Austin, TEXAS - February 6, 2001 - Les Crudele, president and CEO of Banderacom, a leading InfiniBand fabless semiconductor company, today demonstrated Banderacom’s leadership in the rapidly emerging InfiniBand market by announcing availability of the IBandit prototype chip set and product development kit (PDK) based on its high performance IBandit™ architecture.

“Banderacom was the first silicon provider to introduce a 4X (10 gigabits per second) InfiniBand architecture that truly realizes the industry’s vision of a faster, more reliable and more scalable network environment,” said Crudele, speaking at Morgan Keegan’s Fourth Annual System Area Networks Conference in New York City.

“Banderacom’s unique chip set includes the proprietary IBandit InfiniBand Protocol Engine, an industry first, designed to enable bandwidth throughput performance that is as much as hundreds of times faster than competing architectures which utilize general purpose processors.”

“With today’s announcement, Banderacom becomes one of only three known suppliers of InfiniBand silicon, all making announcements in the last week,” said Vernon Turner, vice president, Global Enterprise Server Solutions, IDC. “Early availability of high-performance InfiniBand architectures such as IBandit are critical to making InfiniBand equipment a reality, and soon.”

Banderacom’s product development kit includes the IBandit prototype chip set, development system and software and is available to members of the IBandit Partner Program.

“By providing an InfiniBand prototype chip set and development tools for Banderacom’s high performance IBandit architecture,” Crudele said, “Banderacom’s partners can begin developing their InfiniBand systems now, months ahead of their competitors.”

Crudele will also discuss Banderacom’s pioneering InfiniBand solutions and the IBandit prototype chip set and PDK at Banc of America Securities’ 18^th Annual Technology Week on Wednesday, February 7, 2001.

“We believe that InfiniBand technology will have a dramatic impact on the development of next generation Internet infrastructure,” said Shaw Wu, Vice President and Research Analyst, Banc of America Securities. “In our view, Banderacom is at the forefront of this revolutionary technology. We are pleased to have Mr. Crudele as a presenter at our Banc of America Securities TechWeek 2001 Conference to share his thoughts on InfiniBand and the role Banderacom will play.”

InfiniBand technology is a high-performance channel-based semiconductor architecture that provides increased scalability and reliability for servers and other Internet infrastructure equipment. Using a packet-based switching fabric, InfiniBand technology is expected to meet the need for faster, less congested and more reliable data transport through the Internet.

Banderacom is an Austin, TX-based fabless semiconductor company focused on dramatically increasing the performance and reliability of networking, storage, and server system products in the dynamic new world of InfiniBand.Banderacom provides flexible, high performance semiconductors based on InfiniBand specifications.

Banderacom was founded in 1999 by a veteran team from the microprocessor and communications semiconductor industries.Banderacom is funded by multiple capital partners including Austin Ventures, Intel, and Jato Tech Ventures. Banderacom is a member of InfiniBand™ Trade Association (www.infinibandta.org). For more information visit our website at www.banderacom.com, or call (512) 302-0002.

Contact:

Sandy Helsel
MarCom Manager, Banderacom
(512) 302-0002 ext.127
sandy.helsel@banderacom.com

Kristen Indriago
Springbok Technologies
(512) 615-1607
kindriago@springbok.com

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