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SST All-in-OneMemory Wins Innovation Award From EDN Magazine
All-in-OneMemory Takes Home Coveted Industry Award in Digital ICs, Memory and Programmable Logic Category
NEWS RELEASE
For More Information Contact:
Ricky Gradwohl
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
408/720-6512
rgradwohl@sst.com
Bob Nelson
Tsantes Consulting Group
408/426-4905
bnelson@tsantes.com
SUNNYVALE, Calif., APRIL 22, 2008 — SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., NASDAQ: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, today announced that its innovative managed memory subsystem solution, All-in-OneMemory, has won EDN Magazine's 18th annual Innovation Award in the Digital ICs, Memory and Programmable Logic category. For eighteen years, the Innovation Awards have honored the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry.
"Every year the difficulty of technical challenges increases, the pressures of schedule, cost, and energy efficiency grow, and the resources available to design teams dwindle. That makes the achievements of this year's EDN Innovation Award winners all the more impressive," stated Ron Wilson, executive director of EDN Worldwide. "Selected by their peers in the design community for their outstanding results, these innovators stand in the front rank of the best and brightest electronics engineering has to offer."
"We are very pleased and honored to have won this prestigious award from EDN Magazine," said Bing Yeh, president and CEO, SST. "To have All-in-OneMemory recognized by the staff and readers of EDN is a strong testament to the creativity and design and technology expertise that made this product possible. With the innovative All-in-OneMemory architecture, we are now well equipped to participate in the high-density NOR market with a much less expensive and more flexible memory subsystem solution for code and data."
About All-in-OneMemory
SST All-in-OneMemory offers designers an easy-to-use, single-package memory subsystem with the full benefits of NOR, NAND and RAM for code and data storage. Functionally, All-in-OneMemory is the combination of a high-density NOR, a system RAM and a solid-state drive. The high-density NOR consists of two partitions, a typical size of NOR for boot-up code and a large Pseudo-NOR (PNOR) memory for storing and executing operating system and application code. PNOR is an emulated NOR consisting of a multi-gigabit NAND for nonvolatile storage and a RAM cache for high-speed random access.
All-in-OneMemory products offer several key benefits not found in alternative memory solutions. All-in-OneMemory uses a simple PSRAM bus to interface to the host even though internally All-in-OneMemory has three different types of memory: NOR, NAND and RAM. The simple PSRAM interface makes the system design much easier and helps speed time-to-market. By intelligently managing all memory components with a resident 32-bit microcontroller, All-in-OneMemory offers a large and expandable XIP code area, instant secure boot, memory demand-paging, NAND flash management, and an industry standard ATA data storage protocol in a small footprint BGA package; thereby reducing system complexity and lowering overall system cost. SST All-in-OneMemory is designed for a wide range of embedded system applications, including multimedia-enabled cell phones, portable media players, digital still/video cameras, personal navigation devices, set-top boxes, IPTVs, gaming devices, medical equipment and industrial systems.
About EDN and EDN.com
EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. EDN.com delivers a three-dimensional view of the electronics industry via news coverage, strategic business information, and in-depth technical content (www.edn.com). EDN is published by Reed Business Information (www.reedbusiness.com/us), the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. and a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL) – a world-leading publisher and information provider.
About the EDN Innovation Awards
EDN was the first to create an award honoring people, products, and technologies that have shaped the electronics industry. The EDN Innovation Awards program also nurtures the growth of engineering careers and the future of electronics by donating a portion of the proceeds from the Innovation Awards ceremony to an engineering university selected by the Innovator of the Year (www.edn.com/innovation18).
About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements regarding flash memory and non-memory market conditions, SST’s future financial performance, the performance of new products and SST’s ability to bring new products to market that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks may include timely development, acceptance and pricing of new products, the terms and conditions associated with licensees’ royalty payments, the impact of competitive products and pricing, and general economic conditions as they affect SST’s customers, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s periodic reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2007, June 30, 2007 and September 30, 2007. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, SST disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
For more information about SST and the company's comprehensive list of product offerings, please call 1-888/SST-CHIP. Information can also be requested via email to literature@sst.com or through SST's Web site at http://www.sst.com. SST’s head office is located at 1171 Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, Calif.; telephone: 408/735-9110; fax: 408/735-9036.
The SST logo and SuperFlash are registered trademarks, and Pseudo-NOR and PNOR are trademarks of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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