Chip Express Selects RapidChip as Sales Rep for France; Expands Technical Support and Sales in European Markets.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2002 Chip Express today announced the appointment of RapidChip SARL SARL South African Radio League SARL Société Anonyme à Responsabilité Limitée (French: limited liability company) SARL Salem Animal Rescue League (Salem, NH) SARL Sociedade Anónima de Responsabilidade Limitada to represent the company's ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. product line in France. RapidChip will enhance Chip Express' service to French customers by providing local technical and business support. Services offered by RapidChip include RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; signoff, design specification entry, custom engineering tasks, and obsolete chip netlist translation. Other support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services range from project evaluation and quoting, to logistics and financing. Chip Express' ASIC products are designed to mitigate risk, shorten development time, and reduce overall project cost to customers. The company's Modular Array technology enables cycle times as short as one week for prototype builds and provides a fast production ramp rate. Modular Array technology enables chip customization to be implemented in only three programmable metal layers, reducing mask costs by a factor of ten and wafer processing time by more than 70%. "Chip Express's advanced Modular Array technology -- combined with RapidChip's world-class engineering support -- helps customers achieve their ASIC objectives in very short cycles, leading to faster time-to-market and greater profitability," said Mr. Jean-Francois Lambert, founder and sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → of RapidChip. "We are pleased to add RapidChip to our extensive list of European sales representatives," said Alon Kapel, vice president European sales and marketing for Chip Express. "Mr. Lambert has managed Chip Express ASIC lines in France for many years, contributing to our strong growth and many successful projects in the European telecom, automotive, wireless, avionic, and industrial markets." Chip Express products are offered through a worldwide network of direct sales and representatives. The company serves hundreds of customers in a diverse group of electronic markets, including networking and telecommunications, PC peripherals and multimedia, industrial, military, and aerospace. Chip Express offers a family of products at each process geometry that addresses different combinations of gate count and memory requirements. The latest addition to the Modular Array product line is a 0.25um family that is manufactured under contract at UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia . The 0.25um products provide exceptional gate density, fast SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory , 2.5V operation, and advanced high-speed serial I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output capabilities. About RapidChip RapidChip, a French representative and distributor company, offers its clients access to world-class IC design expertise and technologies. The company, headquartered in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, focuses on digital integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ASIC) providing fast turn-around-time. RapidChip offers a full range of design services from system specification to tape out including RTL design service, scan insert, ATPG ATPG Automatic Test Pattern Generation ATPG Automatic Test Program Generator , design conversion, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. migration. Combining design and manufacturing supports, RapidChip offers a comprehensive partnership to its customers, serving the telecommunications, industrial, military and space markets. Bringing top class design services, RapidChip works in close cooperation with customers to satisfy their most stringent systems on chip requirements. About Chip Express Chip Express is the leading manufacturer of fast-turn ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). The company's innovative, patented technology also enables consolidation of tooling associated with wafer manufacture, reducing both time-to-market and initial production cost by a factor of ten compared with competitive techniques. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Chip Express is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , founded in the U.S. in 1989. This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current information available to Chip Express Corporation as of the date hereof. These statements are based on Management's current expectations and may ultimately prove to be incorrect. Factors which could cause future results to differ materially from the results discussed, implied, or forecasted in the forward-looking statements include delays in scheduled product availability dates (which could result from various occurrences including development or testing difficulties, software errors, shortages in appropriately skilled engineers and project management problems); the risks inherent in the commercialization of the Company's anticipated products and services; shifts in customer or market demand for the Company's anticipated products; the impact of competitive products and pricing; and possible disruptive effects of organizational changes, including retaining key personnel and coordinating operations. Chip Express Corp. assumes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Note to Editors: All other products or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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