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Tundra Semiconductor Corporation

603 March Road
Ottawa
Ontario

K2K 2M5
Canada

Phone
613 592 0714

Fax
613 592 1320

Web Address
www.tundra.com

Tundra Semiconductor Announces RapidIO Gen2 Program

Tundra Semiconductor today announced its new RapidIO Gen2 program. Backwards compatible with RapidIO Specification Rev 1.3, Tundra's new RapidIO solutions will offer OEMs increased system performance, reduced power consumption and lower system costs when designing next generation systems.

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MUSILAND selects Tundra Semiconductor's PCI Express Bridge

Tundra has announced that MUSILAND, China's computer sound card manufacturer has selected Tundra's PCI Express (PCIe) Tsi382 for the master card in its Sword II Analog-HD PCIe, X-Sword II Pro-HD PCIe, and X-Sword II Digital PCIe High Definition (HD) Audio System.

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Tundra's PCI Express Products Selected by Nortel, EFI and AXIOMTEK

Tundra has been selected by Nortel Networks, EFI, and AXIOMTEK to supply it's high performance PCI Express (PCIe) Bridges for their newest designs. Nortel recently selected Tundra's Tsi381 PCIe Bridge for the quality and reliability that this bridge offered Nortel's latest Passport product line.

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Tundra and RMI Announce Interoperability of Tundra's RapidIO Switch with RMI's XLS Multi-core Multi-threaded Processor

Tundra Semiconductor and RMI Corporation have announced the interoperability of Tundra's Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch with RMI Corporation's (RMI) high-performance multi-core multi-threaded XLS Processor.

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Tundra Semiconductor Continues RapidIO Leadership with Addition of Cost and Space Sensitive Switch

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation today announced the Tundra Tsi577 ™ Serial RapidIO® Switch. By minimizing power consumption and package size, this Switch now offers customers the powerful functionality of RapidIO while reducing overall design cost.

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ZTE Selects Tundra Semiconductor for Next Generation Platform

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in System Interconnect, has been selected by ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, to supply Tundra's high performance PCI Express product for ZTE's Next Generation Platform System Graphics Card.

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Tundra's Multi-Standard RapidIO Evaluation Platform with Texas Instruments and Altera

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in System Interconnect, today introduced an evaluation platform centered on its Tsi620TM multi-standard RapidIO Switch. In addition to the Tundra Tsi620, the multi-platform evaluation platform uses Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320TCI6487 high performance multi-core DSP and an Altera Stratix III FPGA to enable prototyping and, ultimately, cost reduction in applications such as high performance wireless and video processing, medical imaging and military signal-processing solutions.

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Tundra's PCI Express Bridge Selected by I-View Communications

Tundra Semiconductor and Alogics, a leading video security and surveillance solution provider, have been selected by I-View Communication Inc. (I-View), a leader in digital video recording (DVR) for security and surveillance systems, to provide PCI Express® (PCIe) Bridges and PCI One Chip Decoders to enable I-View's PCIe DVR video capture cards for next generation surveillance systems.

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Tundra's SLE Division Announces 150 Gb/s Interlaken IP Core

Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE), a high-end semiconductor design services division of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, today announced the availability of a new 150Gb/s high speed Interlaken protocol IP core for use in ASIC designs.

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End-to-End RapidIO-enabled MicroTCA Baseband Development Platform

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced the availability of the market's first end-to-end RapidIO-enabled MicroTCA platform for wireless baseband. The platform, offers end-to-end 10 Gigabit RapidIO Interconnect for chip-to-chip and board-to-board links across the backplane.

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Tundra Semiconductor Announces Technology Collaboration and License Agreement

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation hasannounced the extension of a technology collaboration and signing of a license agreement with IBM to bring new Power Architecture solutions to market as part of Tundra's smart System Interconnect strategy.

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Tundra Semiconductor Switch Selected By GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced that GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has selected the Tundra Tsi578, the serial RapidIO switch, for its DSP220, DSP230 and CRX800 system blades designed for defense and aerospace applications.

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Currency and Market Conditions Drive Need for Tundra Semiconductor Restructuring

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced today that the Company is implementing a restructuring plan to immediately adapt its cost structure to the rapid Canadian dollar movement and telecom market conditions.

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Tundra's Multi-Standard Serial RapidIO Switch has PCI Bridging and FPGA Interface

Tundra's Multi-Standard Serial RapidIO Switch has PCI Bridging and FPGA Interface

Tundra Semiconductor has introduced the Tsi620, its multi-standard Serial RapidIO Switch that lowers 3G baseband costs by bridging RapidIO-based DSP clusters to low cost embedded processors and FPGAs.

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Tundra Announces Mercury Computer Systems Sublicenses RapidIO Tsi578 MicroTCA Switching Module

Tundra Announces Mercury Computer Systems Sublicenses RapidIO Tsi578 MicroTCA Switching Module

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that it has sublicensed the Tundra Serial RapidIO Tsi578 MicroTCA Switching Module (Tsi578MSM) reference design to Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury intends to manufacture and integrate the Tsi578MSM into Mercury's MicroTCA-based Ensemble systems for WiMAX and LTE wireless applications, in addition to video, military imaging, and signal processing applications.

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Single lane PCI Express (PCIe) to PCIe

Tundra Semiconductor has announced the Tundra Tsi381 single lane PCI Express (PCIe) to PCI Bridge. Pin compatible with competing PCIe bridge products, this new product offers Tundra customers a superior solution with lower latency and better throughput than competitive offerings. The Tsi381 is ideal for applications that need to bridge from PCIe to PCI devices. Its flexibility, high performance, small footprint, and low power consumption make the Tsi381 ideal for numerous consumer and enterprise applications such as: line cards, network interface cards, motherboards, PC adapter cards and option cards, multi-function printers, media centers and digital video recorders.

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Huawei Selects Tundra’s Serial Switch for Next Generation Systems

Huawei Selects Tundra's Serial Switch for Next Generation Systems

Tundra Semiconductor has been selected by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, to provide Serial RapidIO Switches to enable Huawei's next generation production systems.

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Tundra Semiconductor Signs Product Acquisition Agreement

Tundra Semiconductor has signed an agreement to acquire a new product from a leading global solutions and engineering services provider. The agreement is a significant first step in executing Tundra's previously announced smart interconnect solutions strategy. This product represents a new product line and new market opportunity for Tundra. Based on strong I/O management experience, Tundra intends to use its existing design teams to develop future products in this new product line and in the broader smart interconnect solutions product portfolio.

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Tundra Semiconductor's Serial RapidIO Switch Selected by RadiSys

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced that RadiSys Corporation has selected the Tundra Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch for its Promentum ATCA-9100 Media Resource Module. RadiSys recently launched the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blade, which uses the Tsi578 as its Serial RapidIO interconnection for large-scale DSP aggregation.

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Cesar Cesaratto Joins Tundra Semiconductor Board of Directors

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, a world leader in System Interconnect, today announced that Cesar Cesaratto has been appointed to the Board of Directors, effective immediately.

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Tundra Semiconductor Completes PCI-to-PCI Bridge Portfolio

Tundra Semiconductor Completes PCI-to-PCI Bridge Portfolio

Tundra today launched the new Tsi352 ™ PCI-to-PCI Bridge, fully compliant with PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.3. The Tsi352 makes it possible to extend a system's load capability limit beyond that of a single PCI bus by allowing motherboard designers to add more PCI devices or more PCI option card slots than a single PCI bus can support. The Tsi352 has two identical PCI Interfaces that handle PCI transactions for its respective bus. This traffic isolation can increase system performance in many applications such as multimedia.

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Tundra Semiconductor Presents at Freescale Technology Forum

Tundra Semiconductor will exhibit and demonstrate its comprehensive line of leading System Interconnect products at the Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, June 25-28, at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Conference Centre. Tundra's Chief Technology Officer, Benny Chang, will participate in a panel discussion entitled Trends in High Speed Interconnects on Wednesday June 27 at 1:45pm.

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Freescale and Tundra Semiconductor Introduce Development Platform Enabled by RapidIO

Freescale Semiconductor and Tundra Semiconductor Corporation have introduced a development platform that combines what is said to be the industry's highest performing programmable digital signal processors and the lowest power Serial RapidIO (sRIO) switch available.

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Tundra Semiconductor Announces Restructuring to Improve Organizational Alignment and Cost Structure

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), a leader in System Interconnect, announced today that the Company is implementing a plan to control costs and continue to align the global organization more closely with the Company's long-term growth strategy.

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Tundra Semiconductor's Tsi148 Interconnect Bridge for New VME Solutions Selected by GE Fanuc Embedded Systems

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, a leading provider of embedded military and commercial solutions, has selected the Tundra Tsi148 PCI/X-to-VME Interconnect Bridge. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems recently launched the V7865 Intel® Dual Core Processor Single Board Computer (SBC) which uses the Tsi148 as its data interconnection to the VME backplane.

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Tundra Semiconductor Enters PCI Express® Market with Tsi384TM Bridge

Tundra Semiconductor Enters PCI Express® Market with Tsi384TM Bridge

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today launched the Tundra Tsi384TM four-lane PCI Express (PCIe) to PCI-X Bridge. The Bridge is pin compatible with competing PCIe bridge products and offers superior performance, lower latency, better throughput and lower power consumption than the competitive offering. Customers already sampling Tundra's PCIe Bridge confirm that the product delivers outstanding performance.

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Peter Schmidt becomes Tundra's Director of European Sales

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that Peter Schmidt has been appointed Director European Sales, effective immediately. Tundra continues to grow its customer base in the European communications and computing storage markets and is committed to being aligned geographically with customers and to providing the best support and products for their ongoing success.

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Tundra Announces Share Repurchase Program

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced today that the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has accepted the Company's notice of intention to make a normal course issuer bid. The Tundra Board of Directors has approved Tundra's purchase of up to 1,722,000 common shares (representing approximately 10% of Tundra's public float). The normal course issuer bid will commence on March 29, 2007 and will terminate on March 28, 2008 or on such earlier date as Tundra has purchased the maximum number of shares permitted under the bid. Tundra currently has 19,996,429 common shares outstanding and its public float is 17,224,412 common shares.

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Interoperability of Tundra’s Scalable Serial RapidIO Switch with TIs New High Performance DSP is announced

Interoperability of Tundra's Scalable Serial RapidIO Switch with TIs New High Performance DSP is announced

Tundra Semiconductor has announced the interoperability of its Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch with Texas Instruments' recently announced TMS320TCI6487 and TMS320TCI6488 wireless infrastructure optimized DSPs.

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Tundra and Enea to Deliver System Software Using RapidIO

Tundra Semiconductor and Enea have collaborated to deliver Enea's LINX interprocess communications (IPC) services over RapidIO. Working with Tundra's new Serial RapidIO development platforms, Enea has implemented and verified complete support for LINX over RapidIO and interoperability with Tundra's RapidIO switches. Together, RapidIO and LINX provide a reliable, scalable, high performance interconnect platform for quickly developing and deploying next-generation communications infrastructure systems.

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Low power, asynchronous PCI-to-PCI bridge

Low power, asynchronous PCI-to-PCI bridge

Tundra Semiconductor is now in full production of its low power, asynchronous PCI-to-PCI bridge. The Tundra Tsi350 offers communications and network equipment customers a competitive high quality bridge solution with low power consumption.

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Tundra Semiconductor Transfers RIOLAB to Fabric Embedded Tools

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation and Fabric Embedded Tools Corporation (FET), the leading provider of RapidIO software and tools, announced today that FET has acquired the business and operations of RIOLAB, the RapidIO Interoperability testing facility.

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Tundra's PowerPC Host Bridge Now Sampling

Tundra's PowerPC Host Bridge Now Sampling

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that the Tundra Tsi110 PowerPC Host Bridge is now available for general sampling. Ideally suited for designs where cost and power are of primary concern, the Tsi110 targets high volume applications such as; set-top boxes, home gateways, video-over-IP, video surveillance and other multi-media applications.

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Licensable Interlaken protocol IP core for use in ASIC or FPGA designs.

Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE), a high-end semiconductor design services division of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation today announced the development of a licensable Interlaken protocol IP core for use in ASIC or FPGA designs.

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Tundra pushes benefits of adding RapidIO serial interconnect to VME-based designs

In a keynote address to industry leaders at the VMEbus International Trade Association's (VITA) annual Bus and Board Conference in Long Beach, California, Tundra President and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Hoste stated, "RapidIO is the right serial interconnect because the technology provides the optimal performance and reliability for next-generations critical embedded systems. When availability and performance are critical, RapidIO is the serial interconnect of choice for embedded systems."

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Tundra Semiconductor Reduces Price on Tsi148™ VME Bridge

Tundra Semiconductor Reduces Price on Tsi148™ VME Bridge

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, has significantly lowered the price for all new orders of its Tsi148™ VME Bridge. The Tsi148 is the industry's leading PCI/X-to-VME Bridge and the successful next-generation offering to the Tundra Universe™ II, the industry's best selling VME-to-PCI Bus Bridge for embedded systems customers.

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Tundra Semiconductor Names Robert Fischer VP World-Wide Sales

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced that Robert Fischer has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Sales, effective immediately. In this new role, Fischer will lead Tundra's global sales effort across all markets and will report directly to Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Hoste.

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High-end FPGA design services added to Silicon Logic Engineering's offering

Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE) a high-end ASIC design firm that specializes in complex, right-first-time ASIC and ASIC system designs has now added high-end FPGA design services to its service offering. Silicon Logic Engineering is the design services division of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation.

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Serial RapidIO development platform gets users to market quickly

Tundra Semiconductor has announced availability of the its Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform. The addition of this design support tool, using the Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch, offers customers flexibility and the overall benefit of reducing both their design risk and time-to-market. The Tsi578 SRDP, ideally suited for a broad spectrum of wireless, video, communications and military products, gives designers the ability to rapidly prototype and test interoperability using the Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch.

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Tundra Semiconductor appoints Daniel Hoste as CEO

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that Daniel Hoste has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective immediately. Mr. Hoste has also been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors. Since joining Tundra as Vice President of Products in 2005, Mr. Hoste has been a key member of the Tundra executive team, contributing to the Company's strategic direction and continued growth as the senior executive responsible for product marketing and operations.

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David Long becomes Tundra's CFO

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced that David Long has joined the Company as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Long is responsible for leading the Company's global financial operations, reporting requirements, and shareholder communications.

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High-Performance 32bit PCI-to-PCI Bridge

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced availability of its Tsi350, a 32bit PCI-to-PCI Bridge. The Tsi350 is an industry standard, low power 32bit 66MHz asynchronous PCI-to-PCI bridge that is competitively priced and targets new designs or existing board footprints using standard 32bit 66MHz PCI-to-PCI bridges.

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Tundra Semiconductor and Atmel announce agreement to provide system interconnect products for extended reliability markets

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, the leader in System Interconnect and Atmel® Corporation, a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced an agreement enabling Atmel to deliver leading-edge system interconnect products to the extended-reliability markets.

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Tundra expands serial Rapidio® switch portfolio with launch of new 12 port, low power, small footprint switch

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced the Tundra Tsi576 Serial RapidIO Switch, a low price per port, small footprint device with optimal port width configurations for both local and backplane interconnect.

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Tundra Semiconductor acquires Silicon Logic Engineering

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced that it has acquired Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc. ("SLE") of Eau Claire, Wisconsin for $14 million USD. SLE is a leader in developing high-performance communications and computer chip products for some of the world's largest networking and computing customers. The addition of SLE's highly advanced resources, expertise and intellectual property (IP) will strengthen Tundra's leadership in System Interconnect for the communications and computing markets.

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Switch targets DSP-intensive processing applications

Switch targets DSP-intensive processing applications

Tundra Semiconductor has announced the Tundra Tsi574 Serial RapidIO Switch, a high-performance switch with patent-pending technology that delivers the performance, power and configurability, that designers of embedded designs need to build reliable, high-performance RapidIO-based systems for a wide range of applications such as wireless base stations, media gateways, video infrastructure and DSP-intensive image processing.

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Tundra To Acquire Systems Solutions Business from Alliance Semiconductor

Tundra has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of the Systems Solutions Business Unit of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation ("Alliance SSBU"). The acquisition includes intellectual property and several products both in production and under development. Tundra also expects to hire over fifty employees from Alliance SSBU as a result of the acquisition.

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Host Bridge for PowerPC® Now in Production

Host Bridge for PowerPC® Now in Production

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced that the Tundra Tsi109 Host Bridge, what is said to be the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is in full production. With several host bridges in production and with numerous development platforms available, Tundra is becoming recognized as a market leader of high performance host bridges that meet the performance, power and design support expectations of customers designing with PowerPC.

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Tundra Semiconductor Acquires Potentia Semiconductor

Tundra Semiconductor has announced the acquisition of Potentia Semiconductor Corporation ("Potentia Canada") for C$1.4 million in cash. The acquisition includes the power controller business of Potentia Canada which Tundra will continue to operate. Tundra is not acquiring the digital video display device business of Potentia Canada. This business including all of its current employees and its customers will proceed as a new venture under the "Potentia Semiconductor Corporation" name.

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Genesi selects Tundra Tsi109™ Host Bridge for PowerPC

Tundra Semiconductor's Tsi109 Host Bridge is to be integrated into the Genesi High Density Blade Server. Using the Tsi109, the Genesi design optimises system space to create the highest possible density blade server and ensures high performance at low cost.

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Switch boosts performance of wireless and video infrastructure

Switch boosts performance of wireless and video infrastructure

The Tsi578™ Serial RapidIO switch from Tundra Semiconductor increases the data throughput of next- generation communication infrastructure platforms, including ATCA® and MicroATCA™ applications. Complying with V1.3, the most recent version, of the Serial RapidIO Interconnect Specification, the switch is said ti set new standards in scalability and power economy.

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Tundra appoints Redtree across Europe

Tundra Semiconductor has appointed Redtree Solutions as its sole representative agent in Europe. Supporting the complete Tundra range of RapidIO®, VME and PCI/X based system interconnect products, Redtree will provide a local design-in service to tier 1 customers in IT, storage and telecom sectors.

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