Elliptic Semiconductor Announces Agreement with Voyageur Technical Sales Inc.

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25 August 2003 - Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Elliptic Semiconductor, an early stage company in the broadband wireless semiconductor market, announced today it has reached an agreement with Voyageur Technical Sales Inc. to represent Elliptic products in eastern North America. Voyaguer Technical Sales is one of the largest independent representative organizations in the world focusing on semiconductor Intellectual Property, with offices in San Jose California, Sacramento California, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Canada, Raleigh North Carolina, and Boston Massachusetts.

Gord Harling, President and CEO of Elliptic Semiconductor said, "It is a pleasure to work with the team at Voyageur Technical Sales. They have a great mix of skills including marketing, sales and technical support which is fundamental to succeeding in the semiconductor intellectual property market which is conducted primarily through the technical team in our customer base. We are confident that Voyageur Technical Sales will help us with design wins, support design teams at target accounts and accelerate our business growth."

Rob Cook, President and CEO of Voyageur stated "Elliptic has emerged quickly as a developer of quality semiconductor products, and we are very pleased to be selected as one of Elliptic's demand creation partners. Elliptic's efforts in the wireless communications segment are very synergistic with Voyageur's customer base, and our other developer partners."

About Elliptic Semiconductor
Headquartered in Ottawa, Elliptic Semiconductor Inc (www.ellipticsemi.com) provides semiconductor products for low power designs of packet offload and security processing for wireless and handheld devices. The products offload the host processor and greatly reduce the power required for data transmission in 802.11, Ultra-wideband, Bluetooth, W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, EDGE and many other wireless data services. Working in the most advanced semiconductor processes, Elliptic Semiconductor will become the leading player in the emerging semiconductor intellectual property market.

About Voyageur Technical Sales
Voyageur Technical Sales Inc. (VTSI) is the only company that focuses solely on providing distribution and sales services to the semiconductor IP industry with locations across North America. Voyageur was formed in September 2001 by a group of semiconductor industry veterans, who prior to forming VTSI, were involved in the sales and marketing of IP and associated design services across North America. Voyageur is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has offices in semiconductor centers across the continent. The company is privately funded. For more information, please visit www.voyageurtech.com.