SHENZHEN, China, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cogo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGO) , a leading platform services provider for the technology and industrial sectors in China, today announced it has secured its first embedded module design wins with Intel. The new supplier relationship will allow Cogo to utilize Intel’s successful family of x-86 processors, broadening the company’s exposure in a number of China’s consumer and Industrial end markets.

Cogo expects to begin recording revenue from its Intel solutions in the third quarter of 2010 and anticipates the business will ramp through 2011. In the consumer segment, Cogo will focus on embedded solutions across a range of products, including mobile Internet devices (“MID”), car PC systems, home gateways, IPTV set top boxes, digital signage, and Karaoke systems. Cogo believes its installed base of approximately 500 handheld and digital media customers will provide a cost effective approach for Intel to penetrate China’s massive embedded market. Additionally, Cogo expects to work with Intel in other fast developing Industrial markets, such as the smart grid and auto electronics.

“We’re extremely pleased to have Intel as one of our key design partners. We expect this new relationship to open up huge new markets for our embedded system solutions in both the consumer and Industrial verticals and view the partnership as clear validation of our strong position in China,” commented Jeffrey Kang, CEO of Cogo. “We have strong customer relationships and great experience in China’s embedded markets, and we will work with Intel closely to offer customized solutions to meet the unique requirements of the Chinese market. The Intel brand speaks for itself, and we are excited to work closely with this market leader.”

About Cogo Group, Inc.:

Cogo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:COGO) is a leading provider of customized module and subsystem design solutions in China. The Company believes it acts as a proxy to China’s technology industry as it works with virtually all the major ODMs and OEMs in China. Cogo leverages these relationships and combines their IP to create designs that Cogo then sells to electronic manufacturers. These designs allow manufacturers to reduce their time to market for new products and ultimately increase sales. Cogo focuses on the telecommunications equipment, digital media and industrial applications end-markets for their customized design modules while also offering business and engineering services to their large telecommunications equipment vendor customers. Over the last fifteen years, Cogo has grown its customer list to include nearly 1,500 manufacturers across the telecommunications equipment, digital media and industrial applications markets, covering both multinational Chinese subsidiaries and Chinese domestic companies.

About Intel:

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) , the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

San Jose, California – May 4, 2010 – More than a dozen silicon IP and SoC design technology related companies will exhibit and give talks at the third annual SoCIP event aiming at brining the latest SoC design technologies to China.  SoCIP 2010 symposium will be held in Shanghai at Parkyard Hotel Pudong on June 1^st and in Beijing at WenJing International Hotel on June 3^rd.  All interested participants should register through the official SoCIP website at www.socip.org before May 20th, 2010. 

The SoCIP event is supported by the China’s National Software and Integrated Circuit Public Service Platform (CSIP) and has attracted top IP design companies such as CAST, Chips & Media, Cosmic Circuits, Innopower, Innosilicon, Tensilica, Northwest Logic and Transwitch to participate. “This is the third year we will be presenting our large portfolio of IP solutions at SoCIP,” said Newton Abdalla, Vice President of CAST. “I look forward to present our latest multimedia solutions including the latest enhancements to our H.264 core.  China is a very important market for CAST and the SoCIP show is a great opportunity for us to meet leading SoC designers from China” 

“SoCIP’s mission is to serve the SoC design community by providing technologies and product information that enable precise SoC building on the first try. The 2010 theme is designing SoC with system-prototyping IP,” said Mon-Ren Chene, Chairman and CTO of S2C, the organizer of the SoCIP. “S2C has long being an advocate for a common system prototyping platform for IP design, IP evaluation, IP integration and SoC verification. We are proud to present a number of IP reference designs provided by our IP partners running on S2C’s TAI Logic Module system prototyping hardware. We believe the system-prototyping IP library can greatly speed up IP selection process, reduce IP integration time and increase the quality of the SoC design.” 

SoCIP 2010 will continue its tradition to entertain its audience with a balance of first-hand knowledge from leading experts from world-wide vendors and exciting entertainment to lighten the mood with a dose of fun. Most 2009 participants enjoyed the wakening African dance show, the eye-popping magic show, the international buffet and the lucky draw prices. 

The organizer has promised even better entertainments for SoCIP 2010.  SoCIP 2010 will also be well covered by both EE Times China and China Integrated Circuits (CIC) Magazine, the two appointed official media for SoCIP 2010 event.

SoCIP conference attendees must pre-register by May 20^th, 2010 and be subsequently subject to approval by a selection committee before being invited to this premier event.

For more information, please visit the newly-launched SoCIP 2010 at www.socip.org .  

About S2C 

Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C is a leading total solution provider in facilitating systems to chip innovations. S2C has three solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) development: 

• Rapid SoC prototyping on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
• Third-party silicon intellectual properties (IP)
• SoC design, prototype and production services

S2C’s value proposition is our highly qualified engineering team and customer-focused sales force that understands our customers’ commercial needs in SoC development.  S2C’s unique FPGA-based electronic system level (ESL) solution, using our patented TAI IP technology, enables designers who employ silicon IP to quickly assemble SoC prototypes on FPGA easily and securely, thereby enabling customers to start software development, typically the long pole item in development schedules, immediately.  Combining rapid prototyping methodologies with a comprehensive portfolio of silicon IP and advanced design solutions, S2C can reduce the SoC design cycle by up to nine months.   

S2C currently has 3 direct offices located in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen to meet the demand for accelerated SoC design activities in China.  S2C is also the organizer of the annual SoCIP symposium in China, which brings SoC designers/professionals from the region and international silicon IP and SoC solution vendors together. 

San Jose, California – May 4, 2010 – More than a dozen silicon IP and SoC design technology related companies will exhibit and give talks at the third annual SoCIP event aiming at brining the latest SoC design technologies to China.  SoCIP 2010 symposium will be held in Shanghai at Parkyard Hotel Pudong on June 1^st and in Beijing at WenJing International Hotel on June 3^rd.  All interested participants should register through the official SoCIP website at www.socip.org before May 20th, 2010. 

The SoCIP event is supported by the China’s National Software and Integrated Circuit Public Service Platform (CSIP) and has attracted top IP design companies such as CAST, Chips & Media, Cosmic Circuits, Innopower, Innosilicon, Tensilica, Northwest Logic and Transwitch to participate. “This is the third year we will be presenting our large portfolio of IP solutions at SoCIP,” said Newton Abdalla, Vice President of CAST. “I look forward to present our latest multimedia solutions including the latest enhancements to our H.264 core.  China is a very important market for CAST and the SoCIP show is a great opportunity for us to meet leading SoC designers from China” 

“SoCIP’s mission is to serve the SoC design community by providing technologies and product information that enable precise SoC building on the first try. The 2010 theme is designing SoC with system-prototyping IP,” said Mon-Ren Chene, Chairman and CTO of S2C, the organizer of the SoCIP. “S2C has long being an advocate for a common system prototyping platform for IP design, IP evaluation, IP integration and SoC verification. We are proud to present a number of IP reference designs provided by our IP partners running on S2C’s TAI Logic Module system prototyping hardware. We believe the system-prototyping IP library can greatly speed up IP selection process, reduce IP integration time and increase the quality of the SoC design.” 

SoCIP 2010 will continue its tradition to entertain its audience with a balance of first-hand knowledge from leading experts from world-wide vendors and exciting entertainment to lighten the mood with a dose of fun. Most 2009 participants enjoyed the wakening African dance show, the eye-popping magic show, the international buffet and the lucky draw prices. 

The organizer has promised even better entertainments for SoCIP 2010.  SoCIP 2010 will also be well covered by both EE Times China and China Integrated Circuits (CIC) Magazine, the two appointed official media for SoCIP 2010 event.

SoCIP conference attendees must pre-register by May 20^th, 2010 and be subsequently subject to approval by a selection committee before being invited to this premier event.

For more information, please visit the newly-launched SoCIP 2010 at www.socip.org .  

About S2C 

Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C is a leading total solution provider in facilitating systems to chip innovations. S2C has three solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) development: 

• Rapid SoC prototyping on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
• Third-party silicon intellectual properties (IP)
• SoC design, prototype and production services

S2C’s value proposition is our highly qualified engineering team and customer-focused sales force that understands our customers’ commercial needs in SoC development.  S2C’s unique FPGA-based electronic system level (ESL) solution, using our patented TAI IP technology, enables designers who employ silicon IP to quickly assemble SoC prototypes on FPGA easily and securely, thereby enabling customers to start software development, typically the long pole item in development schedules, immediately.  Combining rapid prototyping methodologies with a comprehensive portfolio of silicon IP and advanced design solutions, S2C can reduce the SoC design cycle by up to nine months.   

S2C currently has 3 direct offices located in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen to meet the demand for accelerated SoC design activities in China.  S2C is also the organizer of the annual SoCIP symposium in China, which brings SoC designers/professionals from the region and international silicon IP and SoC solution vendors together.