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NetLogic Microsystems Reaches Milestone of 500,000 Knowledge-Based Processors Shipped; Company Maintains Its Network Technology Leadership Position Through Growing Customer Validation

Posted on: Monday, 14 November 2005, 09:00 CST

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NETL), the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced it has now shipped 500,000 knowledge-based processors to date. The Company's knowledge-based processors enable high-performance decision-making for packet processing in a variety of advanced devices in the Enterprise, Metro, Access, Edge and Core networking markets.

"The shipment of 500,000 knowledge-based processors further validates our position as an industry-leading technology provider for enhanced network applications, and is a superb accomplishment of our talented and dedicated employees," said Ron Jankov, president and CEO of NetLogic Microsystems. "By enabling networking systems to perform up to 500 million decisions per second, our knowledge-based processors continue to meet the demands of 10 Gigabit Ethernet systems, and are well-positioned to meet the demands of future generations of complex network systems."

Key to NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processor design is the use of parallel processing, deep pipelining and advanced power management techniques, which allow the devices to handle multiple tasks at higher throughput rates, while still maintaining the lowest possible system power. These advanced processes enable multiple decisions to be made simultaneously for a broad range of network-aware processing functions such as routing, quality of service (QoS), access control for security and billing, and voice/video packet forwarding, all of which significantly improve the performance of advanced Internet applications such as VoIP, video on demand (VoD), and streaming video and audio.

NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors are designed into systems offered by leading networking OEMs, including AlaxalA Networks Corporation, Alcatel, ARRIS Group Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Extreme Networks, Inc., Foundry Networks, Inc., Force10 Networks, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and Juniper Networks Inc.. The knowledge-based processors have now penetrated virtually every point in the newly emerged Internet Protocol based triple-play communications network for voice, data and video. Their expanding and diversified end applications include Enterprise Switches and Routers, Telecom and IP infrastructure and Broadband Access devices such as DSLAM, CMTS, FTTP/FTTH and Ethernet Aggregation. Highlighting the numerous customer applications are Juniper Networks' E-Series edge routing platforms enabling the delivery of IPTV; Foundry Networks' BigIron RX-16 10Gbe switches powering the world's largest public Internet exchange; and Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series speed processing one billion packets per second assisting the work of human genome sequencing.

Since introducing its first knowledge-based processor to the market in the second quarter of 2002, NetLogic Microsystems has achieved many developmental milestones enabling the company to maintain its network technology leadership position and to raise the bar for technology innovation. In August 2004, the company announced the 100,000th knowledge-based processor shipment, and less than 15 months later, total shipments have quintupled. This momentum is expected to continue to fuel the company's growth and pave the way for even greater achievements.

About NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company located in Mountain View, Calif., designs, develops and markets high performance knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced Internet, corporate and other networking systems, such as routers, switches, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors use advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge database containing network and network user information to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Knowledge-based processors significantly enhance the ability of networking OEMs, to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as voice transmission over the Internet, or VoIP, virtual private networks, or VPNs, and streaming video and audio. NetLogic Microsystems also provides NPU interface knowledge-based processors solutions to Intel and AMCC network processors that accelerate design and development of leading-edge networking equipment. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650-961-6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Website at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

NetLogic Microsystems and the NetLogic Microsystems logo are trademarks of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding NetLogic Microsystems' business, including, but not limited to, revenue projections, which are not historical facts may be "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those projected in any such forward-looking statements depending on a variety of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, customer acceptance and demand for our products, the volume of sales to our principal product customers, manufacturing yields for our products, the timing of manufacture and delivery of product by our foundry suppliers, the length of our sales cycles, our average selling prices, the strength of the OEM networking equipment market and the cyclical nature of that market and the semiconductor industry. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in our Forms 10-Q and 10-K, as well as other reports that NetLogic Microsystems files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and NetLogic Microsystems undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.

Source: Business Wire

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