Elliptic Semiconductor welcomes Taiwan's foremost IP Distribution Company – Maojet to Partners' Program

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July 26, 2004 – Taipei, Taiwan and Ottawa, Canada. Elliptic Semiconductor, an innovator in broadband and wireless semiconductor IP products, announced today that Maojet Technology Corp. has become a member of its Elliptic Alliance Partner Program (EAPP) and Elliptic’s exclusive distributor in Taiwan. Maojet distributes both semiconductor IP and EDA tools from leading companies such as Virage Logic, Sonics, Nassda Corporation, and Mentor Graphics.

“Elliptic's range of secure communications IP and software is appealing to Taiwan’s ASIC design houses and fabless semiconductor companies. Maojet has been dealing with semiconductor IP for over ten years now. There are many opportunities for Elliptic products in Taiwan.,” said Mr. Ted Tsai, President of Maojet.

”Maojet is the premiere semiconductor IP distributor in Taiwan.” said Al Hawtin, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Elliptic Semiconductor. “The combination of semiconductor IP and EDA tools is perfect as a distribution model as it allows Maojet to maintain contact with the entire customer base of key decision makers in Taiwan’s booming fabless semiconductor industry and original design manufacturers.”

Under this agreement, Maojet will distribute Elliptic’s entire family of virtual components, which encompass ultra-low power TCP/IP offload engine with integrated IPsec and SLL security and its recently announced evaluation system.. In addition, the complete family of highly optimized ciphers, hashing engines, random number generator, large math blocks and supporting software which allow customers to address the requirements of security standards such as 802.11i, 802.16 and 802.1ae are now available to Taiwanese customers.

About Maojet Technology Corp.

Maojet Technology Corporation provides Taiwan and China-based electronics OEMs with technical engineering services, customer service and customer support for a variety of silicon IP and EDA products from leading electronics and semiconductor IP suppliers. The company, headquartered in Taipei, also has branch offices in Hsin-Chu City and Shanghai City, China. Through its commitment to investment in technology, capital assets, and people, Maojet provides superior service to their customers and offers superior promotion, sales and service for silicon IP product lines. For more information, please visit the Maojet web site, www.maojet.com.tw.

About Elliptic Semiconductor Inc.

Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada - Elliptic Semiconductor Inc (www.ellipticsemi.com) provides semiconductor IP cores and software for TCP/IP offload and embedded security. The patented AdaptivEdgeTM flow-through architecture used by Elliptic greatly reduces the power required to do these functions in WLAN, Ultra-wideband, Bluetooth, W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, EDGE and other wireless data services. Alternatively, the engines can be applied to protocol and security needs at 100-1000 Mbps speeds in Ethernet switches, gateways, routers and access points where throughput is paramount. Elliptic offers complete system solutions including the semiconductor IP blocks as well as supporting embedded and system software.