IPextreme to Accelerate Power Architecture Adoption by Making Valuable Member IP Widely Available

--IPextreme Inc, a value-added reseller of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), is working with Power.org to accelerate the adoption of the Power Architecture(TM) by making important member IP available. Power.org's mission is to develop, enable and promote the Power Architecture as the preferred open standard hardware development platform for the electronics industry, and IPextreme will assist by enabling key member technology to benefit the broader semiconductor design community.

Today's high-volume System-on-Chip (SOC) devices are created by assembling large pre-existing functional blocks of IP, often from outside the company. Power.org members can complete SOC devices much faster if they can take advantage of high-value, silicon-proven IP that other members have already completed -- but until now there was no easy mechanism for them to do so. IPextreme will upgrade key designs into commercially viable IP, license that IP and most importantly provide the support necessary for its successful integration.

Juan Antonio Carballo, partner in the IBM venture capital group, commented, "I'm excited to have a new VC-backed Power.org member, IPextreme, as their business offering may contribute to accelerate Power-based SOC design. Power is becoming a disruptive play in the semiconductor market with its enormous flexibility ranging from consumer gaming devices to high-end supercomputers, together with its world-class venture capital community participation."

Warren Savage, IPextreme CEO, added, "Power.org counts among its members some of the world's most capable chip design companies and we are pleased to work with them to make those designs available to the semiconductor design community to speed their developments."

About IPextreme Inc.

IPextreme brings high-value intellectual property (IP) from large semiconductor companies to consumer and automotive System-on-Chip (SOC) designers worldwide. These products are silicon proven to minimize design risk and provided in a process independent and EDA neutral format, for easy use by the broadest range of customers. With a decade of experience in developing, packaging, licensing and supporting IP, our team offers a complete business solution for semiconductor companies to strategically leverage their internal IP portfolio to grow overall revenue. IPextreme has offices in Campbell, California, Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. www.ip-extreme.com.

About Power.org

Power.org is a community of companies driving innovation around Power Architecture technology. Comprised of leaders in the technology field, Power.org is a framework through which its members engage in collaborative innovation on Power Architecture technology, with the mission of optimizing interoperability and accelerating innovation to drive increased adoption of Power Architecture technology around the world. Power.org currently has more than 40 members, including Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Jabil Circuit, Novell, P.A. Semi, Red Hat, Synopsys, and Thales. For more details on Power.org visit the website www.power.org.