Dongbu Electronics Launches Worldwide ShuttleChip Service; Korea's Largest Pure-Play Foundry Offers Low-Cost, Low-Risk Design Prototyping.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001

Dongbu Electronics today announced the worldwide availability of its ShuttleChip(TM) service, which will enable customers around the globe to reduce prototyping costs and speed time to market. Korea's largest pure-play semiconductor foundry is now accepting reservations for regularly scheduled CMOS wafer runs, the first of which will start with 0.25-micron technology in the third quarter. Reservations are also being accepted for regular 0.18-micron CMOS wafer runs, scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter.

Dongbu's ShuttleChip service offers customers the opportunity to verify their advanced designs in silicon prior to committing to volume production. ShuttleChip benefits begin with sharing the cost of a single mask set among multiple chipmakers during regular wafer runs. Besides minimizing pre-production costs, ShuttleChip customers can potentially achieve working silicon earlier. Customers can ultimately accelerate their time to market by verifying prototype chip designs or circuit elements such as digital/analog intellectual properties, cell libraries, and I/O functions.

"Our ShuttleChip service highlights our strong commitment to customer success through cost efficiency and faster time to market," said Peter Hillen, executive vice president of worldwide business development for Dongbu Electronics. "We aim to distinguish our ShuttleChip program by the high value we add in delivering a superb quality of service."

For more information on the ShuttleChip program, visit: http://www.dsemi.com/html/joint_shuttle_program.html.

To make reservations on the upcoming wafer runs:

-- North American customers are directed to phone P. Preston at 650/316-3939 or
email [e-mail];

-- Asian/European chipmakers are directed to phone K.S. Cho at [phone]
or email [e-mail].

Dongbu Electronics

Dongbu Electronics is a privately held wafer foundry specializing in advanced CMOS processing for logic, mixed-signal, embedded flash and system-on-chip designs. With worldwide business development offices based in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California, Dongbu operates a state-of-the-art pure-play foundry in Eumsung, Korea, near Seoul. Dongbu is a key global supplier within Korea's vibrant semiconductor manufacturing, test and assembly infrastructure. Major investors include Toshiba Corporation, the world's second largest semiconductor manufacturer, and the Dongbu Group, a multi-billion dollar industrial and financial conglomerate. For more information, visit www.dsemi.com.