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Phoenix, Arizona March 18, 2005 - With the intensity of baseball coaches looking to assemble a winning season, more than 170 semiconductor industry executives gathered at this week’s Semico Summit to share their views on the market opportunities taking shape this year. Acknowledging that demand for “bread-and-butter” products like computers and cell phones will continue, but not drive the industry, consensus among this group of leaders was that consumers will drive demand for semiconductor chips.

Phoenix, Arizona February 17, 2005 - Digital cameras are an attractive, rapidly growing semiconductor end-use market. What are the opportunities for semiconductor manufacturers in this market? How can a semiconductor company get a piece of that market? Semico Research Corp. study MP117-05, “Digital Cameras: Semiconductors Get the Picture,” addresses those questions. This study provides digital camera forecasts by market segment, a typical digital camera BOM, semiconductor ASP forecasts, semiconductor TAM by device type and a wafer demand forecast.

Phoenix, Arizona February 10, 2005 - Semico Research Corp’s latest 4Q04 SRAM report shows a record year in terms of unit shipments. One would think the revenue would be pouring in but the truth is manufacturers made a lot less money this year. The aggregate ASP dropped in excess of 50% since 2000 when it was $5.31 and in 2004 it was a mere $2.45. The primary reason is that Pseudo SRAM (PSRAM) has made a big dent in the SRAM market.

Semico forecasts both the U.S. economy and the worldwide semiconductor industry will experience a slowdown in 2005.

Phoenix, Arizona January 17, 2005 - Semico’s Inflection Point Indicator (IPI) showed a dramatic dip this month, indicating an increased risk of weakness in the 3Q05. The November IPI reading of 14.23 was down 5.8% from the October IPI of 15.12. This was the largest percentage drop in over three years, when the August 2001 IPI fell 8.0%.