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IEEE Spectrum Magazine Ranks NetLogic Microsystems Among the Top 10 Semiconductor Companies with the Most Powerful Patent Portfolios First Annual IEEE Spectrum Survey Evaluated Over a Thousand Organizations Within 15 Industry Categories for the Most Influential Patent Portfolios Mountain View, Calif. – Dec. 18, 2006 – NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced that it has been recognized by IEEE Spectrum magazine’s first annual patent survey as having one of the top 10 most powerful patent portfolios in the semiconductor industry for 2006. The IEEE Spectrum is the flagship publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest professional technology association. Patents issued in 2005 to over 1,000 companies were analyzed for IEEE Spectrum by 1790 Analytics, a research firm that specializes in analyzing patent citations, to determine the patent “Pipeline Power” of each company’s patent portfolio. The Pipeline Power score is a measure of the overall strength and quality of a company’s patent portfolio instead of the mere quantity of patents a company acquires. It reflects the impact of a company’s intellectual property on the industry as a whole, the originality of the innovations, the growth in the number of patent grants, and the diversity of technologies upon which the patent portfolio is built. NetLogic Microsystems ranked first in “Pipeline Originality,” second in “Pipeline Impact” and tenth in the overall “Pipeline Power” in the survey’s semiconductor manufacturing category. Other semiconductor industry leaders that were recognized by IEEE Spectrum in the same category included Broadcom, Intel, Micron Technology, Sandisk Corporation, Texas Instruments and Xilinx. The Pipeline Originality score measures the variety of technologies upon which an organization’s patents build, based on the concept that inventions created by combining ideas from several different technologies tend to be more original than those that make incremental improvement upon the same technology. The Pipeline Impact score shows how frequently patents issued in 2005 cite a company’s patents issued from 2000 through 2004. This metric is based on citations both from the organization itself and from other organizations. It reflects both the extent to which a company is developing its own technology and the impact of its technology on others in the industry. “We are honored to be named with the likes of Intel and Broadcom as one of the most patent-savvy companies in the industry,” said Dimitrios Dimitrelis, vice president of engineering at NetLogic Microsystems. “This recognition is a testament to our employees’ dedication to innovation and technology leadership.” |
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About NetLogic Microsystems NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETL - News), 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 security appliances, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors use advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge or signature database to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Knowledge-based processors from NetLogic Microsystems significantly enhance the ability of networking OEMs to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as application-based routing, voice transmission over the Internet, or VoIP, unified threat management (UTM) network security, virtual private networks, or VPNs, and streaming video and audio. NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors are interoperable with industry-leading CPUs, NPUs and routing/switching processors. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650.961.6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site 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. ### |
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"Safe Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding NetLogic Microsystems’ business 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 the Company's reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, 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. |