Design Technology Council Announces New Chairman for 2006-2007 Term.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Design Technology Council (DTC), a group of semiconductor and system design companies, today announced that Rahul Goyal, director of EDA Business for Intel Corporation, has been elected as its new chairman. Mr. Goyal and his team are responsible for Intel's strategic engagements with the EDA industry and academia. Among other things, his team drives Intel's strategic equity investments in design & CAD, university research in design sciences, EDA strategy and supplier engagements. Mr. Goyal has been with Intel for over 16 years, and is also a member of the board of directors of Si2, Inc.

The DTC is comprised of representatives from AMD, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Corporation, Intel, Infineon, LSI Logic, Philips Semiconductors, and Sun Microsystems. Goyal's term as chairman runs from June 2006 - June 2007. As chairman of the DTC, Goyal has assumed the responsibility of overseeing the strategic direction of the council.

Outgoing chairman, Dale Hoffman, Director of Product Development Offerings for IBM Technology Collaboration Solution business unit, comments: "Rahul is to be congratulated for this important recognition from his peers as a result of his long service to the EDA user community. The DTC has had some significant impact on the industry over the last several years. Recently, the DTC was instrumental in starting industry-wide cooperative efforts such as the Open Modeling Coalition, for improved integration and adoption of advanced library features and capabilities, such as statistical timing."

Mr. Goyal states, "I would like to thank Dale for his outstanding service to the DTC as its chair. I am looking forward to working with my industry peers in setting the strategic direction for DTC. We are exploring opportunities in several areas where collaborative efforts are necessary to tackle the issues we collectively face."

Mr. Goyal will assume his role of chairman at a DTC meeting on July 24 at the Design Automation Conference, where several issues critical to the semiconductor industry will be discussed.

About the DTC

The Design Technology Council (DTC) is a group of semiconductor and system design companies, which acts as a voice of the EDA customer base to promote strategic solutions through the identification of gaps between projected EDA capabilities and the future needs of the semiconductor and system design community. The DTC is an industry organization, which operates under the auspices of Si2. Members include: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY), Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Infineon (NYSE:IFX), Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI), Philips Semiconductors (NYSE:PHG), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW).

About Si2

Si2 is an organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on improving the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured in order to speed time-to market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable collaboration through a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 focuses on developing practical technology solutions to industry challenges. Si2 represents over 100 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world.

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