Tensilica CEO to Present Keynote at MPSoC '06; Chris Rowen to Discuss ''The Reinvention of the Microprocessor''.

Tensilica, Inc.:

Who:    As the provider of the broadest line of controller, CPU and
        specialty DSP processors on the market today, Tensilica, Inc.
        is recognized as an industry leader with its low-power,
        benchmark proven processors. Dr. Chris Rowen, president and
        CEO of Tensilica, will discuss new architectures and methods
        that may ultimately transform general computing architectures
        through their essential advantages in silicon efficiency and
        energy consumption in his presentation on "The Reinvention of
        the Microprocessor."

Who:    MPSoC is a multidisciplinary forum bringing together key R&D
        participants from IP, fabless, semiconductor, system houses
        and the design industry to build a vision of the next step in
        integrated system design.

When:   Dr. Chris Rowen will present on Tuesday, August 15, at 8:30
        a.m. The MPSoC event takes place August 14-18, 2006.

Where:  The MPSoC event takes place at the Stanley Hotel in Estes
        Park, Colorado. For more information, visit
        http://tima.imag.fr/mpsoc/.

About Dr. Chris Rowen

Dr. Chris Rowen is president and chief executive officer of Tensilica. He founded Tensilica in July 1997 to develop automatic generation of application-specific microprocessors for high-volume communication and consumer systems. He was a pioneer in the development of RISC architecture at Stanford in the early 1980s and helped start MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. in 1984, where he served in a variety of functions including as vice president for Microprocessor Development and managed MIPS in Europe. When Silicon Graphics purchased MIPS, he became the technology and market development leader for Silicon Graphics Europe. In 1996, he was hired by Synopsys to be the vice president and general manager of the Design Reuse Group. This experience helped him realize the limitations of the current EDA mindset and the shortcomings of existing embedded processor cores for large-scale system-on-chip (SOC) design, and led him to the founding of Tensilica. He received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

About Tensilica

Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at more than 90 companies including industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com.

Editors' Notes:

--Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

--Tensilica's announced licensees include ALPS, AMCC (JNI Corporation), Aquantia, Astute Networks, Atheros, ATI, Avago Technologies, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics, Lucid Information Technology, Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect, Neterion, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NVIDIA, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., Pnp Network Technologies, sci-worx, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, u-Nav Microelectronics, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) and WiQuest Communications.

--Editors interested in an interview with the company should contact: Erika Powelson, 831-424-1811, [e-mail].