Microchip Technology Uses Netli Application Acceleration and Content Delivery Services to Expand Global Business Opportunity.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NetLightning and NetliOffload Deliver Application Performance and Scale That Promotes Application Adoption, Eliminates Data Center Build-Outs

Netli(R), the fastest growing global service provider for accelerating applications and content over the Internet, today announced that Microchip Technology (NASDAQ:MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, has deployed Netli's NetLightning(R) and NetliOffload(TM) services to accelerate application and content delivery to customers in 55 markets and countries around the world. With Netli, Microchip has been able to ensure application availability and LAN-like response times for both internal- and external-facing applications while ensuring fast, secure delivery over the Internet with zero additional infrastructure build-out.

Microchip began using Netli's application acceleration services in 2005, incrementally adding new applications and services over the last 18 months. The Company is currently using NetLightning to accelerate multiple applications centrally hosted at the corporate headquarters in Chandler, Arizona. The applications support critical business processes, ranging from support and collaboration among engineers to business-to-business eCommerce and customer relationship management. In Asia and Europe, NetLightning consistently reduces response times by 6X, resulting in LAN-like responses. The end result is the ability to do business on a global scale from a central infrastructure, reducing cost and complexity while increasing productivity and revenue.

"The positive user experience that Netli enhances has played a key role in our ability to increase user adoption and loyalty for our e-commerce site, and expand from seven markets to 55," said Derek Jacobson, manager of Internet Systems for Microchip. "The LAN-like performance of Netli's services supports our strategy to enable customer self-sufficiency, reduces our support costs, shortens customer development cycles, and helps us attain faster time to revenue. We are extremely impressed with the performance of NetLightning, the reliability of NetliOffload, and the high quality of Netli's customer service." (See related release -- Netli delivers first unified platform for optimizing the global delivery of dynamic web applications, content and web services -- announced today.)

Microchip has realized great value and reduced cost and complexity with Netli's ability to provide integrated application acceleration and content delivery services with no changes to the infrastructure and no hidden professional-services costs.

"Companies like Microchip are looking for a trusted vendor that can deliver application acceleration and content delivery services for their business-critical applications," said Gary Messiana, Netli president and CEO. "The fact that Microchip has chosen Netli over our competitors is a testament to the superiority of our platform and our team delivering the service."

Netli's patented technology and services include NetLightning, NetliOffload, NetliContinuity(TM), and NetliView(TM). NetLightning, the company's flagship offering, delivers a business-quality Internet with global sub-second response times, high availability, and secure access to Web applications. NetliOffload is a transparent, next-generation static file and content offload service that can immediately deliver powerful advantages over other traditional content-delivery services, including enhanced security -- no need to replicate data across thousands of servers; superior performance -- no need to warm caches; and simplified administration -- no need to tag, upload, and manage content. NetliContinuity transparently enables failover, backup, or regulatory compliance for organizations with two or more data centers without having to install software or hardware devices. NetliView is a comprehensive measurement and reporting service, which enables organizations to continuously monitor the health of their business-critical, Netli-optimized applications.

About Netli

Netli is the fastest growing global service provider for accelerating applications and content over the Internet - enabling global eBusiness from centralized infrastructure. Netli provides network infrastructure as a service, on-demand optimizing application and content delivery while shifting bandwidth, computing, and storage requirements to Netli infrastructure. The result is better utilization of capital budgets and resources by transferring the cost, risk, complexity and management overhead of delivering enterprise-scale Web applications and content to Netli. The world's three biggest mobile phone suppliers, the largest technology reseller, the largest beauty products company, the two largest computer manufacturers, and the top two import auto manufacturers trust Netli for their application acceleration and content delivery needs. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

About Microchip Technology Inc.

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP) is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com.