Enea and AppliedMicro Team Up for Multicore

Enea and AppliedMicro Team Up for Multicore

Industry Leaders Working Together to Deliver Integrated Multicore
Platforms

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.  - January 31, 2011 - Enea (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA)
and AppliedMicro (NASDAQ:AMCC) today announced that they have formalized
and expanded their longstanding alliance, now focusing on delivering
advanced multicore hardware and software solutions to the communications
market.  The two companies are long-time collaborators in a number of
technical areas and have supported mutual customers on a number of
previous generation platforms.  Key aspects of the relationship include
product integration, joint go to market activities and exploring roadmap
alignment on their respective multicore product families.     

Initially, the companies will focus on delivering a highly optimized
integration of Enea's OSE®  Multicore Edition
(www.enea.com/ose (http://www.enea.com/ose)) realtime operating system
and AppliedMicro's Mamba single and dual core processors on
AppliedMicro's APM86290 reference development platforms.  The Mamba
devices are the first members of the PacketPro™ family, offering a
choice of either one or two 1.5GHz PowerPC® 465 cores, targeting
applications where performance, power management, security and
concurrency are key requirements.  Enea OSE Multicore Edition is
configured with a unique and innovative kernel design that combines the
advantages of both traditional Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and
Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP). 

“AppliedMicro's Mamba processors are attracting a great deal of interest
from the market, especially among tier 1 suppliers,” said Marcus
Hjortsberg, Vice President of Marketing at Enea.  “We are excited to be
working with an industry leader like AppliedMicro to deliver the
integrated multicore platforms that the market and our joint customers
are demanding,”

Other aspects of the alliance include the two companies pursuing joint
go to market activities including working together on marketing
programs, trade events and customer development.  In addition, Enea and
AppliedMicro will seek technical and roadmap alignment to ensure that
they are delivering the most optimized offerings to customers - speeding
development and enabling high-performance, differentiated products.    

“ENEA is an industry-leading supplier of software solutions for
multicore communications applications and the breakthrough features of
PacketPro family were designed specifically to meet the unique needs of
network equipment developers,” said Vinay Ravuri, Vice President of the
AppliedMicro Embedded Processing Business Unit. “The alliance that we
have formed today helps to ensure the availability of an ecosystem of
both hardware and software solutions. AppliedMicro is dedicated to a
long-term relationship with Enea in order to support system development
work.”

AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing solutions
for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB applications. With
a 30-year heritage as an innovator in high-speed connectivity and high
performance embedded processing, AppliedMicro employs patented Power
Architecture SoCs to provide energy efficient products that can deliver
up to a 40 percent reduction in power consumption without sacrificing
performance. AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are located in
Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located
throughout the world. For further information regarding AppliedMicro,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.apm.com (http://www.apm.com).

Applied Micro Corporate Contact:       
Tally Kaplan Porat        
Phone: +1 408.702.3139                     
Cell phone: +1 408.483.8370        
E-mail: tkaplan@apm.com (tkaplan@apm.com)          

Applied Micro Media Contact:
The Bernard Group
Tom Murphy
Phone: +1 831-661-0260
Cell phone: +1 831-402-4142
E-mail: tmurphy@bernardgroup.com (tmurphy@bernardgroup.com)

For more information

Nordic:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
catharina.paulcen@enea.com (catharina.paulcen@enea.com)

North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email:
chris.lanfear@enea.com (chris.lanfear@enea.com)

Asia Pacific:
Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: +46 8 507 140 00 or email:
fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com (fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com)

Europe:
Mia Åkerström, Marketing Communications, EMEA
Phone: +46 8 507 140 24 or email:
mia.akerstrom@enea.com (mia.akerstrom@enea.com)