ARM and Mindspeed(R) Address Next-Generation Home Gateways With Multiprocessing Technology

CAMBRIDGE, England and NEWPORT BEACH, California, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaboration Builds on Success of ARM Powered Mindspeed Comcerto(R) 
100 Platform

ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] and Mindspeed Technologies 
(Nasdaq: MSPD) today announced an ongoing collaboration designed to address 
the needs of broadband service providers delivering triple- (voice, data, 
video) and quad-play (+ cellular) applications to homes and small businesses.

The collaboration has already resulted in the successful development and
launch last year of the Mindspeed Comcerto 100 series of broadband gateway
processors. The Comcerto 100 is a single chip solution based on two
ARM1136J-S(TM) processors and provides the best performance-power-cost
profile in its class by optimal decomposition of broadband gateway functions
among the two processors.

Because the Comcerto 100 is based on the ARM(R) architecture, Mindspeed
was able to provide high performance at low cost and with extremely low
power. In addition, the scalability of the high-performance ARM
processor-based multicore solution enables the Comcerto100 to provide
significant application headroom for future service deployments.

"The ARM architecture is the optimal solution to enable us to offer
best-in-class quality of service (QoS) for the service delivery platforms
that are emerging as broadband gateways evolve into an intelligent access
point in the home, managing multiple end-nodes with multimedia capabilities,"
said Preet Virk, senior vice president and general manager of Mindspeed's
enterprise and customer premise equipment. "The need for more bandwidth and
sophisticated services within an ever-diminishing power budget can only
realistically be met by high-performance multiprocessing. As the leading
provider of high-performance embedded multicore processing solutions, ARM is
our logical choice for future development."

"Mindspeed is a leading implementer of multicore platforms optimized for
gateway applications," said Ian Ferguson, director Enterprise Solutions, ARM.
"We look forward to a long term engagement with Mindspeed as they expand
their portfolio of innovative multicore-based SoCs utilizing the ARM
Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore multicore processor to address next-generation service
provider gateway requirements."

The two companies are already collaborating on next-generation gateway
platform solutions for the residential and enterprise market segments and
co-marketing these solutions to service providers and OEMs/ODMs.

The Comcerto100 architecture uses optimal decomposition of broadband
gateway functions among two high-performance ARM1136J-S processors to ensure
QoS for real-time applications. With real-time processing such as voice,
video and packet forwarding optimized to reside on one of the processors and
non real-time processing such as network monitoring and subscriber management
on the second; the Comcerto100 broadband gateway architecture protects the
quality and reliability of revenue-bearing services while providing
application headroom for future service deployments. Because of this
asymmetric multicore partitioning, OEMs and service providers can easily
program higher level applications without worrying about the impact to
real-time functionality or headroom limitations due to shared processing
resources.

With clear demarcation between real-time processing like voice and video
and non real-time processing such as monitoring and subscriber management,
the Comcerto 100 processor enables a broadband gateway architecture that
protects revenue-bearing services while providing application headroom for
future service deployments.

About ARM

"ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital
products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to
imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive
product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors,
enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity
products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive
design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad
Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast,
reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information
on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com."

About Mindspeed Technologies

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor
networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access,
metropolitan and wide area networks. The company's three key product families
include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions,
multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services
across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN communications solutions
including T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices as well as
ATM/MPLS network processors. Mindspeed's products are used in a wide variety
of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways,
high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems,
add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment. To learn more,
visit http://www.mindspeed.com.

ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. Cortex, MPCore and
ARM1136J-S are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names
are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM
Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional
subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM
France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design
Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and
ARM Norway, AS.

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