Global Semiconductor Alliance Announces 2007 Award Winners

Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announces the winners of its
2007 awards, presented at its Awards Dinner Celebration on Thursday,
December 6, 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Members of the semiconductor industry selected the Most Respected
Private, Emerging Public and Public Fabless Company Award winners by
identifying the companies they most respect in terms of products,
vision and future opportunities. This year´s private company winner is
Inphi Corporation; the emerging public company winner is Atheros
Communications, Inc., and the public company winner is NVIDIA
Corporation.

GSA and financial analysts evaluated the financial health of
public fabless semiconductor companies by comparing a number of
financial indices to determine the winner of this year´s Best
Financially Managed Company Award, MediaTek Inc.

Private fabless companies that doubled revenue over eight
consecutive quarters ending June 2007 were eligible to receive the
Outstanding Financial Performance by a Private Fabless Company Award.
This year´s winner is RMI (Raza Microelectronics, Inc.).

Public fabless companies that doubled either revenue or net income
over eight consecutive quarters ending June 2007 were eligible to
receive the Outstanding Financial Performance by a Public Fabless
Company Award. Winners include Sigma Designs, Inc. and Techwell, Inc.

GSA´s Venture Capital Advisory Council selected the Fabless
Start-Up to Watch Award winner by identifying the company that has
demonstrated the potential to positively change its market or the
semiconductor industry in general through the innovative use of or a
new application for semiconductor technology. The winner is SiBEAM,
Inc.

The Favorite Fabless Picks winners are based on historical and
projected data. Arnab Chanda of Deutsche Bank Securities chose
Broadcom Corporation, and Mark Lipacis of Morgan Stanley selected
Cavium Networks.

The Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award recognizes
individuals for their exceptional contributions to drive the
development, innovation, growth and long-term opportunities for the
fabless semiconductor industry. The 2007 award was presented to Gordon
Campbell, executive director, TechFarm Ventures.

The Awards Dinner Celebration was made possible through the
support of this year´s title sponsor, UMC, sponsors including: AMI
Semiconductor, ARM, Broadcom, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered
Semiconductor Manufacturing, Common Platform, Denali Software,
Deutsche Bank Securities, Ernst & Young LLP, IBM, Jazz Semiconductor,
JP Morgan, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Marvell Semiconductor, Morgan
Stanley, NVIDIA, Oracle, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Samsung, SAP,
STATS ChipPAC, Teradyne, TSMC and Verigy, as well as media sponsor,
Pennwell.

About GSA:

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) mission is to accelerate
the growth and increase the return on invested capital of the global
semiconductor industry by fostering a more effective fabless ecosystem
through collaboration, integration and innovation. It addresses the
challenges within the supply chain including IP, EDA/design, wafer
manufacturing, test and packaging to enable industry-wide solutions.
Providing a platform for meaningful global collaboration, the Alliance
identifies and articulates market opportunities, encourages and
supports entrepreneurship, and provides members with comprehensive and
unique market intelligence. Members include companies throughout the
supply chain representing 25 countries across the globe.
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