ASPEC TECHNOLOGY PROMISES PC COST, POWER AND SIZE REDUCTION, INCREASED
FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY 

Portfolio Family Of Design Tools Using Proprietary HDA Architecture Also
Enables Faster Time to Market

Santa Clara, CA -- September 13, 1993 -- Aspec Technology, Inc., a new
Silicon Valley startup company, said today that its innovative ASIC
(application-specific integrated circuits) design tool technology and
business model promises a revolution in the way ASICs are designed,
manufactured and marketed.

Based on higher device densities and performance, as well as quick
turnaround, Aspec predicts lower design and manufacturing costs, and
faster time-to-market. All of which will significantly impact the cost,
features and functional performance of computer systems, peripherals and
other electronic products for business and home use in the coming decade.

Conrad Dell'Oca, co-founder, president and CEO of Aspec, as well as the
architect of the company's advanced technology, stated, "The dominant
thrust of the computer industry has always been greater functionality in
smaller sizes at lower costs. Our HDA technology enables systems and
peripherals OEMs to affect not only those intrinsic factors, but
additionally demanding market factors --such as time-to-market -- which
influences not only cost, but market share and product life cycle. It is
here that we will have the most impact, accelerating the revolution."

Dell'Oca continued, "There is no area of electronics - business or home --
that will not benefit. For example, it is expected that on the design and
manufacturing end, there is predicted a 20-30% die cost reduction using
Aspec's technology. For the user/consumer, this can translate into a 10%
cost reduction in the finished product."

Dell'Oca said that Aspec is already supplying logic IC technology for
nearly a dozen companies for applications including voice recognition,
multimedia and virtual reality and other digital signal processing usage.

ASPEC'S TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES

Aspec's Portfolio product line and services are built upon its breakthrough
HDA (high-density array) technology. HDA architecture is inherently
low-cost for design creation and device fabrication, and features
densities up to 500,000 available gates, or two million transistors, using
0.8 micron processes.

HDA high-reliability, low-risk designs run on standard CAD tools. This
enables logic ICs to be designed and manufactured more quickly, with more
performance and features, at lower cost., all of which benefits can be
passed to users. Aspec's business model incorporates the licensing of its
Portfolio library to ASIC users, enabling their design independence from
high-overhead old-line suppliers. In addition, the technology is licensed
to semiconductor manufacturers to allow multiple sourcing of the ICs.

HDA BRINGS LOGIC IC PARITY WITH MICROPROCESSORS 

Microprocessors (MPUs) are the high-profile devices of the PC world --
everyone knows the microprocessor and its clock frequency in their PC.
However, for every MPU on a PC motherboard there are 3-6 logic integrated
circuits. They control the graphics, keyboard, peripherals, power
management (for small PCs), interface bus and the system bus. The promise
of Aspec's technology lies not only in greater functional integration,
reducing the number and increasing the density of devices, but also
printed circuit board size, and thus product size, weight and the cost of
every computer manufactured. Only by the use of solidly architected and
sophisticated designs can users maximize electronic and PC/peripheral
designs while decreasing size, cost and turnaround. Now, with the new
developments from Aspec Technology, ASICs can achieve relative parity in
functionality and density with MPUs.

ASPEC TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS

Aspec's innovative technology and business model provides its customers and
strategic manufacturing partners the following benefits:

* Aspec's HDA architecture provides chip size reductions averaging 27%.
This translates into lower costs and lower power dissipation

* Aspec's business model of licensing PC manufacturers with its technology
means that these OEMs are not tied to a single supplier, and can deal
directly with low-cost Pacific Rim semiconductor suppliers

* Aspec's partners and licensees, Samsung in Korea and Sanyo in Japan, are
two of the most cost-efficient silicon manufacturers in the world

* Multiple sourcing is built into Aspec's business and technology models.
Multisourcing is finally practical using the HDA process-independent
architecture, which eases supply pressures and reduces costs. Also, other
sources can also be brought up with Aspec's design methodology in weeks
rather than months in the traditional approach.

* Aspec's lean organization, engineering and business know-how, is more
efficient and cost effective than old-line silicon suppliers.

Aspec Technology, Inc. provides enabling technology and services to ASIC
users and semiconductor manufacturers. As a full ASIC supplier, Aspec has
consummated technology licensing relationships with large semiconductor
and system companies. The company has introduced its Portfolio family of
electronic design tools to the commercial application specific integrated
circuit (ASIC) market.

Founded by four industry veterans in late 1991, Aspec has been successful
in creating ASIC designs for a variety of clients and has emerged a major
player in the ASIC market upon offering its technology commercially. With
over 20 employees, the company is privately held and has been profitable
since founding. The company has entered into licensing agreements with two
major semiconductor firms to produce ASICs using Aspec technology. In
addition, the company has introduced a full ASIC product line to OEMs
utilizing Aspec's proprietary HDA Sea of Gates Technology.

Founders include Conrad Dell'Oca, president and CEO, architect of the Sea
of Gates technology; Jai Shin, vice president of business development and
CFO, Patrick Yin, vice president of engineering, and Y. C. Chang, director
of engineering. All are alumni of LSI Logic and other major Silicon Valley
companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Synertek, Gould SEL, Amdahl,
Fairchild, and Rolm.

Aspec headquarters is located at 3901 Burton Drive, Santa Clara, CA,
telephone 408/988-4411, fax 408/988-4767.

 ==========================================================
 From the 'New Product Information' Electronic News Service
 ==========================================================
 This information was processed from data provided by the
 above mentioned company. For additional details, contact 
 the company at the address or telephone number indicated.
 ==========================================================
 All submissions for this service should be addressed to:
 BAKER ENTERPRISES,  20 Ferro Dr,  Sewell, NJ 08080  U.S.A.
 Email:  RBakerPC (AOL/Delphi), rbakerpc@aol.com (Internet)
 ==========================================================
