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QTHINK® IS HONORED BY NOLLENBERGER CAPITAL PARTNERS IN THEIR TOP 200 PRIVATE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES FOR 2008 REPORT
Full Press Release June 10, 2008

QTHINK® HAS REACHED THE MILESTONE OF 200 SUCCESSFUL ON-TIME AND ON-SPEC SOC TAPEOUT COMPLETIONS
Full Press Release June 17, 2008


QTHINK represented at DVCon in San Jose 2/22/2008

SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 22, 2008 This year the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon)was held February 19-21 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. DVCon is the premier conference for functional design and verification of digital electronic systems. The conference has grown from its days as user groups focused on HDLs to a full-fledged conference, featuring the latest technology, techniques, standards and methods. The conference had a record number of attendees as well as the largest number of exhibitors in its history. QThink was represented by Charlie Kahle and Don Ticarich who manned our exhibition booth.
Several sessions and vendor presentations at DVCon were dedicated to Open Verification Methodology (OVM). Both Cadence and Mentor Graphics have contributed technology and resources to develop the foundation of the methodology and class libraries, and this is also a key methodology for QThink’s expanding verification business.

QTHINK® JOINS CADENCE VERIFICATION ALLIANCE PROGRAM
Full Press Release June 25, 2007

QTHINK® JOINS THE COMMON PLATFORMTM TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION
Full Press Release June 7, 2007

QTHINK announced that it has named Urban Jangren as Vice President in charge of its San Diego Design Center 1/20/2006

SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 20, 2006 --QuantumThink Group, Inc., (QThink) a leading pure-play full-service IC design services company, announced that it has named Urban Jangren as Vice President in charge of its San Diego Design Center.  This move expands on QThink’s strategy of aligning with its client base at locations around the world, and follows recent announcements of new design centers in Austin, Texas and Bangalore, India.

 

Mr. Jangren has over 25 years of experience in the IC design field, most recently in a management role at Intel, along with previous management experience at Unisys and Cadence.  He started his career as an engineer at Ericsson, and his experience spans detailed IC design engineering, plus extensive project and product management.  Mr. Jangren received his MSEE degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and has also completed the Management and Leadership Program at the University of California, San Diego.

The addition of Mr. Jangren further solidifies QThink’s position as the premier pure-play IC design services provider, and strengthens its global management team.  “Mr. Jangren is a seasoned veteran, and brings considerable IC design and design services experience with him.  Mr. Jangren complements the existing management team at our San Jose, Austin and Bangalore Design Centers, and positions us for continued growth in the San Diego market.  We are very excited to have an individual of his caliber on our team,” stated Akbar Shokouhi, President & CEO.

“The appointment of Mr. Jangren to manage our San Diego Design Center extends QThink’s ability to deliver unparalleled results to our clients, even as they migrate to ever-more challenging technologies.  We have always prided ourselves on our engineering excellence, and now with Mr. Jangren on board, we can take that to an even higher level of excellence,” stated Charlie Kahle, CTO & VP of Engineering.

QThink Continues to Expand its Market Leadership by Opening an Austin Design Center

9/01/2005

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – September 1, 2005 – QuantumThink Group Inc., (QThink®) a worldwide leader in pure-play full-service IC design services, today announced that it has opened a design center in Austin, TX.  This center will include the full spectrum of front-to-back design services that QThink offers at its other design centers, and is being staffed with experienced sales and design personnel.  To jumpstart the design efforts in Austin, QThink has complemented its existing Austin-based sales presence with a senior design and program management resource that has relocated from QThink’s headquarters in San Diego.  QThink will further grow its design presence in Austin by tapping into the extensive pool of engineering talent in the region.

“We recently opened a design center in San Jose, CA and one in Bangalore, India. The opening of the Austin facility continues the company’s growth strategy that it is executing on to expand its market leadership and customer base, while increasing service levels and options to our customers,” said Akbar Shokouhi, CEO of QThink. “We have transferred our proven processes and methodologies currently used at our headquarters and have hired some very talented engineers to execute on QThink’s entire service offering from concept/specification to GDSII.”

QThink Expands its Worldwide Presence by Opening a Design Center in Bangalore, India 4/29/2005

BANGALORE, India and SAN DIEGO, Calif. – April 29, 2005 – QuantumThink Group Inc., (QThink®) a worldwide leader in pure-play full-service IC design services, today announced that it has strengthened its global presence by opening a design center in Bangalore, India. Headed by Sundar Raman, an industry veteran who joined QThink in their San Diego design center in 2001, the new design center will house a team of experienced engineers who will expand QThink’s design presence across the globe. The Bangalore design center will complement QThink’s existing design centers in San Diego and San Jose, California.

"We are excited about expanding to Bangalore. The opening of this design center is a sign of QThink’s continued commitment to providing our customers the necessary support they need to create exciting and innovative applications," said Akbar Shokouhi, president and CEO of QThink. “This office will inherit QThink’s unique attributes including our proven processes and methodologies currently used at our existing design centers, giving them the ability to support our entire service offering from concept/specification to GDSII.”

“Due to increased demand from customers in India, the Pacific Rim and Europe, we are aggressively building a design team and soon will be able to deploy the excellent talent and resources that are available in Bangalore, and provide the flexibility our customers require. Our Bangalore design center will give our customers the same quality and on-time results they have been seeing for the last 6 years,” said Sundar Raman, General Manager of QThink India.

QTHINK SHOWS ITS COMMITMENT TO SUPPORTING ITS SILICON VALLEY BASED CLIENTS BY INAUGURATING ITS SAN JOSE DESIGN CENTER 8/31/2004
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 31st, 2004 --QuantumThink Group, Inc. (QThink), a leading pure-play full-service IC design services company, announced today that it officially inaugurated its Silicon Valley Design Center, located in the heart of all the action at 90 Bonaventura Drive, San Jose, CA 95134, telephone (408) 240-1120. Company executives were present for the ribbon cutting ceremony. The expansion is part of an orchestrated growth strategy that the company is executing on to expand its market leadership and customer base into more vertical market segments and regions with a wider set of offerings.
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QTHINK ADDS INDUSTRY VETERANS TO ITS EXECUTIVE TEAM AS COMPANY AIMS TO EXPAND ITS MARKET LEADERSHIP 8/16/2004
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 16, 2004 --QuantumThink Group, Inc., (QThink) a leading pure-play full-service IC design services company, announced that it has named David Seider as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and Marco Zelada as Vice President of Marketing. This is part of an orchestrated growth strategy that the company is executing on to expand its market leadership and customer base into more vertical market segments and regions with a wider set of offerings.
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Peregrine Semiconductor and QThink launch first Radiation-Hard ASIC for Satellite Application 6/30/2004
San Diego, California, June 30, 2004 -- Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, and QThink, a pure play IC design company, today announced completion of the first radiation-hard ASIC for precision clock distribution. The high-performance mixed-signal ASIC resulted from a cooperative development relationship under which QThink provided design infrastructure and complex digital design support, and Peregrine completed high speed analog design, manufacturing and provided all space-level qualifications.
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QThink Awarded SiliconIran Association's 2004 Start Up of the Year 3/3/2004
Laguna Niguel, CA, March 3, 2004 -- During SiliconIran Association's Third Annual Excellence Awards Ceremony, QThink was announced the 2004 Start Up of the Year. Akbar Shokouhi, President & CEO of QThink, accepted the award. The SiliconIran Excellence Award honors those who have demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurial success in the development of a technology-based commercial enterprise. The individual must be instrumental in a key technology that includes its development, commercialization, and subsequent marketing of its related products and/or services.
QThink Adopts Magma's Blast Create for RTL-to-GDSII Design 10/13/2003
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 13, 2003— Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, today announced that QuantumThink Group Inc. ("QThink"), a leading pure-play design services company, has adopted the Blast Create(TM) synthesis solution. QThink now offers customers expertise in Magma's complete RTL-to-GDSII flow.

"The addition of Blast Create into our design tool portfolio furthers our commitment to providing world-class design services using the most advanced EDA solutions," said Charlie Kahle, vice president of engineering at QThink. "We have successfully completed many designs using the Blast Fusion(TM) physical design system and look forward to leveraging Magma's integrated RTL-to-GDSII solution to deliver even more predictable design flows, better results and faster turnaround time."

"As a longtime MagmaTies partner, QThink has significant expertise using our back-end solution," said Yatin Trivedi, director of product marketing at Magma. "With Blast Create, QThink's designers are able to continue using their existing knowledge of RTL coding styles, constraints, design for test (DFT) and physical optimization. As a result, they were able to quickly get up to speed on Blast Create and can now synthesize, place and route large designs using fewer partitions and without leaving the Magma environment."
Chartered Names QThink a Design Services Partner in its NanoAccess™ Alliance 9/18/2003
September 18, 2003 – Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq: CHRT and SGX-ST: Chartered) today announced the formation of its NanoAccess™ Alliance in which it named QThink a design services partner. The NanoAccess Alliance is an extensive ecosystem of 90nm third-party library, EDA and IP companies pre-qualifying 90nm design solutions for earlier silicon validation and lower risk production of leading-edge integrated circuits (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) devices.
QThink to Showcase Multiple 0.13-micron Customer Successes at TSMC’s U.S. Technology Symposiums 4/18/2003
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 18, 2003 – QuantumThink Group, Inc., (“QThink”) a leading pure-play design services company, announced that it will be exhibiting at all four TSMC [(TSMC) (TAIEX: 2330, NYSE: TSM)] U.S. Technology Symposiums, showcasing various QThink first-pass silicon successes based on TSMC’s 0.13-micron processes at each show. As a long time member of TSMC’s Design Center Alliance Program, QThink will be located in the Partner Pavilion section at each show.
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QThink Validated as Foundry Design Center in IBM’s “Ready for IBM Technology” Program 4/9/2003
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 9, 2003 -- QuantumThink Group, Inc. (“QThink”), the leading pure-play IC design services company, today announced it has been awarded IBM’s “Ready for IBM Technology” mark as a Foundry Design Center.

QThink’s design services have been designated as “customer-validated”, the highest level of achievement by an IBM Business Partner in IBM’s “Ready for IBM Technology” program, for IBM 0.25-um and 0.18-um CMOS technologies and IBM 0.5-um and 0.18-um silicon germanium BiCMOS technologies. This validation provides QThink an extensive set of benefits including enhanced access to leading IBM products and technologies, technical resources, training and support.

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