NetLogic Microsystems Wins the 2009 Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company Award from the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)

Mountain View, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2009 – NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that it has received the “Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company Award” for 2009 from the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). This prestigious award was presented at last week’s annual GSA Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., and recognized NetLogic Microsystems for its vision, strategy, leadership and success in the semiconductor industry among its peers of public semiconductor companies with annual revenues of up to $500 million.

GSA’s Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company award is designed to identify the company garnering the most respect of the industry in terms of its products, vision and future opportunities. The GSA has considered numerous factors for the awards, including the profitability, market capitalization, financial and product successes, demonstrated performance and likelihood of long-term success. In addition, the GSA invited members of the semiconductor community, including semiconductor companies, customers and partners, to cast ballots for the public semiconductor company they respect the most.

“We congratulate NetLogic Microsystems on being selected by its peers in the industry as the Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company,” said Jodi Shelton, co-founder and president of the GSA. “As a leading provider of high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for enterprise, telco infrastructure and data center networks, NetLogic Microsystems has clearly demonstrated a track record of successful execution and engineering excellence, as evidenced by its impressive financial performance.”

“We are honored to receive this top recognition from our peers in the semiconductor industry,” said Ron Jankov, president and chief executive officer at NetLogic Microsystems. “I would like to thank and congratulate all our employees worldwide for this significant accomplishment. This recognizes the many years of hard work and creativity that the NetLogic Microsystems and RMI teams have brought to this effort, and perhaps more importantly, this recognizes the great opportunity ahead of us for the new NetLogic Microsystems.”

About NetLogic Microsystems
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks. NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks. NetLogic Microsystems’ market-leading product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, content processors, network search engines, ultra low-power embedded processors and high-speed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY solutions. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). NetLogic Microsystems is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices and design centers throughout North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call +1-650-961-6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

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