NXP and Virage Logic Strategic Alliance Accelerates NXP's Move to High Performance Mixed Signal Leadership and Further Establishes Virage Logic as an IP Power House

This strategic alliance underscores the semiconductor industry's continuing trend for companies to focus on their core competencies while outsourcing non-differentiating elements of their business. This trend has enabled semiconductor companies to increase design concentration on development of their unique technical advantages, thus improving both product development cycle time as well as increasing the breadth of new product features. NXP's decision to select Virage Logic as its trusted IP provider is another step in the company's strategic vision to achieve leadership in high performance mixed signal.

Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, NXP will transfer over 160 employees and the assets associated with selected advanced CMOS libraries, IP blocks and SoC architecture along with other classes of semiconductor IP, including approximately 25 associated patent families. In consideration for the assets, NXP will receive 2.5 million shares of Virage Logic common stock, which will be subject to transfer restrictions, and a share of the future revenue generated by Virage Logic from licensing the transferred IP portfolio. In addition, Virage Logic will provide to NXP services surrounding the transferred IP for a 3.5-year period, and NXP will receive a 3.5 year license to Virage Logic's extensive standard-products semiconductor IP portfolio for all future SoC designs. In consideration for the services and the license of the Virage Logic IP portfolio, NXP will pay Virage Logic $60 million over four years from the closing of the transaction. The companies are targeting a closing in Q4 of this year, pending consultations with employee representatives. The transaction is expected to be accretive in Virage Logic's fourth fiscal quarter of 2010.

"Today's announcement represents the latest milestone in NXP's strategy of leadership and focus," said Rick Clemmer, president and CEO of NXP Semiconductors. "NXP's decision to select Virage Logic as its trusted IP provider allows the company to focus on its strategic vision to achieve leadership in high performance mixed signal. The partnership with Virage Logic will also guarantee the availability of state-of-the-art of IP to NXP and provides NXP the opportunity to participate in the value creation through our equity ownership and license sharing agreement with Virage Logic."

Dan McCranie, executive chairman for Virage Logic, said, "Over two years ago, we embarked on a transformation that was based on several key strategic initiatives. Amongst those initiatives were, a) the broadening of our IP product portfolio through both organic and inorganic growth and, b), establishing Virage Logic as the semiconductor industry's Trusted IP partner. Today's announcement with NXP represents strong progress on both of those initiatives. All of us at Virage Logic are proud of the confidence that NXP has shown in our technical teams to be selected as the IP provider to NXP for their future development. In addition, we are excited about the future ability to expand our IP offerings to the semiconductor industry through the productizing of NXP's important IP elements."

"This partnership enables us to serve customer demands and boost flexibility in the timely supply of cost effective and innovative ICs for a multitude of applications," said Rene Penning de Vries, chief technology officer (CTO) of NXP Semiconductors. "Our internal IP development team is world class as evidenced by the first-time functional success we experienced with our 45-nanometer chips. We selected Virage Logic because we have been working with them for many years and their proven technology leadership as a broad line IP supplier made them our partner of choice to distribute NXP's IP globally as well as further the development of this advanced IP."

"Virage Logic was founded on the vision that an independent IP company could provide the technically superior building blocks the global semiconductor industry needs to develop their highly differentiated end products more cost effectively and deliver them to market more quickly," said Dr. Alex Shubat, president, CEO and co-founder of Virage Logic. "Our partnership with NXP validates our vision and we are excited to have the talented NXP technologists join Virage Logic's global R&D team to further the development of NXP's IP technology. The Eindhoven R&D center of excellence will drive the productization of NXP's advanced CMOS IP technology and will enable Virage Logic to make this leading technology available to global SoC designers as they build products to meet their end market requirements as well as to service NXP's IP needs for their next generation products."

Conference Call

Virage Logic's management will hold a teleconference at 1:30 p.m. PACIFIC / 4:30 p.m. EASTERN Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Participants can access the call by dialing (866) 225-8754 (domestic) or (480) 629-9692 (international), Conference ID number 4171279 or can listen via a live Internet webcast, which can be found on the Investor Relations page of the Virage Logic website at www.viragelogic.com. A replay of the call will be available at (800) 406-7325 (domestic) or (303) 590-3030 (international), access number 4171279 through October 14, 2009; and the webcast can be accessed at www.viragelogic.com.

About NXP Semiconductors

NXP is a leading semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 29,000 employees working in more than 30 countries and posted sales of USD 5.4 billion (including the Mobile & Personal business) in 2008. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, mobile phones, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.

About Virage Logic

Virage Logic is a leading provider of both functional and physical semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. The company's highly differentiated product portfolio includes embedded SRAMs, embedded NVMs, embedded memory test and repair, logic libraries, memory development software, interface IP solutions, and processor solutions. As the industry's trusted semiconductor IP partner, more than 350 foundry, IDM and fabless customers rely on Virage Logic to achieve higher performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield, as well as shorten time-to-market and time-to-volume. For further information, visit http://www.viragelogic.com.

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