Sunnyvale, CA, October 9, 2000 - Tensilica, Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of application-specific processors and development tools for System-on-Chip (SOC) designs today announced that GLOBAL UNICHIP Corp. has been appointed as a Tensilica Authorized Design Center.

　　　Design Centers provide essential services to many organizations that are defining and building their leading edge SOC designs today. Through the company's Authorized Design Center program, a part of the Tensilica Xtensions Network Program, Tensilica ensures that these services will be available to its licensees. Tensilica Authorized Design Center engineering personnel receive extensive training on the Xtensa? architecture, configuration and software development tools, on-going support and access to technology updates, and direct access to applications engineering.

　　　"GLOBAL UNICHIP has established a reputation of excellence, providing their customers design services and IP for complex SOC's in multimedia and communications products," noted Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of marketing and business development. "Their focus on platform solutions for these market segments coupled with expertise in supporting the configurable Xtensa? processor will enable our customers to achieve their demanding time to market, performance and cost goals. We look forward to working with UNICHIP to serve our customers in Taiwan."

　　　"GLOBAL UNICHIP has established a reputation of excellence, providing their customers design services and IP for complex SOC's in multimedia and communications products," noted Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of marketing and business development. "Their focus on platform solutions for these market segments coupled with expertise in supporting the configurable Xtensa? processor will enable our customers to achieve their demanding time to market, performance and cost goals. We look forward to working with UNICHIP to serve our customers in Taiwan."

About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing market for configurable microprocessor cores and software development tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-a-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 has over 100 engineers engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, Princeton, N.J., Houston, Texas, Oxford, U.K. 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.