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November 28, 2005 05:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

StarGen Sponsors Industry Education on Advanced Switching Interconnect Standard for PCI Express

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2005--
6 City ASI-SIG Worldwide Seminar Series kicking off in December

StarGen, the leading developer of Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) solutions, announced its sponsorship of a series of seminars organized by the ASI-SIG to educate system architects and technology managers on the features and applications of Advanced Switching (ASI). The seminar series kicks-off its six city tour on December 13, 2005 in Westford, Massachusetts.

PCI Express is widely acknowledged to be the leading chip I/O for the future. According to Electronic Trend Publications in their recent report entitled "Advanced Bus and Interface Markets and Trends" published in September 2005, over 104 million PCIe x4 (8Gbps) ports will be shipped in 2005 for connecting processor and endpoint devices in the server and embedded markets alone. This is 10x more ports than are forecast to ship during that same period with RapidIO and Infiniband, combined.

"Architects, designers and strategic marketing personnel looking to leverage PCI Express in their next generation systems will benefit greatly by learning more about ASI," commented Wade Appelman, StarGen's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "Advanced Switching's ability to add switched scalability, true peer-to-peer processor communication without proprietary bridging, support for multiple protocols beyond PCIe is an incredible advantage in next generation server and storage architectures. Accomplishing all this while preserving 100% compatibility with existing PCI/PCIe devices, makes this is a very exciting technology, and this event is a great place to get more details from the leaders in the ASI/PCIe ecosystem."

Additional sponsors for the ASI-SIGnature World Tour series include Agilent Technologies, Huawei, IDT, Intel, Siemens and Xyratex. The ASI-SIG seminar tour is starting in Westford, MA and will end in April in San Jose CA, after several Asian and European dates. Each seminar will consist of a full day of talks and demonstrations from technical experts representing the sponsor companies. The scheduled seminars are:

December 13 Westford MA/ Boston area
February 21 Taipei, Taiwan
February 23 Shenzhen, PRC
February 28 Tokyo, Japan
March 21 Munich Germany
to be announced San Jose CA

Registration for the Westford event is presently open at the ASI-SIG website, at http://www.asi-sig.org/press/events/seminar_series . The other events will open registration about 6 weeks before the scheduled seminar date. More details on other StarGen sponsored events and upcoming tradeshow calendar can be found at www.stargen.com/news/events.html .

About Advanced Switching

Advanced Switching is an important new interconnect technology, collaboratively developed by the ASI-SIG, an industry organization with over 60 member companies from the semiconductor, systems equipment, and test and measurement industries. ASI is finding initial applications in the system architectures of communications systems, bladed compute servers, enterprise storage and embedded applications. Advanced Switching is totally compatible with PCI Express and extends its tree interconnect model to a switch fabric topology incorporating the best features of high performance proprietary architectures with the economics and infrastructure of volume, off-the-shelf, semiconductor components.

About StarGen

StarGen, based in Marlborough, MA, is a fabless semiconductor company providing high-performance interconnect solutions for compute and communication markets. StarGen's AXSys product line is based on the Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) and PCI Express standards and targets system OEMs developing platforms for compute, storage and communication applications. StarGen's successful 1st generation product, StarFabric, extends legacy PCI applications and is currently in use in over 75 designs with greater than 250,000 ports shipped around the world. Additional company and product information is available at www.stargen.com.