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Apache Increases Global Customer Adoption and Surpasses First Quarter Sales Expectations

MOUNTAIN VIEW , Calif. - May 4, 2004 - Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in physical power integrity solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) designs, surpassed its first quarter sales goals and grew by more than 25% in sales from the previous quarter. Q1 marks the fifth consecutive quarter of record results.

Apache's full-chip dynamic physical power flow, which includes their flagship product RedHawk-SDL gained adoption in Q1 from major global customers such as AMD, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and a leading wireless company. In addition to new customer adoption, existing customers continued to invest in RedHawk-SDL for Dynamic Voltage Drop (DvD) analysis and I/O SSO verification to help identify dynamic power integrity issues that are missed by the "static-only" approach.

"Customers are adopting Apache's dynamic physical power flow because it solves a pressing need for today's designs, especially at 130nm and below and for those using low power design techniques," stated Andrew Yang, CEO of Apache. "RedHawk-SDL, with capability for full-chip transient, SPICE-accurate, DvD analysis, is the only solution available for identifying power grid failures due to dynamic hot spots and their impact on timing."

About RedHawk-SDL

Apache's flagship RedHawk-SDL fills the critical missing link for physical power flows in 130nm, 90nm, and 65nm SoC designs. It provides the only full-chip static and Vectorless DynamicTM physical power solution that is capable of addressing dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching outputs (SSO) for core, memory, clock and I/O, as well as the effects of on-chip inductance, package models, and decoupling capacitance.

RedHawk-SDL enables designers to examine the power and timing impacts on a SoC caused by physical implementation decisions made from the early design stage through final verification. RedHawk-SDL delivers dramatic speedup with transistor-level accuracy. It also addresses verification issues associated with low-power techniques such as leakage current, power gating, multiple voltages and multiple thresholds.

About Apache Design Solutions

Apache is an EDA software supplier of innovative next-generation silicon integrity platforms for low-power, high-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. By considering all sources of noise that impacts the design, such as power, signal, package / system IO, substrate, and temperature, Apache’s silicon signoff platform enables designers of leading networking, wireless, communication, consumer, and semiconductor companies to detect, fix, and prevent design weaknesses that can result in reduced yield or failed silicon. Apache’s vendor neutral platform enables designers to adopt any industry’s standard physical design flow and is certified by TSMC’s 5.0 and 6.0 Reference Flow (NYSE: TSM). Apache has direct sales and support offices worldwide with over 40 customers, including 7 of the top 10 semiconductor companies.

Apache Design Solutions, NSPICE, RedHawk, PsiWinder, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.

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