Tensilica CEO to Present at 5th Annual Denali MemCon; Chris Rowen to Discuss Configurable Processors in SOC Designs.

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 present "Configurable Processors:
       Driving Efficient and Flexible Memory and I/O in SOC Designs"
       which discusses how the use of configurable processors, often
       many processors, each part of the SOC design, can implement
       multiple functions, sharing common resources efficiently, and
       reducing both design time and silicon cost.

What:  Denali MemCon is an industry event addressing the business,
       technology and system design strategies for semiconductor
       memory and storage. MemCon is sponsored by leading companies in
       the semiconductor memory and storage industries, and features
       presentations from industry experts on topics ranging from
       memory device technology, product roadmaps, market outlooks, to
       design techniques and silicon implementation strategies for
       memory storage systems.

When:  Dr. Chris Rowen will present on Wednesday, September 13, at
       2:30 p.m.
       The MemCon event takes place September 12-14, 2006.

Where: The MemCon event takes place at the Santa Clara Convention
       Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit
       http://www.denali.com/memcon/sanjose2006.html.

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, [phone], [e-mail].