WiQuest Strengthens Global Market Readiness; Bolsters Local Sales and Engineering Support in Japan, South Korea, and Greater China Markets.

ALLEN, Texas -- WiQuest Communications, Inc. a leading fabless semiconductor company developing complete Ultrawideband (UWB) solutions, continues to position itself as the total solution leader in the global market by announcing today the signing of sales distribution agreements with local manufacturers' representatives in Japan, South Korea and Greater China. The announcement reinforces WiQuest's commitment to provide local sales and engineering support for its strategic customers as they begin to ramp production during 2006.

Agreements have been signed with Clavis Company, a subsidiary of Macnica which will represent WiQuest in Japan, TESCO Incorporated, will represent WiQuest in South Korea and Wintech Microelectronics Co., Ltd., will represent WiQuest in the Greater China area including Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong. The long-term sales agreements will enhance the respective companies' positions as market leaders providing complete UWB technology solutions.

"WiQuest is building a world-class team of employees and partners as we bring our industry-leading UWB solutions to market. WiQuest is committed to providing the most comprehensive, worldwide sales and support, and ensuring that our solutions meet our customers' requirements," said Mr. Todd Brown, vice president of sales at WiQuest. "The signing of these agreements constitutes an important step for us in fulfilling that goal. Clavis, TESCO and Wintech are considered to be the top manufacturers' representatives in their respective regions and we are proud to have them as part of the WiQuest team as we continue to build our global team throughout 2006."

"WiQuest's announcement of the industry's first gigabit UWB chipset, evaluation kit, and wireless USB reference designs put the company squarely at the front of the industry," said Eric Chang, President of Wintech Microelectronics. "The availability of WiQuest's complete and highly-integrated solution is well-timed to meet the market demand in Asia, putting us in a position to offer our customers leading UWB and Wireless USB products."

WiQuest recently announced the availability of its WQST110 and WQST101 chipset, the industry's first commercially-available, high-performance silicon delivering wireless communication at speeds of up to one gigabit-per-second. The WQST110 includes a WiMedia-based UWB media access controller (MAC), physical layer (PHY) baseband processor and integrated USB 2.0 high-speed transceiver thereby making the solution cost-effective, compact and efficient. The WQST101 is a direct conversion UWB RF transceiver. WiQuest also announced the availability of its WQST100EVK Evaluation Kit and the wireless USB Adapter, 4-port Hub and mini PCI Express card reference designs, based on the Certified Wireless USB technology from the USB Implementers Forum. These reference designs offer the most complete UWB solution on the market today.

About Clavis Company, a division of Macnica Inc.

Since its establishment in 1972, Macnica Inc. has specialized in the supply of wide a variety of high-value-added electronic parts and equipment, particularly semiconductors, to the electronics, information and communications industries. The company is justly known as a leader in the high-technology fields in which they operate. In recent years, Macnica has expanded its lineup to provide in-depth technical support to customers in addition to the supply of devices. Its customers include leading electrical and electronic products manufacturers. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has headquarters in Yokohama. Its subsidiaries are located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore and the USA. For more information, visit the Clavis Company website at www.clv.macnica.co.jp.

About TESCO Incorporated

TESCO has worked with "Complete Customer Satisfaction" as a company motto from the beginning and it will not be changed. TESCO strives to contribute to enhancing international competitiveness to domestic manufacturers by providing advanced electronics and communication products from all over the world in a timely manner. TESCO Incorporated is located at Koron Tripolis B/2402, GumGok-dong, 210 Bundang-Gu, Sungnam-city, Kyoungkido 463-805, Korea. The phone number is [phone]. For more information, visit the TESCO Incorporated website at www.tescoinc.co.kr.

About Wintech Microelectronics

Wintech Microelectronics was established in 1994, with distribution of well-known electronics components as its main business. Wintech Electronics focuses on in-house development, encourages innovation, and endorses a team concept. Wintech plays a professional distributor role to build up the linkage between component manufacturers and customers. With its value-added support, Wintech is able to help customers reduce R&D expenditures and at the same time assist component manufacturers to define the right product for the market. Wintech has the right direction of meeting customer needs and recognizes the market trend development to build a well-organized distribution channel. Wintech Microelectronics is located at 4F, No. 738, Chung Cheng Road, Chung Ho Taipei 235, Taiwan. The phone number is [phone]. For more information, visit the website at www.wtmec.com.

About WiQuest Communications

WiQuest Communications, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and supplies complete ultrawideband solutions to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems companies worldwide. The company builds leading-edge products for high-speed wireless communications using WiMedia ultrawideband technology and wireless USB specifications.

Founded in September 2003, WiQuest continues to build on its strong team comprised of semiconductor and system design veterans from companies including Alantro Communications, Nokia, Qualcomm, IBM, Motorola, Freescale, Toshiba, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments and others. The background of this organization includes hundreds of years of collective industry semiconductor and system experience, resulting in dozens of successful high-volume product implementations including Wireless LAN, DSL chipsets and Ethernet switches. WiQuest employees are recognized not only for their industry backgrounds but also for their visibility and leadership in standards and regulatory work, including the IEEE, the Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiMedia Alliance.

WiQuest is headquartered at 601 Century Parkway, Suite 110, Allen, Texas 75013. The phone number is [phone] and fax number is [phone]. WiQuest Taiwan is located at 23F., No. 105, Sec. 2, Tun Hua South Road, Da An District, Taipei City, Taiwan R.O.C. The phone number in Taiwan is [phone]. For more information, visit the website at www.WiQuest.com.