NetEffect selects GDA Technologies Inc as the Design services partner for next generation Multi Gigabit Ethernet solution

San Jose, California – October 11, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing IP & Electronic Design Services (EDS) company today announced that it was selected by NetEffect to provide hardware design services for NetEffect’s next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet solutions. GDA will provide a variety of services starting with design verification.

NetEffect’s solution is redefining high-performance data center server-to-server and server-to-storage communications. By providing a full implementation of iWARP enabled Ethernet, NetEffect is delivering uncompromising networking, storage and clustering performance on a single Ethernet fabric.

“Based on their extensive IC design and implementation experience we felt GDA Technologies would successfully deliver the services we need on time. In addition to their background in ASIC design, GDA Technologies’ experience in Structured ASIC and full COT design were considerations in choosing them as a partner.” Said Terry Hulett, Vice President of Engineering.

“We are extremely pleased to be selected as a design partner for NetEffect. Our proven methodologies and processes will help accelerate NetEffect’s product development“ said Ravi Thummarukudy VP and GM IC solutions , GDA Technologies inc .

About GDA Technologies, Inc.

GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCIExpress, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com.

About NetEffect

NetEffect, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a network solutions company developing products to enable the next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet. NetEffect’s products allow Ethernet to easily scale to meet data center demands, using next-generation iWARP RDMA Ethernet that is fully compatible with the Ethernet infrastructure found in today’s data centers. NetEffect’s investors are TL Ventures, Austin Ventures, JatoTech Ventures, Infinity Capital, Granite Ventures, TI Ventures and Duchossois Technology Partners. Visit www.neteffect.com for more information.