Brion Named Finalist for 2006 ``Company of the Year - Small/Medium'' Ace Award.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Brion Technologies, the pioneer in Lithography-Driven Design & Manufacturing(TM), has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2006 Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards, presented by CMP Media's EE Times.

The EE Times ACE Awards recognize the people, companies and products that show leadership in the electronics industry, honoring those who are leading the way and making positive contributions - the real innovators of technology. The Company of the Year Award - Small/Medium (under $1 billion in sales) is given to companies that demonstrate excellence in business development and/or technology development processes with the potential to become a technical or market leader in the global electronics industry.

"Since our founding in 2002, Brion has quickly emerged as a global enterprise and leader in the computational lithography space, by bringing sophisticated image computing to the challenging tasks of simulating today's advanced lithography," said Eric Chen, chief executive officer of Brion. "Our selection as an ACE Award finalist testifies to the strength of our organization, the expertise of the Brion team and our leadership in driving innovations into the market place."

"Brion has demonstrated outstanding leadership in developing innovative answers to some of the biggest design-for-manufacturing challenges today," said Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief and publisher of EE Times. "Our Company of the Year Award recognizes leaders in our industry and Brion's tremendous results make them a strong candidate for this honor."

Brion's Tachyon lithography modeling platform, noted for its unmatched accuracy and speed for full-chip verification, is a hybrid architecture that combines the strengths of image-based simulation with the polygon- and contour-based geometry processing used by conventional EDA tools for physical design. This hybrid approach enables best-in-class accuracy, comprehensive coverage, predictable run times and flexible user controllability. Since the Tachyon platform first shipped in 2003, thousands of production circuit layers have been processed by Tachyon systems worldwide.

Award winners will be announced during the EE Times ACE Awards Gala on April 4, 2006.

About EE Times ACE Awards

The EE Times ACE Awards were created to recognize the people, companies and products that show leadership in the electronics industry and will honor those who are leading the way and making positive contributions - the creators of technology. Awards will be presented at the second annual awards gala held on April 4, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel San Jose during CMP Media's Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, at the San Jose Convention Center. To purchase tickets and find out more about the event, visit www.eetimes.com/ace

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About Brion Technologies

Brion Technologies, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in Lithography-Driven Design & Manufacturing(TM). Founded in 2002, the privately held company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Brion's Tachyon(TM) platform, a highly accurate and ultra-fast data and simulation engine, enables a unique set of capabilities that address the interrelated challenges of design, photomask making and wafer printing in semiconductor microlithography. The company remains the leader in the optical proximity correction (OPC) verification market. For further information, visit Brion Technologies' Web site at www.brion.com or call [phone].

Lithography-Driven Design & Manufacturing and Tachyon are trademarks of Brion Technologies, Inc.