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Tensilica Appoints Tonbu as an Authorized Design Center
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Oct. 9, 2000--Tensilica®,
Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of configurable
application-specific processor cores and development tools for
System-on-Chip (SOC) designs, today announced that Tonbu(TM), Inc.,
the leader in Global Collaborative Outsourcing, has been appointed a
Tensilica Authorized Design Center and a charter member of the
Tensilica Xtensions(TM) Network Program.
Design Centers provide essential services to many organizations
that are defining and building their leading edge SOC designs today.
Through the company's Authorized Design Center program, a part of the
Tensilica Xtensions Network Program, Tensilica ensures that these
services will be available to its licensees. Tensilica Authorized
Design Center engineering personnel receive extensive training on the
Xtensa architecture, configuration and software development tools,
on-going support and access to technology updates, and direct access
to applications engineering.
``Tonbu has embraced the Internet to launch an innovative
collaboration platform to deliver professional design services,''
stated Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of marketing and
business development. ``We are pleased to be working with Tonbu to
provide design services solutions to enable our licensees to bring
their Xtensa based products to market on time and to specification.''
Tonbu's c-commerce software platform is helping companies leverage
the power of the Internet by creating and delivering technologies and
services that enable real-time collaboration on the Web through a
standard Internet browser. The Company has deployed a multi-tiered
collaborative commerce business model and complementary software that
speed time-to-market and enhance product quality.
``Tensilica's appointment of Tonbu as an Authorized Design Center
and as a charter member of the Xtensions Network Program is a
significant endorsement of the Tonbu collaborative commerce platform,''
said Steven Mason, vice president of marketing of Tonbu. ``Tensilica's
leadership in configurable processor cores that power information
appliances and other Internet-aware devices makes them an ideal
partner for Tonbu. We share a mission to help companies work smarter
and more efficiently and believe that our combined real-time hardware
and software solution will enhance the productivity and market power
of Tensilica's licensees.''
About Tonbu Corp.
Tonbu, Inc. (www.tonbu.com), is C-Commerce Powering the Next
Industrial Revolution(TM) with a collaborative software platform that
enables design, engineering, supply, and manufacturing firms to
collaborate in real-time on the Web. Headquartered in San Jose,
California, and founded in 1999, Tonbu is leading the global
convergence of collaborative commerce, B2B use of the Internet and
outsourcing. Tonbu's C-Commerce platform is scalable, customizable and
deployable to accelerate the product life-cycle in key markets,
including telecommunications, Internet appliances, medical devices,
networking, computer manufacturing, and semiconductors.
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing
market for configurable microprocessor cores and software development
tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's
proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-a-chip (SOC)
designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware design and a
complete software development tool environment tailored to their
specific requirements in hours.
Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use, methodology
that enables designers to achieve optimum application performance in
minimum design time. The Company has over 100 engineers engaged in
research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa
Clara, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, Princeton, N.J., Houston,
Texas, Oxford, U.K. and Yokohama, Japan. Tensilica is headquartered in
Santa Clara, California (95054) at 3255-6 Scott Blvd., and can be
reached at (408) 986-8000 or via www.tensilica.com on the World Wide
Web.
``Tensilica'' is a registered trademark and ``Xtensa'' and ``Xtensions''
are trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. ``Tonbu'' and ``C-Commerce
Powering the Next Industrial Revolution'' are trademarks of Tonbu, Inc.
All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Contact:
Tensilica Inc.
Bernie Rosenthal, 408/327-7302
bernier@tensilica.com
or
The Leapfrog Group
Kim Alfaro, 415/563-4769
kimpr@holonet.net
or
Tonbu, Inc.
Steven Mason, 408/571-5662
smason@tonbu.com
or
The MWW Group
Rich Tauberman, 201/964.2408
rtauberman@mww.com
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