Mark-Eric Jones Joins MoSys as Vice President & General Manager of Intellectual Property; IP Professional to Build Licensing Business for Industry-Leading Embedded Memory Technology.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--MoSys, Inc. today announced the appointment of Mark-Eric Jones as Vice President & General Manager of Intellectual Property.

The appointment strengthens the company's commitment to serve the emerging embedded memory market with its industry-leading ultra-high performance RAM technology. Jones will be playing a key role in building Mosys's Intellectual Property licensing business and is based at the corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale.

Prior to joining MoSys, Jones headed up the "Inventra" IP Products business at Mentor Graphics Corporation. Earlier, as CEO of 3Soft, he founded and grew this Intellectual Property company until its acquisition at the beginning of 1996 by Mentor Graphics. Jones brings over ten years general management and marketing experience from the Intellectual Property industry. Jones was a founder of, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of, RAPID, the Intellectual Property business association.

"We are thrilled to have Mark-Eric Jones join MoSys," stated Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu, Chairman and CEO. "He brings unique experience as one of the pioneers of the Intellectual Property business model and will be instrumental in developing MoSys' technology licensing business," added Dr. Hsu.

"By adopting an Intellectual Property licensing model, MoSys can make its highly-differentiated volume production-proven RAM technology available to designers in the rapidly growing communications, computing and consumer markets" commented Mark-Eric Jones, adding "I am excited by the compelling advantages that the MoSys technology will bring to the new generation of System-on-Chip (SOC) designers."

About MoSys

MoSys, Inc. is the industry pioneer of high performance memory technologies such as multibanking, multibank caching, double data rate, fast cycle access, data streaming, terminated reduced-swing I/O switching, source-synchronous (wave-pipelining) data access, PLL-assisted clocking, ultra-fast charge sensing and ultra-fast memory cycle time. Many of these technologies are patented and incorporated in the Company's high performance Multibank DRAM, MCache, ultra-fast SGRAM and ultra-low power 1T-SRAM products and building blocks. More information about MoSys' products is available on http://www.mosys.com.

MoSys, MDRAM, MCache and Multibank are registered trademarks of MoSys, Inc., 1T-SRAM is a trademark of MoSys, Inc.

Inventra and 3Soft are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation.