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FSA Announces Winners for 2005 Awards
Monday December 12, 8:00 am ET
Awards Recognize Excellence in Fabless Sector

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2005--FSA, the voice of the global fabless business model, announces the winners for its 2005 awards, presented at the 2005 FSA Awards Dinner Celebration on Thursday, December 8, 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif.

The fabless community, suppliers and semiconductor financial and industry analysts selected the Most Respected Private and Public Fabless Company Award winners by identifying the company they most respect in terms of product, vision and future opportunities. This year's public company winner is Marvell and private company winner is AuthenTec.

FSA's Venture Capital Advisory Board selected the Fabless Start-Up to Watch Award winner by identifying the company that has demonstrated the greatest likelihood of achieving the next phase of growth. The 2005 winner is SiTime.

FSA and financial analysts evaluated the health of public fabless semiconductor companies traded on U.S. Exchanges by comparing a number of financial indices to determine the winner of this year's Best Financially Managed Company Award, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies.

Companies that doubled either revenue or net income over eight consecutive quarters ending June 2005 are eligible to receive the Outstanding Financial Performance by Public and Private Fabless Companies Awards. Public company winners include CSR; M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.; Marvell; NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.; NVIDIA Corporation; PortalPlayer, Inc. and Solomon Systech (International) Limited. Private company winners are Cavium Networks, Silicon Optix, Inc. and ViXS Systems, Inc.

Semiconductor financial analysts from two top-tier firms selected the Favorite Fabless Picks Awards based on historical and projected data. The 2005 winners are Broadcom Corporation, awarded by Mark Edelstone of Morgan Stanley, and Marvell, awarded by Arnab Chanda of Lehman Brothers.

For more detailed award criteria and a list of past award winners, visit www.fsa.org/awardsdinner.

The event was made possible through the support of this year's title sponsor, UMC, and additional sponsors including Agilent Technologies, AMI Semiconductor, ARM, ASE Group, ATI Technologies Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Conexant, Ernst & Young, Jazz Semiconductor, Marvell, Morgan Stanley, NVIDIA Corporation, Oracle, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, Reed Electronics Group, STATS ChipPAC, Synopsys, Teradyne, TSMC and Xilinx.

About FSA:

FSA is the voice of the global fabless business model. Incorporated in 1994, FSA positively impacts the growth and return on invested capital of this business model to enhance the environment for innovation. It provides a platform for meaningful global collaboration between fabless companies and their partners; identifies and articulates opportunities and challenges to enable solutions; and provides research, resources, publications and survey information. Members include fabless companies and their supply chain and service partners, representing more than 21 countries across the globe. www.fsa.org.



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