 0.25micron-m,
0.18micron-m and 0.15micron-m logic and mixed-signal technology as
well as embedded non-volatile memories, CMOS color image sensors, high
voltage and CCD processes. These technologies are vital in computer
multimedia, Internet-enabled applications, DSP-based products,
micro-controllers, LCD controllers / drivers, automotive and smart
card applications. The 0.25micron-m embedded flash process is
available now. The 0.15micron-m process will be available in Q1 2005.

Company Description: 1Si offers volume semiconductor production in
a world-class 200mm fabrication facility spanning 126,000 ft2. At full
ramp-up capacity, the facility can handle more than 45,000 wafers per
month. Its customers include integrated device manufacturers and
fabless semiconductor companies from US, Japan, and Asia. 1Si has its
headquarters in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, and a US registered
Subsidiary Corporation located in San Jose, California.

Company: Accelicon Technologies, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 532
Media Contact:  Xiaolan Wu
Investor Relations Contact:  Tim Smith
Phone:  (408) 725-7176
E-mail:  xwu@accelicon.com
Company URL:  http://www.accelicon.com

Product description: Analog Virtual Prototyping (AVP) gives
circuit designers area estimation and floor-planning capability early
in the design cycle, allowing for important performance/cost/packaging
decisions. Model Quality Assurance (MQA) assesses the quality of
foundry-supplied models, and Model Builder Program (MBP) generates
SPICE models using data from tested silicon.

Company description: Accelicon Technologies, based in Cupertino
California, is an EDA company dedicated to providing world-class
solutions to analog, RF and mixed signal semiconductor companies.
Currently Accelicon provides the industry's first, and leading,
solution for Analog Virtual Prototyping, as well as a number of SPICE
analysis products addressing foundry model verification.

Company: AMI Semiconductor
Ticker Symbol: AMIS
Booth/Stand: 402
Media Contact: Tamera Drake
Investor Relations Contact: Jimmie Hutchens
Phone: 208-234-6890
E-mail: tamera_drake@amis.com
Company URL: http://www.amis.com
Press Area URL: http://www.amis.com/news/releases/

AMI Semiconductor is a leading, full service mixed-signal foundry
partner with exceptional development-to-production spans and
outstanding customer service. AMIS provides long-term process support,
specializing in mixed-signal CMOS processes including high-voltage
operation and customer-specific process installations. MPW access is
available through relationships with MOSIS and Europractice. Numerous
quality certifications highlight the company's ability to satisfy
customers' most demanding quality requirements.

Company: Analog Bits Inc.
Booth/Stand: 246
Media Contact: Mahesh Tirupattur
Phone: 650-314-0200
E-mail: mahesh@analogbits.com
Company URL: http://www.analogbits.com

Product description:

Following are some of the product families that we offer:

- Wide Range PLL's, Video Class PLL's- Pixel Clocks,
Spread-spectrum Clocks, Video Capture PLL's
- High speed DDR-DLL and Micro-Watt class Ultra-low power PLL's
- Multi-protocol Programmable SERDES
- Custom IO Buffers
- Processor Class Cache-SRAM's and Embedded TCAM's

Company description: Analog Bits Inc., specializes in designing
transistor level IP components fully customized for easy and reliable
integration into digital chips on standard CMOS processes. Our 200+
custom designs serve fabless companies, ASIC manufacturers, merchant
foundries and IDM's who demand the highest quality, maximum
performance, and optimum densities for their designs.

Company: ASE
Ticker Symbol: ASX
Booth/Stand: 428/430
Media Contact: Jennifer Yuen
Phone: 408 986 6519
E-mail: Jennifer.yuen@aseus.com
Company URL: http://www.aseglobal.com
Press Area URL: http://www.aseglobal.com/content/5-2-1.htm

Product description: The ASE Group is the largest independent
subcontract provider of  IC packaging and test services. An integral
link in the global electronics chain, with manufacturing bases
established worldwide, ASE currently maintains over 30,000 employees
to serve its international clientele, and is committed to acting as a
'virtual factory' for OEM customers.

Company description: A world-leading provider of semiconductor
back-end manufacturing services, the overall scope and depth of ASE
Group's manufacturing services enables it to offer its customers
complete semiconductor turnkey solutions -- including engineering
test, wafer probing, package design, substrate design and
manufacturing, testing, and shipping -- all conveniently integrated
into one comprehensive supply chain.

Company: Cadence Design Systems
Ticker Symbol:CDN
Booth: 542/544
Media Contract: Bruce Chan
Investor Relations Contact: Nikki Davis
Phone: 408-943-1234
Company URL:  http://www.cadence.com
Press Area URL:
http://www.cadence.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/index.aspx

Product Description: The Cadence Encounter low-power design flow
reduces power by as much as 40%. See a demonstration of this flow that
was developed in conjunction with Silicon Design Chain Partners ARM,
Artisan and TSMC. Find out how to manage dynamic and leakage power
using Encounter digital IC design platform.

Company Description: Cadence is the world's largest supplier of
electronic design technologies and engineering services. Cadence
products and services are used to accelerate and manage the design of
semiconductors, computer systems, networking equipment,
telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and other
electronics based products. The company is headquartered in San Jose,
California.

Company:  Cascade Microtech
Booth/Stand:  534
Media Contact: Ellen Payne
Phone: 503-601-1000
E-mail: Ellen_Payne@cmicro.com
Company URL: http://www.cascademicrotech.com
Press Area URL:
http://www.cmicro.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/pg.view/pID/23

Product description: Infinity Probe combines extremely low contact
resistance (typically less than 0.1 ohm on aluminum pads) with
unsurpassed RF measurement accuracy to give you highly reliable,
repeatable measurements, with low, stable contact resistance. Dual
version to 67GHz, single coaxial version to 110GHz, and waveguide
version to 220GHz are now available.

Company description: Cascade Microtech provides leading-edge
probing solutions to test complex semiconductors in wafer form in
design and production environments. Provides production probe cards,
analytical probes, and probe stations. Probe stations align wafers to
probe cards or probes to electrically connect test equipment to chips
on wafers, allowing advanced electrical measurements.

Company: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
Ticker Symbol: Nasdaq: CHRT and SGX-ST: Chartered
Booth/Stand: 410/412/414/416/418
Media Contact: Tiffany Sparks (tiffanys@charteredsemi.com)
Investor Relations Contact: Suresh Kumar (sureshk@charteredsemi.com)
Phone: (408) 941.1100
E-mail: info@charteredsemi.com
Company URL: http://www.charteredsemi.com

Product description: Chartered continually expands its portfolio
of process technologies to address customers' product and
time-to-market requirements. Its broad technology offerings include
logic, mixed signal, RF CMOS, BiCMOS, EEPROM and HVCMOS. At 90nm,
Chartered teamed with IBM to offer the industry's first cross-foundry
platform, providing GDSII design compatibility to enable true
multi-sourcing.

Company description: Chartered, one of the world's top three
dedicated semiconductor foundries, provides flexible and
cost-effective manufacturing solutions for customers, enabling the
convergence of communications, computing and consumer markets. In
Singapore, Chartered operates four fabrication facilities and has a
fifth fab, the company's first 300mm facility, which is expected to
begin pilot production by the end of 2004.

Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Ticker Symbol: (NYSE: CY)
Booth/Stand: 128
Phone: 408-943-2600
E-mail: questions@cypress.com
Company URL: http://www.cypress.com

Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC), a division of Cypress
Semiconductor Corporation, bridges the gap between a Lab to Fab by
offering an alternative strategy for taking a product from
proof-of-concept to manufacturing. SVTC offers customers opportunities
to develop and characterize their silicon-based technologies
cost-effectively, accelerating time-to-revenue through access to
Cypresss 65-nanometer state-of-the-art R&D fab in Silicon Valley and
its 20+ years of technology development and design experience.

Company: eInfochips, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 155
Media Contact: Donna Wilson, 510-795-6825
Phone: 408-496-1882
E-mail: info@einfochips.com
Company URL: http://www.einfochips.com
Press Area URL: http://www.einfochips.com/newsroom.html

eInfochips is a leading provider of ASIC design and verification
services. The spectrum of services extends from Specification to
Silicon with extensive experience on front-end design, HVL based
verification methodologies and physical design. The IP portfolio
includes IP on technologies like Fibre Channel, Serial ATA, SONET, SPI
4, OCP-IP.

eInfochips is a 200 engineer company based out of Santa Clara,
with an India design centre. It has delivered SoC and Embedded
solutions to a variety of customers, thus increasing their
cost-effectiveness and reducing their time-to-market. A partial list
of customers includes Broadcom, TI, LSI Logic, Cisco, Sun
Microsystems, Philips.

Company: ePAK International, Inc.
Booth/Stand:  347
Media Contact: Richard Brook
Phone: 512.231.8083
E-mail: richard.brook@epak.com
Company URL: http://www.epak.com

Product description: ePAK manufactures a complete line of products
for shipping wafers from 1" up to 300 mm. The Company also offers an
increasing number of Processing Boats for use inside the FAB. ePAK has
recently filed for several patents on effective shipping of background
and bumped wafers with experience in shipping wafers as thin as 3 mils
with 3 mil bumps.

Company description: ePAK was founded in the late 1999 by an
experienced team of packaging engineers. The Company's initial focus
was on backend materials such as shipping trays and carrier tape. At
the beginning of 2003, the Company decided to produce products for
shipping wafers. Since then, ePAK has brought more than 100 products
to market for wafers from 1" up to 300 mm.

Company:  EUropean Operation Ltd., The
Booth/Stand:  133
Media Relations Contact:  Adam Fletcher
Investor relations Contact:  Jeff Weigel
Phone:  +44 1 600 89 05 05
E-mail:  info@TheEUropeanOperation.com
Company URL:  http://www.TheEUropeanOperation.com
or http://www.TheEUropeanOperation.com

Pan-European:

-"Top 10" Target OEM Customer Direct Sales...

-"Full Service" Public Relations / Marketing Communications...

-Business Advisory Services...

EUO focus exclusively on the needs of Semiconductor "Start-Up's"
entering the European Market. We leverage our sales, marketing,
management, experience, industry knowledge and contacts to generate
results...

"...The EUropean Operation's unique blend of sales, marketing
communications and business strategy, gave us an effective way to
build momentum in Europe a year earlier than we could afford to do it
any other way..." Bob Nunn - President and CEO - Fulcrum Microsystems
Inc.

Company: EverCAD Navigator
Booth/Stand:  512
Media Contact: Brian Oh
Phone: 510-744-1168 x 228
E-mail: brian@evercad.com
Company URL: http://www.evercad.com
Press Area URL: http://www.evercad.com/news.html

Product description: EverCAD's ADiT is an analog/mixed-signal
simulator that can be used as (1) SPICE with greater than 3X speed
with the same accuracy. (2) High capacity fast SPICE with greater than
20X speed within 3% accuracy loss. (3) Hierarchical simulator for
memories, i.e., DRAM. (4) SoC verification, which co-simulates with
VCS, NC-Verilog, Verilog-XL and ModelSim.

Company description: EverCAD's vision is to be the most trusted
and the best EDA technology firm. EverCAD Corporation is a private EDA
firm specializing in advanced circuit simulation & analysis tool suite
for analog, mixed signal, and SoC designs. It was founded in 1998 and
currently employs over 20 staff members worldwide.

Company: Fabless Semiconductor Association
Booth/Stand: 518
Media Contact: Helen Garrett
Phone: 972-239-5119 x201
E-mail: hgarrett@sheltongroup.com
Company URL: http://www.fsa.org
Press Area URL: http://www.fsa.org/news/

The FSA is the voice of the global fabless business model.
Incorporated in 1994, the Association positively impacts the growth
and return on invested capital of this business model to enhance the
environment for innovation. The FSA provides a platform for meaningful
global collaboration between fabless companies and their partners;
provides members with timely research and resources; and identifies,
debates, and discusses business and technical issues. FSA members
include fabless companies and their supply chain and service partners
and represent more than 21 countries spanning North America,
Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

Company: Galaxy Semiconductor Solutions
Booth/Stand: 152
Media Contact: Bertrand Renaud
Phone: 781.891.1148
E-mail: Bertrand.renaud@galaxysemi.com
Company URL: http://www.galaxysemi.com

Product description: Galaxy's Examinator(TM) is a software solution
that enables test and product engineers to perform characterization,
production monitoring, and yield analysis studies from standard
semiconductor data files such as STDF, GDF, WAT, etc. Over 1000
engineers across hundreds of sites worldwide, within fabless, IDMs,
ATE and Subcontractor organizations, rely on Examinator today.

Company description: Galaxy Semiconductor Solutions develops and
markets innovative test data analysis and optimization software aimed
at the semiconductor industry. The Galaxy software enables product and
test engineers to rapidly conduct correlation, trend, and root cause
analysis for their product characterization, yield improvement and
test optimization missions.

Company: GDA Technologies Inc
Booth/Stand: 509
Media Contact: Sandeep Mohankumar
Investor Relations: Deepika Sarai
Phone: 408-467-3587
E-mail: sandeep@gdatech.com
Company URL: http://www.gdatech.com
Press Area URL: http://www.gdatech.com/NewsF.htm

Product description: Electronic Design Services including Chip
design, Board and Systems design, Embedded Software design and Soft
IPs.

In the IC Design space, GDA provides Logic design, DFT, Physical
design and Foundry Interface services. GDA also has suite of IP's such
as PCI Express, RapidIO, Hypertransport, SPI4.2, 10GMAC etc.

Company description: GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading
Electronic Design Services (EDS) company specializing in embedded,
networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA is focused on
designing IC and board level products in areas of High speed
communications, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held
Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Company: Global Factory.Net, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 127, 129 & 131
Media Contact: Rina Lee
Investor Relations Contact: Sharone Zehavi
Phone: (408) 551-6450
E-mail: info@globalfactory.net
Company URL: http://www.globalfactory.net

Product description: Global Factory Semiconductor Manufacturing
Management Software is the most comprehensive in the industry.
Features include WIP control, Design, Product Engineering, Sales,
Distribution, Supply Chain, Analytics, Planning and Quality Control.
It facilitates Exception Based Management and "Instant ISO" with
end-to-end business process execution. Extremely flexible, easy
integration and comes with personalized portals.

Company description: Global Factory (founded in 1999) develops
solutions for the unique global operation challenges of the
semiconductor industry. It is the leading supplier of value-chain
solutions. With comprehensive functionality covering customer facing,
internal operation, engineering, supplier facing and overall quality
control, Global Factory has the most customer deployments in the
segment.

Company: Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Booth/Stand: 153
Media Contact: Ann Mohler
Phone: 925.934.8500
E-mail: annmo@heffgroup.com
Company URL: http://www.heffgroup.com

Product Description: TECHchoice, a division of Heffernan Insurance
Brokers, designs and implements insurance and benefits programs for
high tech companies of all types. From start-ups to multinationals;
software to hardware, TECHchoice has the expertise and efficiency the
tech world expects. With a focus in fabless, TECHchoice is proud to
sponsor the FSA.

Company Description: Heffernan Insurance Brokers is one of the
largest full service insurance brokerages in Northern California.
Providing comprehensive insurance and financial services to businesses
and individuals nationwide; Heffernan is headquartered in Walnut
Creek, California with additional offices in San Francisco, Petaluma,
Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon; and West Palm Beach,
Florida.

Company: Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Booth/stand: 325
Media Contact: Jim Huang
Phone: 408-997-6237
E-mail: jhuang9898@aol.com
Company URL: http://www.hkstp.org

Product description: HKSTP provides shared facilities/services for
IC design companies to complete the whole IC design/development
process from design start to production release:
IC Data Centre
IC EDA Centre
IC Probe and Test Development Centre
Reliability Lab
Product Analysis Lab
Photonics Development Support Centre

All facilities are ISO9001 certified.

Company Description: Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks
Corporation (HKSTP) is a $1.5 Billion project set up by Hong Kong
Government. HKSTP' mission is to provide quality infrastructure and
support facilities for innovation and technology development in
focused clusters that encompass electronics, biotechnology, precision
engineering and information technology/telecommunications industries.

Company: HPL Technologies, Inc.
Ticker Symbol: HPLA.PK
Booth/Stand: 221/223
Media Contact: Dean Frazier
Investor Relations Contact: Michael Scarpelli
Phone: 408-437-1466
E-mail: info@hpl.com
Company URL: http://www.hpl.com
Press Area URL: http://www.hpl.com/news/index.htm

Product description: Cell Designer is a next-generation DFM
software solution targeted at devices built in advanced process
technologies (130nm and below). Design data (circuit netlist and
layout) are combined with process data (lithography, etch, and process
variation) into a calibrated physical simulation to accurately predict
electrical circuit performance and yield.

Company description: HPL is a leading provider of DFM and yield
optimization solutions that enable semiconductor companies to enhance
the efficiency of design, fabrication and test. HPL's products include
a robust, flexible software platform that accelerates the process of
identifying, measuring, and correcting sources of failure in
production processes and designs.

Company:  IPCore Technologies

IPCore Technologies is a global IC design service company. With
offices in China, United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, IPCore
delivers the most competitive IC design service solution to clients
worldwide. IPCore can give your product an extra competitive edge in
lower power, higher performance or smaller die due to its core
competency in optimization. Optimization is aided by broad selection
of internal and external tools and supported by a team of experienced
IC professionals. IPCore is the One-Stop-Silicon-Solution company with
flexible business models whether you need standard ASIC design service
or full turn-key solution from concept to product.

Company: Jazz Semiconductor
Booth/Stand: 515 & 517
Media Contact: Lauri Julian
Investor Relations Contact: Erica Mannion;
Erica@sapphireinvestorrelations.com
Phone: (949) 453-8080
E-mail: Lauri@lages.com
Company URL: http://www.jazzsemi.com

Product description: Analog and RF focused platform process
technologies at 0.35um, 0.25um and 0.18um nodes, including standard
digital CMOS, Analog/RF CMOS, BiCMOS and SiGe BiCMOS and associated
process modules for advanced levels of RF and Analog integration. Jazz
processes are focused on wireless, wireline and emerging converged
consumer applications.

Company description: Jazz Semiconductor is an independent wafer
foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies,
including SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS for the manufacture of highly
integrated analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. Jazz has
expanded its wafer fabrication facilities beyond the U.S. through
manufacturing partnerships in China with Advanced Semiconductor
Manufacturing Corporation and Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co., Ltd.

Company: Kilopass Technology, Inc.
Booth/Stand:  510
Media Contact: Georgia Marszalek; 650-345-7477; Georgia@ValleyPR.com
Investor Relations Contact: Charles Ng; 408-980-8808;
klptinfo@kilopass.com
Company URL:  http://www.kilopass.com
Press Area URL: http://www.kilopass.com/e15/?CurrentItem=4&SubItem=3

Kilopass Technology's Super Permanent Memory (XPM) provides an
excellent solution for electrically field-programmable code storage,
data storage, embedded security features, and IC configuration
applications such as memory repair, circuit trimming and calibration,
and low cost, flexible implementation of customer specific product
features.

Kilopass Technology's Super Permanent Memory (XPM) is built using
standard CMOS logic process technologies and requires no additional
mask steps or process modifications. It is fully scalable, and silicon
proven to deliver high density, high performance, and high reliability
electrically field-programmable embedded NVM solutions in today's
leading edge CMOS technologies.

Company: KYEC
Ticker Symbol:  Taiwan SEC #2449
Booth/Stand: 226
Media Contact: jcku@kyec.com.tw
Investor Relations Contact: joggerchao@kyec.com.tw
Phone: 1-408-452-7680
E-mail: hcpeng@kyecusa.com
Company URL: http://www.kyec.com.tw

Product description: KYEC offers complete IC back end testing
services. The comprehensive service line includes Wafer-Sort,
Laser-Repair, Wafer-Grinding, Dicing-Saw, Waffle-Pack, Final test,
Burn-in, Module-Test, Marking, Lead Scan, Tape & Reel, Dry-Pack,
Drop-ship. Engineering capabilities well cover Memory, Logic,
Mix-signal, RF/SOC, Image Sensor, LCD driver.

Company description: No.1 Semiconductor Test Service. KYEC Commits
To Offer Complete Engineering And Production Services With Capable
Resources, Large Production Basis, Perfect Facilities And State-Of-Art
Workmanship To Provide Multi-Disciplines of Testing To Ensure
Customers To Receive Services With Cost Effective, Short Turn-Around
Time But No Compromise To The Quality.

Company: Magma Design Automation
Ticker Symbol: LAVA
Booth/stand: 432
Media contact: Monica Marmie
Investor Relations Contact: Milan G. Lazich
Phone: 408-5665-7500
E-mail: aila@magma-da.com
Company URL: http://www.magma-da.com
Press Area URL: http://www.magma-da.com/news.html

Magma provides leading software for designing highly complex
integrated circuits while maximizing Quality of Results and reducing
overall design cycles and costs. At the 2004 FSA Suppliers Expo, Magma
will be highlighting Blast Create(TM), its advanced front-end design
solution, Quartz Formal(TM), its new high-capacity formal verification
solution and Blast Logic(TM), a utility that reads a netlist and
constraints to generate reports for assessing timing feasibility.
Magma will also be a featured partner in Chartered Semiconductor's
exhibit where Magma will provide an overview of a reference flow that
is designed to make adopting the jointly developed IBM-Chartered 90-nm
semiconductor process platform fast and easy.

Company: MEFAS, Inc.
Booth: 146
Phone: 949-699-0525
E-Mail: lab@mefas.com
Company URL: http://www.mefas.com

MEFAS - Microelectronics Failure Analysis, Testing, & Reliability
Qualification Services offers one stop shopping for professional
microelectronics failure analysis, reliability qualification services,
and FIB circuit edits. MEFAS specializes in comprehensive Failure
Analysis Services and Reliability Testing.

Located in Southern California, our state-of-the-art 15,000 sq.
ft. laboratory has 33 engineers and technicians supporting
organizations worldwide. In business for over a decade, MEFAS is the
leader in device functional failure analysis service.

Company: Microbridge Technologies Inc.
Booth/Stand: 104
Media Contact: Nick Tasker
Investor Relations Contact: Mike Foster
Phone: (514) 938-8089
E-mail: ntasker@mbridgetech.com
Company URL: http://www.mbridgetech.com

Product description: The Rejustor is a low-cost replacement for
manual trim potentiometers, laser-trimmed resistors and digital
trimming devices. The Rejustor is an electrically-trimmable passive
resistor whose resistance and TCR can be adjusted independently. The
Rejustor provides a simple, low cost means to adjust and temperature
compensate ALL analog circuits, discrete and integrated.

Company description: Microbridge Technologies Inc. is a technology
product and licensing company specializing in micro-systems technology
for electronics, semiconductor devices and sensor-based systems.

Company: MOSAID Technologies, Inc.
Ticker Symbol: MSD.TO
Booth/Stand: 201
Media Contact: Sara Haskill
Investor Relations Contact: Richard Boadway
Phone: 408 565-9418
E-mail: lev@mosaid.com
Company URL: http://www.mosaid.com
Press Area URL:
http://www.mosaid.com/corporate/news-events/releases-2004/index.php

Product Description: MOSAID licenses a range of Semiconductor
Intellectual Property (SIP) products. From embedded DRAM and CAM
macrocells to I/O libraries and memory controllers, MOSAID SIP is
ideal for networking, communications, electronic data processing and
consumer applications. MOSAID also offers clients full custom design
services to integrate and optimize our SIP offerings.

Company Description: MOSAID is a global leader in semiconductor
memory, serving its customers with innovative design, test and
intellectual property products and services. Invention is our
Hallmark. Almost three decades of MOSAID memory expertise and
innovation enable semiconductor companies worldwide to improve the
quality, reliability and functionality of their memory related
products.

Company: Nassda Corporation
Ticker Symbol: Nasdaq: NSDA
Booth: 346
Media Contact:  Graham Bell
Investor Relations Contact: Annie Chan-Zien
Phone: 408-988-9988
E-mail: sales@nassda.com
Company URL: http://www.nassda.com
Press Area URL: http://www.nassda.com/news.html

Product description: Discover why over 250 companies rely on
Nassda(TM) for early success of their analog, mixed-signal, memory,
and high-performance digital designs. HSIMplus provides full-chip
post-layout simulation and IR drop analysis, with an optional link to
digital co-simulation. HANEX(TM) and CRITIC(TM) deliver high-accuracy
timing analysis for custom and ASIC digital flows.

Company description: Nassda is a leading provider of full-chip
circuit verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors. It
develops and markets simulation analysis solutions for advanced ICs,
especially for analog, mixed signal, memory, system-on-chip and high
performance digital designs. Nassda enables first silicon success, and
improved product quality and yield for its customers.

Company: OCP-IP (Open Core Protocol- International Partnership
Booth/Stand: 330
Media Contact: Joe Basques
Investor Relations Contact: OCP-IP Administration
Phone: (503) 291-2560
E-mail: admin@ocpip.org
Company URL: http://www.ocpip.org
Press Area URL: http://www.ocpip.org/pressroom/releases/2004

OCP International Partnership is a non-profit semiconductor
industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and
enhancement of the Open Core Protocol (OCP) specification. OCP is the
first fully supported, openly licensed, complete interface socket for
IP cores. OCP addresses design, verification and testing issues common
to IP core reuse in "plug-and-play" SoC products.

Company: PDF Solutions
Ticker Symbol: PDFS
Booth/Stand: 539/541
Media Contact:  Jen Bernier; 408-977-7762; jen@akipr.com
Investor Relations contact: Sonia Segovia; 408-280-7900;
sonia.segovia@pdf.com
Company URL: http://www.pdf.com
Press Area URL:  http://www.pdf.com/news_top.phtml

Product description: dataPOWER(TM) YMS platform is the industry's
defacto standard for data management and yield enhancement. pDfx(TM)
Environment - Is the first tool that lets designers implement
process-aware design-for-manufacturability (DFM) at the synthesis
stage of design flows, without needing a Ph.D. in process engineering.

Company description: PDF Solutions(R), Inc. is the leading provider
of process-design-integration technologies for manufacturing ICs.
PDF's products and services help chip companies optimize
manufacturability of chip designs and capability of fab processes.
Through simulation of nanometer design and process interactions, the
PDF solution offers clients reduced time to market, increased chip
yield and performance, and enhanced product reliability and
profitability.

Company: Photronics, Inc.
Ticker Symbol: PLAB
Booth/Stand: 206
Media Contact: Michael McCarthy
Phone: 203-775-9000
E-mail: mmccarthy@brk.photronics.com
Company URL: http://www.photronics.com
Press Area URL: http://www.photronics.com/about/press.jsp

Product description: A key element in the manufacture of
semiconductors, photomasks are used to transfer circuit patterns onto
semiconductor wafers during the fabrication of integrated circuits.
Photomask technology is also critical in the production of
microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS), biosensors and a variety of
photonics devices.

Company description: Photronics is the industry leader in the
design, development and production of reticles and photomasks for
semiconductor and microelectronic applications. Established in
Connecticut in 1969, the Company became a publicly-held corporation in
1987 and today operates nine manufacturing facilities around the
globe.

Company: Pintail Technologies
Booth/Stand: 227
Media Contact: Stephanie Mayo; smayo@sheltongroup.com;
(972) 239-5119 x139
Investor Relations Contact: Taylor Scanlon
Phone: (972) 464-5919
E-mail: taylor.scanlon@pintail.com
Company URL: http://www.pintail.com
Link To Your Press Area URL:
http://www.pintail.com/resources/downloads.htm

Product description: Pintail's integrated software suite for
real-time test monitoring and optimization applies advanced sampling
and parts averaging: TestVision(R) offers quick data analysis,
graphing and management to improve test programs. SwifTest(R) reduces
test time and improves quality through dynamic, real-time sampling and
reporting of test program performance. The TestScape(TM) Web-based
dashboard provides real-time, up-to-the-second test floor reporting
and analysis.

Company description: Pintail Technologies is a semiconductor test
improvement company providing breakthrough software solutions
combining real-time test process control and innovative analytical
programs to impact testing cost and quality. Pintail solutions help
fabless and integrated device manufacturers, test suppliers and ATE
vendors increase competitive advantage and hasten customer response.

Company: PolarFab
Booth/Stand: 447
Media Contact: Christina Sanchez; (215) 453-8700;
csanchez@simongroup.com
Phone: (952) 876-3000
E-mail: info@polarfab.com
Company URL: http://www.polarfab.com

Product Description: PolarFab provides analog and mixed-signal
foundry services for customer-designed integrated circuits using BCD,
BiCMOS and bipolar silicon processes for mixed-signal and power
management semiconductor applications. We offer a complete range of
services including wafer fabrication, process design kits, process
development and transfer, mask generation, wafer probe, failure
analysis, reliability testing and prototype assembly.

Company Description: Headquartered in Bloomington, MN, PolarFab is
the only US-owned, pure-play foundry in the country. We provide our
customers with faster time-to-volume in an easy-to-do-business-with
environment. We accomplish this with our superior manufacturing
capability, proven design methodology, and exceptional customer
service through the creativity, flexibility, and responsiveness of our
people.

Company: Prolific Inc.
Booth/Stand: 506
Media Contact: Michael Miller
Phone: 510-252-0490
E-mail: info@prolificinc.com
Company URL: http://www.prolificinc.com/
Press Area URL: http://www.prolificinc.com/news.html

Product description: ProTimingTM runs during the PrimeTime step of
the physical design flow, performing block-level, design-specific
timing optimization. The software makes use of cells already existing
in the library and can provide a 5-10-20% performance increase or
power reduction without modifying RTL or adding new cells to the
library.

Company description: Prolific Inc.'s tools optimize IC timing,
power, area, and yield, while reducing overall design time and costs.
ProTimingTM delivers up to 20% improvement in timing and power in a
no-risk, fully automated, and integrated flow. ProGenesis(R)
automatically creates standard cells optimized for design performance,
power, area and yield.

Company: QThink
Booth: 505
Media/Investor Relations Contact: Marco Zelada
Phone: (858) 362-8179
E-mail: marcoz@qthink.com
Company URL: http://www.qthink.com

QThink designs low-power, high-performance, complex ICs for
customers in a number of vertical markets such as wireless,
networking, consumer, etc., using ASIC, COT, and Rapid-Prototyping
approaches. The IC design service offering is complete front-to-back,
starting from a paper specification, QThink Executable Spec (QES),
RTL, or netlist hand-off. The company has completed over 150 complex
designs, in technologies that span the entire spectrum in leading edge
deep-submicron fabrication technologies. QThink's partnerships with
all leading foundry, IP, and EDA providers, along with its engineering
capabilities, excellence in project execution, and professional
program management on all projects allows the company to provide this
full range of services.

Company: Sarnoff Europe
Booth/Stand: 329
Media Contact: Henk De Blaere
Phone: +32-59-275.915
E-mail: hdeblaere@sarnoffeurope.com
Company URL: http://www.sarnoffeurope.com
Press Area URL: http://www.sarnoffeurope.com/events.html

Product description: TakeCharge ESD design IP delivers clear and
continuous customer value. Silicon proven in a broad, advanced range
of technologies/applications: CMOS down to 65nm, BiCMOS, SiGe, SOI, HV
& RF/HS, low-capacitance... Customized solutions are delivered as
Technology Transfer or Design Kit, including design rules, tools,
application notes, reference cells, support, maintenance.

Company description: Sarnoff Europe from Gistel, Belgium, is a
subsidiary company of Sarnoff Corporation of Princeton, NJ. Sarnoff
Europe assumes worldwide responsibility for development, maintenance
and commercialization of an innovative Intellectual Property (IP)
portfolio for on-chip ESD protection & IC yield - known as
TakeCharge(R). Licensees include major IDM and fabless companies.

Company: Silicon Border Development
Booth/Stand: 203
Media Contact: Stephanie Mayo; smayo@sheltongroup.com;
(972) 239-5119 x139
Investor Relations Contact: Ron Jones; ron.jones@siliconborder.com
Phone: (510) 796-2493
E-mail: ron.jones@sheltongroup.com
Company URL: http://www.siliconborder.com
Press Area URL: http://www.siliconborder.com/aboutus

Product description: Silicon Border is a 10,000-acre, high-tech
industrial park establishing a cost-effective manufacturing
alternative in North America for the semiconductor supply chain. The
construction-ready site in Mexico offers 15 square miles of
world-class utility resources and infrastructure to support the
operational, technical and financial needs of the global chip
industry.

Company description: Established in 2001, Silicon Border
Development has assembled a team of semiconductor, finance and real
estate experts to establish North America's premier semiconductor park
in Mexicali, Mexico. Guided by US industry and Mexican economic
leaders, Silicon Border is focused on world-class support for
providers of IC design, manufacture and device integration.

Company: Sonics
Booth: 126
Media Contact: Nancy Sheffield (408) 269-0849
Phone: 408-269-0849
Email: nancypr@aol.com
Company URL: http://www.sonicsinc.com
Press Area URL: http://www.sonicsinc.com/sonics/news/index_html

Company Description: Sonics, Inc. provides the next-level of
internal interconnect solutions required to speed design and reduce
the risk of developing complex system-on-chip (SOC) semiconductors.
Sonics' SMART interconnects simplify IP integration, improve SOC
performance, increase reusability of design blocks, and reduce overall
development costs. Major semiconductor and systems companies have
successfully applied Sonics products and methodologies to SOCs used in
leading products in the wireless, digital consumer electronics, and
communications markets. Visit Sonics at the FSA Expo and hear how
customers have experienced dramatic reductions in time to market while
enjoying significant savings in design and manufacturing costs.

Company: Toppan Chunghwa Electronics Co., Ltd. (TCE)
Booth/Stand: 326/328
Media Contact: Frank Chang
Investor Relations Contact: Richard Chen
Phone: +886-3-5643000 ext.250
E-mail: rich@tce.com.tw
Company URL: http://www.tce.com.tw

Product description: TCE provides photomask solutions that assist
customers in meeting the complex challenges of new technology. Besides
supporting wide-ranging technology needs, we are responsible for
supplying our customers with 65nm, 45nm and advanced photomask.

Company description: In the competitive world of microelectronics,
we at TCE are proud to be recognized as one of the worldwide leading
photomask provider. TCE has well experiences to provide customized
services to foundry, design house and IC fab customers. We are able to
meet customers' requirements in all aspects of photomask production.

Company: Viko Test Lab
Booth/Stand: 229
Media Contact: Deanna Patino
Phone: 408 988-2181
E-mail: dcrader@vikotestlab.com
Company URL: http://www.vikotestlab.com

Product description: VIKO Test Lab is the semiconductor industry's
test house of choice for Electrical Test, Burn-in, Package
Qualification and Back-end Services in the Bay Area. With the addition
of new tester platforms and increase of our engineering development
capability, VIKO Test Lab is poised to provide our customers with even
greater value propositions.

Company description: VIKO Test Lab, founded in 1991 is an Infiniti
Solutions company. VIKO works with other Infiniti Solutions companies
ADEC, ACOM and ATEC to integrate our operations with burnin
chambers/boards, systems PC board fabrication & assembly and offshore
Assembly & Test services under one management.

Company: Virtual Silicon
Booht/Stand: 205
Media Contact: John Ford
Phone: (408) 548-2700
E-mail: johnf@virtual-silicon.com
Company URL: http://www.virtual-silicon.com
Press Area URL: http://www.virtual-silicon.com/newsroom.cfm

Product Description: Virtual Silicon supplies semiconductor IP to
manufacturers and designers of systems-on-chip (SoC). Their complete
SIP solutions include Mobilize(TM) - the industry's first power
management IP solution in addition to their standard cell libraries,
basic I/Os, application specific I/Os, memory compilers & instances,
and PLL compilers & instances.

Company Description: Virtual Silicon is a leading supplier of
semiconductor intellectual property (SIP). Virtual Silicon has
licensed and delivered its Silicon Ready(R) SIP products to hundreds
of customers creating complex systems-on-chip (SoC), including
semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, SoC designers, and systems
developers who demand broad functionality, highest quality, and
maximum performance for their semiconductor innovations.

Company: White Mountain Labs
Booth/Stand: 523
Media Contact: Brenda McCaffrey
Phone: (480) 763-0497, x12
E-mail: Brenda.mccaffrey@whitemountainlabs.com
Company URL: http://www.whitemountainlabs.com
Press Area URL: http://www.whitemountainlabs.com/pressroom.asp

Product description: White Mountain Labs, the industry leader in
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and Latch-up testing, has successfully
integrated Transmission Line Pulse (TLP) measurements with
product-level ESD testing. ESD is a significant yield and quality
issue for packaged semiconductor devices. TLP measurements have become
an important tool in the design of on-chip protection.

Company description: White Mountain Labs is a dedicated
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) test facility performing testing to
standards prescribed by the ESD Association, JEDEC, Mil-Std and the
Automotive Electronics Council (AEC). WML works with clients to create
the ESD knowledge exchange that builds client confidence in the
robustness of integrated circuit designs.

Company: X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries
Booth/Stand: 301-305
Media Contact: Dagmar Berendes; Thomas Hartung
Phone: (408) 505-5551
E-mail: dagmar@thinkbold.com
Company URL: http://www.xfab.com
Press Area URL:
http://www.xfab.com/xfab/frontend/index.php4?id=7&sort=
sort&pre_cat_open=1&subid=252&subsort=name

X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG, headquartered in Erfurt,
Germany, is an independent analog/mixed-signal foundry manufacturing
silicon wafers for analog-digital integrated circuits (mixed-signal
ICs) on customer order. The company maintains production facilities in
Erfurt (Germany), Plymouth (UK) and Lubbock (Texas, US) and employs
approximately 1,000 people worldwide. Wafers are manufactured based on
ultra-modern modular CMOS- and BiCMOS- processes with technologies
ranging from 1.0 down to 0.35 micron. Main application areas are the
automotive, communications, consumer and industrial sector. More
information is available at www.xfab.com.

Company: X Initiative
Booth: 149
Media Contract: Sherrie Gutierrez, MCA
Phone: 650-968-8900
E-Mail: sgutierrez@mcapr.com
Company URL: http://www.xinitiative.org
Press Area URL: http://www.xinitiative.org/wt/sec.php?page_name=news

The X Initiative, a group of 40+ leading companies from throughout
the semiconductor industry, is chartered with accelerating the
availability and fabrication of the X Architecture, a revolutionary
interconnect architecture based on the pervasive use of diagonal
routing. The X Initiative's five-year mission is to provide an
independent source of education about the X Architecture, to
facilitate support and fabrication of the X Architecture through the
semiconductor industry design chain, and to survey usage of the X
Architecture to track its adoption. Membership is open to all
companies throughout the semiconductor supply chain.

Company:  ZFOUNDRY
Booth/Stand:  434/436
Media Contact:  Jamie Laughlin
Investor Relations Contact:  Konrad Herre
Phone:  408-844-0066 (at show 408-219-1853)
E-mail:   service@zfoundry.com
Company URL:  http://www.zfoundry.com

Product description: Customer Process Transfer: Utilizing over 40
years of experience and standard ZFOUNDRY(R) modules to create or
improve custom processes like HV-CMOS with special implant, DMOS,
power MOSFET, back metal, NMOS, BiCMOS and trench. Standard
Mixed-Signal Processes: CMOS on 0.8/0.6 um with analog, high or low
voltage, and embedded EEPROM options.

Company description: ZFOUNDRY(R) specializes in technologies for
power management, converter, and driver ICs including high-voltage
structures, thick and back metal. ZFOUNDRY(R) offers process transfer
and development, supported by an experienced technology team. The fab
also offers a standard mixed-signal technology portfolio, including
low-voltage and EEPROM devices, with long-term availability and
automotive qualification.

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