Exponential Technology Bolsters Executive Team and Positions Company for Next Phase of Growth.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 1996--Exponential Technology, Inc., a leading microprocessor company committed to building the world's fastest microprocessor, today announced two significant additions to its executive team with the appointments of Rick Bergman as vice president of marketing, and Phil Green as director of engineering.

Rick Bergman brings more than 10 years of marketing and sales experience to Exponential. He will provide the primary marketing and business leadership for the company's high-performance microprocessor products and technologies. His role will include product line management, business development and marketing process management.

Before joining Exponential, Bergman served for 10 years at Texas Instruments, most recently as the worldwide marketing manager for the Personal Computer Systems Products Group, where he managed the worldwide strategic and tactical marketing for the company's x86 microprocessors and system logic. He also held a number of other sales and marketing positions at Texas Instruments. Prior to Texas Instruments, Bergman was a design engineer for IBM's Boca Raton facility in Florida.

Phil Green has more than 24 years of experience in hardware design, system integration, system verification and support. At Exponential, Green will manage the design implementation, simulation and design verification of the company's high-performance microprocessor product line.

Prior to joining Exponential, Green, in his role as manager of system integration, managed the bringup and verification effort at HaL Computer Systems. Before that he held a number of positions at Chips and Technologies, where he was responsible for the debug, system integration, compatibility and support of the company's Super 386 microprocessors. In the fourteen years prior to his work at Chips and Technologies, Green served at Amdahl Corporation in the Engineering and Field Support organizations.

"Exponential is poised for its next phase of growth," said Rick Shriner, president and CEO of Exponential. "The addition of Rick and Phil to the company bolsters a strong executive team which, coupled with a highly talented pool of engineering and support professionals, represents a unique combination of microprocessor expertise.

"This, combined with our innovative microprocessor design technology, will help Exponential carve out a position of leadership as the ultra-high-performance microprocessor company and will enable us to deftly meet the challenges ahead."

Rick Bergman and Phil Green are the latest additions to Exponential, which has experienced an increase in total personnel by nearly 32 percent over the last three months, necessitating that the company relocate its operations to a larger facility to accommodate this growth. (See Reader Contact Information section for new company address.)

Innovative Approach to Microprocessor Design

Exponential's PowerPC(TM) compatible microprocessor, which will be manufactured by an outside chip fabrication company, is expected to be the world's fastest when it arrives in early 1997, providing up to three times the speed of today's fastest Pentium(TM) microprocessors.

The microprocessor design is based on an innovative approach to a semiconductor manufacturing technology called "BiCMOS," which uses a well-established "bi-polar" process, known for its ultra-fast speed, to form the core logic of the processor. A more common "CMOS" process is used for on-chip memory. Other processors, including the Intel Pentium processors, use a BiCMOS process but build their core logic from CMOS.

Exponential's microprocessor will be targeted for use in PCs and servers, and will provide users with the ability to run compute-intensive applications such as multimedia and communications functions from the main processor.

Exponential Technology 

Exponential Technology, Inc., founded in June 1993, is committed to delivering high performance microprocessor technology using innovative design techniques and process technologies.

Reader Contact Information

Exponential has moved its operations to 2075 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95131. Readers who want more information about Exponential can call 408/441-6050 or visit the Exponential World Wide Web site at http://www.exp.com. -0-

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