Press Release

Sandbridge Technologies’ CTO & EVP Dr. John Glossner to Speak at the 5th Smart Antenna Workshop with Emphasis on SDR Applications in Seoul, Korea

White Plains, N.Y., April 21, 2003 – Dr. John Glossner, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Sandbridge Technologies, a leading U.S. based fabless semiconductor company developing the SandBlaster™ DSP technology for Software-Defined-Radio (SDR) multimode, multi-function handset terminals, will speak on the advantages of an SDR based approach for “The 5th Smart Antenna Workshop with emphasis on SDR Application.” The event is being held on April 21st 2003, in Seoul, Korea.

The event is being sponsored by IEEK (Institute of Electronics Engineering, Korea) and hosted by HY-SDR Research Center (Hanyang University) and IEEK Activity Committee

For OEMs and industry analysts who would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Glossner during the event should contact him directly at: jglossner@sandbridgetech.com.

About The 5th Smart Antenna Workshop

The Smart Antenna technology is one of the most promising technologies which provides an extremely efficient use of a given frequency band. The key feature of the smart antenna system is to provide a nicely shaped beam pattern to each of the subscribers. This year’s workshop puts a special emphasis on SDR-applications. For this purpose, the organizers have invited world-famous leading experts on SDR and Smart Antennas. This workshop will provide pioneering strategies for all the audiences to set a firm basis for their research on Smart antenna and SDR.

SandBlaster™ Processor Architecture: the processor of choice for convergence applications.

Features of the Sandblaster Baseband Processor include:

1. Supports for a variety of wireless protocols such as 2/2.5/3G cellular standards, WLAN, GPS, and Bluetooth
2. Supports for a wide range of multimedia applications and services
3. Advanced compiler technology that enables real time execution of C code, improved software productivity and significantly reduced time-to-market
4. Mixture of RISC, Java, and traditional DSP architectures in a power-efficient, multithreaded organization
5. Ultra-low power consumption

About Sandbridge Technologies

Sandbridge Technologies, Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets software-defined radio (SDR) baseband processors for multimode, multi-function wireless terminals. Sandbridge provides its customer’s tremendous competitive value in the global cellular marketplace through its exceptionally cost effective, ultra-low power broadband wireless technology based on the SandBlaster DSP baseband architecture. Sandbridge semiconductor products uniquely enable fully-programmable, multimode, multifunction wireless communications solutions to energize future multimedia handset products. Sandbridge Technologies Inc. is a venture-funded company, backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atlas Venture and Columbia Capital.

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Phone: +1.914.287-8505, Fax: +1.914.287-8501, info@sandbridgetech.com, www.sandbridgetech.com

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914-287-8553
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