Increasing Investments by Leading Semiconductor Companies Contribute to Growth

San Jose, Calif. - October 15, 2008 - Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power and noise analyses and signoff for chip, package, and system designs, today announced that the company has achieved its 23rd consecutive quarter of record bookings and revenue, while maintaining profitability. The Q3 growth came from increasing investments by existing customers that represent the top tier semiconductor companies and adoption by new customers facing power and noise challenges as they move towards 45/32nm technologies. In today's market, cost reduction and risk mitigation are essential for companies to remain competitive. IC and system customers are looking for solutions that enable them to make reliable cost saving decisions throughout the product development flow. Apache has an established expertise and technology leadership for a strong partnership with tier 1 companies to address the leading challenges for SoC, analog, package, and system designs.

"Over the past several years, Apache has continued to innovate and expand our product portfolio while practicing sound business fundamentals. Apache's 10+ product offerings focusing on chip-package-system convergence are adopted by customers across the globe in a variety of industry segments," said Andrew Yang, CEO of Apache. "Our consecutive quarters of growth reflect the value that our products offer to customers business."

About Apache Design Solutions
Apache delivers the industry's leading power and noise analyses solutions from early-stage to signoff for chip, package, and system designs. Apache's innovative platforms considers multiple noise sources that impact the design--such as power, signal, package / system IO, substrate, and temperature-and enables engineers to optimize and validate their designs. Certified by TSMC and Common Platform Reference Flows, Apache's products are adopted by 80% of the top IDM, fabless semiconductor, and foundries for risk mitigation, cost reduction, and time-to-market improvements. Apache is a global company with R&D centers and direct sales / support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.apache-da.com.

Apache Design Solutions, CPM, NSPICE, RedHawk, PakSI-E, PsiWinder, Sahara, Sentinel, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.


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