Silicon Motion Licenses Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express Controller to Accelerate SoC Design

High-Quality, UNH-IOL Certified IP and Superior Technical Support to Help Silicon Motion Accelerate SoC Development Time and Reduce Risk

MILPITAS, CA-- June 02, 2014 -- Mobiveil, Inc, a fast growing supplier of silicon intellectual property (SIP), platforms and IP-enabled design services, today announced that Silicon Motion, a world leader in high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions to OEMs and other customers in the mobile storage and mobile communications markets, has licensed Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express controller IP for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. This agreement gives silicon motion access to Mobiveil's highly configurable, UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab) certified IP. Mobiveil's leadership in the fast growing PCI Express based Flash storage market enables Silicon Motion to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for their semiconductor designs.

"Access to Mobiveil's UNH certified NVM Express IP helps us keep pace with the complexities of this new standard and integrate our new generation SOC devices for the mobile storage market," said Kevin Yeh, Vice President of Algorithm and Technology at Silicon Motion. "We chose Mobiveil because its IP Architecture, Configurability, protocol certification record, extensive system level validation process and superior technical support. This will enable our designers to focus their efforts on delivering differentiated products to the market."

"Mobiveil's mission is to develop complex, high quality semiconductor IPs that enables the customers to accelerate their SoC designs. We look forward to many opportunities to collaborate with a leading edge semiconductor company like Silicon Motion," said Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO of Mobiveil. "As a trusted IP partner for many semiconductor companies worldwide, we are constantly striving to provide high quality, silicon proven, highly configurable IP solutions that help customers such as Silicon Motion integrate critical functionality into their SoCs without risk and improved time-to-market."

About Mobiveil, Inc.

Mobiveil is a fast‐growing technology company that specializes in development of Silicon Intellectual Properties, platforms and solutions for the networking, storage and enterprise markets. Mobiveil team leverages decades of experience in delivering high‐quality, production‐proven, highspeed serial interconnect Silicon IP cores and custom and standard form factor hardware boards to leading customers worldwide. For the PCI Express based Flash storage market, Mobiveil has developed NVMStor™ , a subsystem comprising GPEX™ (PCI Express Controller), UNEX™ (NVM Express Controller) , UMMC™ (Universal Memory Controller) and Flash Controller. Mobiveil is headquartered in the Silicon Valley with engineering development centers located in Milpitas, CA, Chennai and Bangalore, India, and sales offices and representatives located in US, Europe, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and People Republic of China. For more information, please visit http://www.mobiveil.com