Chip Express, Silicon Valley's fastest growing integrated circuit company, appoints Howard Brodsky as vice president of finance; 20-year business/finance veteran, to move laser programmable gate array (LPGA) IC company to its next growth phase.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 1995--Chip Express announced the appointment of Howard Brodsky to the newly-created position of vice president of finance.

Brodsky comes to Chip Express with over 20 years of broad technology industry experience in a variety of manufacturing environments, including fab and fabless semiconductor operations and process manufacturing.

He plans to assist this fastest growing Silicon Valley IC company in continuing its high growth and will create systems and infrastructure to help transition Chip Express from an emerging company to an established, highly successful, high-growth company.

Brodsky reports to company president and chief executive officer, Zvi Or-Bach.

Before joining Chip Express, Brodsky was corporate controller for C-Cube Microsystems Inc., where he was a member of the management team responsible for C-Cube's successful IPO.

He has seven years experience in the semiconductor industry and brings an additional 20 years experience as controller/financial manager for such billion-dollar corporations as Loral Inc., Schlumberger Ltd. and Gould Inc.

Brodsky said: "I joined Chip Express in order to take on another challenge in another emerging company. My first priority is to organize and structure the company's finance, human resources and information systems to help facilitate the continued dynamic growth of our company."

Or-Bach, Chip Express president, said: "Howard comes to us with a demonstrated track record of creating and managing highly effective and efficient financial and administration systems.

"We expect that he will be a significant contributor in helping us transition from a successful emerging company into a highly successful established company in this dynamic industry."

Brodsky was raised in Morgantown, W.Va., where he spent his first 21 years. He obtained a BSBA from West Virginia University (1975) and an executive MBA from Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio in 1984.

Now a resident of San Martin, Calif., Brodsky lives with his wife and two children on property where the family keeps lots of pets: "at least two of everything", including quarter horses, which have become a hobby that keep Brodsky traveling the Northern California Quarter Horse Circuit; basketball is his second favorite pastime.

He is a member of the Financial Executive Institute and the Controller's Council of the Institute of Management Accountants.

Chip Express Corp. is the world leader in the development and application of laser-based technology for the fabrication of high-performance, high-density ASIC devices.

The company offers a complete ASIC time-to-market solution. Chip Express provides a 24-hour laser-cut Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) prototype called Laser Programmable Gate Array (LPGA), a low-volume fast-turn production service using its proprietary OneMask technology and cost-competitive high-volume production using its proprietary Hard Array technology.

Chip Express delivers a significant advantage over traditional gate array suppliers with accelerated time-to-market, competitive prices and very low risk.

From its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., the privately-held Chip Express organization services leading edge computer, communications and consumer companies worldwide, including Apple, HP, IBM, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, Sony and Hughes.

CONTACT: Chip Express Corp., Santa Clara

Tsipi Landen, 408/988-2445, Ext. 153

or

Roger Grace Associates, San Francisco

Roger Grace, 415/821-6881