Tensilica Names InCOMM Technologies
an Authorized Design Center

Taipei, Taiwan, Santa Clara, Calif., November 13, 2001 - Tensilica Inc., the privately-held configurable and extensible microprocessor provider, today announced that InCOMM Technologies Co., Ltd., a leading Taiwan-based System-on-Chip (SOC) design organization, has been appointed as an Authorized Design Center for the Asia Pacific Region. With this assignment, InCOMM also joins Tensilica’s Xtensions Partners Network.

Bernie Rosenthal, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Tensilica, said, “We are committed to the Asia Pacific region because it is a critical market for our technology. The appointment of InCOMM as an authorized Tensilica design center adds a key partner with the experience to enable our customers to develop their Xtensa-based SOC designs. We look forward to working with InCOMM in helping our joint customers achieve their design and product goals with the unique benefits of application optimized Xtensa™ processors.”

“We are excited to join the Tensilica team,” said Tony Lo, InCOMM president. “We are very impressed with the company’s excellent CPU technology and software environment. Armed with an optimal core performance tailored to system requirements, compact and minimal code size resulting from Xtensa architecture and TIE, and in-sync software environment, InCOMM can easily and quickly incorporate Xtensa and Vectra™ cores to rapidly develop SOC designs for customers.”

About InCOMM

InCOMM Technologies Co., Ltd., an SOC integration service provider, was founded in January 2001. Composed of an experienced team of 30 senior engineers with strong knowledge of system, software, firmware and IC design, the firm was established to help customers to complete SOC integration, and offer turnkey ASIC design of communication and connectivity applications. InCOMM has offices in both Taipei and HsinChu, and is headquartered at 9F, #473, Sec. 2 Tiding Ave., Neihu district, Taipei, Taiwan. InCOMM can be reached at 886-2-2659-9609.

About Tensilica, Inc.

Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing market for configurable processors and software development tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-chip (SOC) designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware design and a complete software development tool environment tailored to their specific requirements in hours. Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use, methodology that enables designers to achieve optimum application performance in minimum design time. The Company is engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, California; Burlington, Massachusetts; Princeton, NJ; Houston, Texas; Oxford, U.K.; Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; and Yokohama, Japan. Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (95054) at 3255-6 Scott Boulevard, and can be reached at (408) 986-8000 or via www.tensilica.com on the World Wide Web.

Editors’ Notes:

Tensilica’s announced licensees are Avision, Inc., Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Fujitsu Ltd., Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation, Marvell (Galileo Technology), Mindspeed Technologies, National Semiconductor, NEC Networks, NEC Solutions, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), ONEX Communications, Osaka & Kyoto Universities, TranSwitch Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC), and ZiLOG.

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