Gigastone Selects Altair’s Verizon-Certified Chipset to Power the SmartBox® Wireless Portable Multimedia Router

HOD HASHARON, Israel, January 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –

Altair Semiconductor (http://www.altair-semi.com), the world’s leading developer
of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced
that its FourGee(TM) LTE chipset has been selected by Gigastone to power its LTE-enabled
SmartBox(R) product. The SmartBox(R) is an innovative all-in-one portable WiFi/LTE router
which includes capabilities such as secure file storage & cloud access, content sharing &
streaming and mobile power charging.

Earlier this year, and following more than three years of global commercial shipments,
Altair’s 3100/6202 chipset became one of the first LTE chipsets to achieve Verizon
Wireless LTE chipset certification.

“The use of Altair’s Verizon-Certified chipset shortened our development time and will
shorten the deployment time of our SmartBox(R), saving us both significant effort and
money,” said Michael Wang, CEO of Gigastone. “The Verizon-certified product is the first
in a line of products which we plan to introduce based on the Altair chipset. The maturity
and multi-band TD/FDD-LTE capabilities of the Altair chipset will enable us to introduce
devices into virtually any market globally.”

Altair is a leader in the global LTE chip industry, with Altair-based products
currently commercially shipping into numerous carrier networks around the world in
America, Europe, Japan, China and India.

“We are very excited to have been selected by Gigastone to power one of the LTE
industry’s most innovative products to date,” said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of
Marketing at Altair. “We look forward to working closely with Gigastone to quickly get
this product into the hands of consumers and to continue serving as a strategic partner as
they introduce new technology and devices to the market.”

About Altair Semiconductor

Altair Semiconductor is the world’s leading developer of ultra-low power, small
footprint and high performance 4G semiconductors. Altair’s chipsets can be found in
approximately 30 end-user devices – ranging from USB dongles to smartphones – built by its
more than 15 customers across North America, Europe, China, India and Taiwan – making it
one of the only TDD/FDD LTE chipset manufacturers in the world with commercially available
products. Altair’s comprehensive product portfolio includes baseband processors,
multi-band RF transceivers for both FDD and TDD bands, and a range of reference hardware
and product level protocol stack software. Based on a novel, proprietary Software Defined
Radio (SDR) processor, codenamed “O[2]P(TM)”, Altair’s products are the smallest and most
highly power optimized in the industry, offering an unmatched combination of flexibility
and performance. For more information, visit the company’s website at
http://www.altair-semi.com. Follow Altair on Twitter: @AltairSemi

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