SANTA CLARA, CA – March 30, 2010 – Azuro, Inc., a leading provider of advanced clock tree synthesis and timing optimization tools for digital chip design, today announced that Sondrel has adopted Azuro’s PowerCentric™ clock tree synthesis solution. Sondrel specializes in low power and high performance integrated circuit (IC) design services based on an award-winning design flow (Helium) and methodology to meet the performance, power, area, and schedule demands of the world’s toughest and most advanced chips.

“Sondrel provides services to several of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world,” said Graham Curren, CEO of Sondrel. “We do this because our team, flow, and methodology deliver the best quality silicon with the fastest design turnaround times. We are very experienced users of Azuro’s software and by adding PowerCentric to our Helium flow, we are able to offer our customers significant reductions in dynamic power and accelerated turnaround time on complex system-on-a-chip designs. When it comes to clock tree synthesis, Azuro is the clear industry leader.”

“We have worked alongside Sondrel for some time through our mutual customers,” said Paul Cunningham, CEO of Azuro. “The Sondrel team is one of the best digital design teams in the industry, and we welcome the opportunity to make PowerCentric a part of the amazing service that they offer.”

About PowerCentric™

PowerCentric is a clock tree synthesis tool for digital standard cell-based chip designs. It reduces chip power by up to 20% and dramatically increases designer productivity on designs with complex clock networks.

About Sondrel

Established in 2002, Sondrel now has offices throughout Europe, Israel and China. Its teams of highly experienced engineers have completed over 140 designs, all of which were designed right first time. Specializing in high performance and low power designs, Sondrel provides design services and methodology consulting to top semiconductor companies, enabling them to improve timescales and to reduce costs. Utilizing proprietary low-power optimization methodologies and software solutions, Sondrel engineers are behind many of the most cost-effective solutions on the market today.  In 2009 Sondrel was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, which is the UK’s most prestigious award for business excellence.  For additional information, visit www.sondrel.com

About Azuro

Azuro is an electronic design automation company supplying software tools for use designing digital semiconductor chips. The company’s unique clock tree synthesis and timing optimization technologies make chips faster, reduce chip power and dramaticallyaccelerate chip time to market. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with R&D in Cambridge, UK, and is privately held. For additional information, visit http://www.azuro.com/

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 30, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that Taiwan-based IC provider Terawins, Inc. licensed the MIPS32® 24KEc™ processor core for development of devices for a range of portable LCD products including digital photo frames, portable media players and automotive DVD/TV.

“Consumer expectations for in-car entertainment have evolved dramatically from CD players to sophisticated rear-seat systems incorporating high-end DVD players and TVs,” said the president of Terawins, Inc. “Our customers developing these and other portable media products must deliver cutting-edge designs that anticipate evolving trends. MIPS Technologies’ market leading processors for multimedia applications and its thriving ecosystem including Android™ support will enable our customers to create a new generation of unique and highly-competitive solutions.”

“The Greater China market continues to be our fastest growing region, with industry innovators like Terawins contributing to MIPS Technologies’ continued expansion into high-growth segments such as automotive entertainment,” said Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies. “MIPS Technologies’ processor cores offer an ideal combination of high performance and power efficiency. Together with our strong and growing ecosystem, MIPS Technologies is well positioned to be the provider of choice for next-generation portable media devices.”

The MIPS32 24KE™ core family leverages the high-performance 24K® microarchitecture and adds the MIPS DSP Application-Specific Extension (ASE), resulting in improved signal processing performance and efficient DSP capability, while significantly reducing overall SoC die area, cost and power consumption. 24KE cores are supported by software development tools, the MIPS DSP Library and a third-party DSP applications network.

About Terawins, Inc.

Founded in 2002, Terawins is a market leader in mixed signal IC and SoC development for multimedia and flat panel display applications. Terawins currently holds a high percentage share in the worldwide portable LCD and automotive DVD/TV market. Terawins is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with offices in Shenzhen, China. For more information, visit www.terawins.com.tw, or call (02) 8227-8277.

About MIPS Technologies, Inc. (www.mips.com)

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world’s most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets. These include broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide.