Aspex Technology Expands Marketing Team; Move Designed in Anticipation of Fall Product Launch.

Business/Technology Editors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001

Aspex Technology, a fabless semiconductor company designing high-performance programmable and scaleable digital signal processing (DSP) products based here, today announced the expansion of its marketing team with the appointment of two experienced product marketing managers.

Michael L. Abell, located in the Mountain View, Calif., office, is responsible for developing the Aspex xDSL market strategy. Jacqui McCready works from the Uxbridge, U.K., office and is responsible for developing the company's 3G market strategy for the company's upcoming product launch. Both report to Graham Dodgson, executive vice president of sales and marketing.

"Mike and Jacqui bring a proven track record in the communications industry," says Dodgson. "I look to working with them as we expand our marketing efforts to meet the DSP industry demands for a new, more powerful DSP chip."

Abell has a proven history in the networking and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining Aspex Technology, he worked for empowerTel Networks as a senior hardware manager responsible for developing Gateway product platform specifications. Before empowerTel Networks, he spent 11 years running and managing his own Telephony consulting company, working with the US and International Telephony Industries. Abell has also held positions at Sunrise Telecom as a senior product marketing engineer, Dallas Semiconductor as a field application engineer and DSP Group as a product line manager. Abell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and EE graduate work from the University of Santa Clara/Naval Postgraduate School. He has also co-authored technical articles for ICC.

Jacqui McCready has a proven track record in product managing in the 3G-market segment and has a strong background in hardware and software development cycles. Prior to joining Aspex, McCready worked for Agere Systems as product marketing manager for its 2.5G wireless products. Before Agere, she spent three years at Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group as product manager and has also held positions at Madge Networks and Motorola Semiconductors. McCready holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics systems and microcomputer engineering from Glasgow University in Scotland, where she graduated with honors.

About Aspex Technology

Aspex, located in Mountain View, Calif., is a venture-backed, privately owned fabless semiconductor company with more than 450 engineering years of research and development in high-performance computing architecture. Aspex, drawing on technology developed at Brunel University in the United Kingdom, has developed a scalable computer architecture proven with a number of customers over many years, called the Associative String Processor (ASP). It offers standalone ASP-based devices, IP cores and development and evaluation systems. The ASP architecture affords high-performance, scalability and the software programmable flexibility required in current and next-generation telecommunications and networking infrastructure, particularly third generation wireless and xDSL equipment.

Headquarters are located at: 2103 Landings Drive, Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Telephone: [phone]. Facsimile: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. Aspex Technology can be found on the Internet at: http://www.aspextechnology.com.

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