Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Sunnyvale, California -- April 2, 2007 -- Faraday Technology Corporation (TAIEX: 3035) today announced that it has implemented the ARM926EJ-S™ hard core in UMC 0.13um process. It features ultra small size of 3.4mm2 (16KB/16KB I/D cache sizes) and extremely low power consumption with high performance which could reach 300MHz. Faraday also provides companion peripheral IPs, development platform for ARM926EJ-S™ to fulfill the market needs and accelerate the customer's design cycle. The hard core of ARM926EJ-S™ in UMC 0.13um is available now, and 90nm one will be ready in Q2, 2007.

Design implementation always plays an important role in Faraday's ASIC business flow. Based on well versed synthesis skill, physical design and verification expertise, Faraday achieved the optimized performance, area and power consumption ARM926EJ-S™ hardcore and succssfully delivered it in a very short period. Just as one example, Faraday is able to customize the development of cache memory, a critical factor in any microprocessor performance. As a result, the Faraday's ARM926 EJ-S™ is only 3.4 mm2 in size, and over 300 MHz in speed, compared to published TSMC offering, which is over 5 mm2 in size, and merely 240 MHz in speed.

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