Atmel and Tundra Semiconductor Announce Agreement to Provide System Interconnect Products for Extended-Reliability Markets

San Jose, California, and Ottawa (ots/PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the
development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, and
Tundra(R) Semiconductor Corporation announced today an agreement
enabling Atmel to deliver leading-edge system interconnect products
to the extended-reliability markets. In this new agreement, Atmel has
been licensed to deliver a selection of Tundra's portfolio of
high-performance interconnect devices with enhanced capabilities for
applications requiring extended-temperature and extended-reliability
specifications. As a result of this announcement, Tundra and
Atmel-Grenoble will offer comprehensive processing systems solutions
in the high-performance telecommunications, embedded computing,
industrial, military and space markets.

Atmel will be able to offer host bridges for PowerPC(R) and
RapidIO(R) interconnect products as either commercial devices
upscreened to meet extended-reliability demands, such as high
temperature range, burn-in or other specific qualifications, or as
Hi-Rel devices assembled and tested by Atmel to military screening
levels such as MIL-PRF 38535.

"We are pleased to partner with Atmel Grenoble. The partnership is
important to our commitment to customers -- enabling them to design
with standards-based System Interconnect products for both PowerPC
and RapidIO architectures and now in both industrial and military
temperature ranges," said Daniel Hoste, vice president of Products,
at Tundra Semiconductor. "Atmel Grenoble is recognized as the
specialist in supplying extended reliability microprocessors and we
are confident our products will be more widely available to customers
who are developing systems suitable for harsh environments."

Joining the PC106 and PC107, will be the PC109, the
extended-reliability version of the Tundra Tsi109(TM) Host Bridge for
PowerPC. The PC109 is an ideal companion chip for the PC74xx
high-reliability microprocessors supported by Atmel. It will be
available from Atmel during fourth quarter 2006. In addition to the
host bridges, Atmel intends to offer extended-reliability versions of
Tundra's portfolio of serial RapidIO switches.

"With more than twenty years of successful support of Freescale
Semiconductor's PowerPC and 68K microprocessors for extended
reliability markets, we are delighted by the opportunity to
officially team with Tundra. Tundra's System Interconnect products
ideally complement our microprocessor portfolio and will broaden the
range of solutions available for our customers," said Thierry
Gouvernel, director of BMS product line at Atmel Grenoble. "
Customers will continue to benefit from a high level of services and
warranty thanks to Atmel Grenoble's world-class assembly and test
facilities as well as technical support and long term product
availability."

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory
and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is
able to provide the electronics industry with complete system
solutions. Focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications,
computing and automotive markets, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere
You Are(R) .

NOTE: Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, Everywhere You
Are(R) and others, are registered trademarks, or trademarks of Atmel
Corporation or its subsidiaries. RapidIO is a trademark of the
RapidIO Trade Association, Inc. The PowerPC name, Power Architecture
name, and the PowerPC logotype are trademarks of International
Business Machines Corporation, used under license there from. Other
terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

About Tundra

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN) is the global leader in
System Interconnect providing world-class customer and technical
support, leading-edge semiconductor solutions and design services to
the world's foremost communications, networking, storage system, and
information technology vendors. Consistently delivering on system
level performance promises that reduce time to market, Tundra System
Interconnect products ensure market advantage in wireless
infrastructure, storage networking, network access, military,
industrial automation, and information technology applications.
Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc. ("SLE"), Tundra's semiconductor
design services division, offers industry-leading ASIC design
services, semiconductor intellectual property and product development
consulting. For more information, please visit www.tundra.com

For further information on Atmel's Hi-Rel microprocessors, go to
http://www.atmel.com/products/HighRel

Atmel Press Contacts:
Sylvie Mattei, Communication Manager, Atmel Grenoble
Phone: +33-4-76-58-30-25, Email sylvie.mattei@gfo.atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations - USA and Asia Pacific Rim
Phone: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com
Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe
Phone: +33-1-30-60-70-68, Fax: +49-71-31-67-24-23
Email: veronique.sablereau@atmel.com
Tundra Semiconductor Press Contacts:
Veronica Farmer, Marketing Communications, Tundra Semiconductor
Phone: +1-613-592-0859 x1771, Email: veronica.farmer@tundra.com
Web site: http://www.tundra.com
Web site: http://www.atmel.com

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Contact:
Sylvie Mattei, Communication Manager of Atmel Grenoble,
+33-4-76-58-30-25, or sylvie.mattei@gfo.atmel.com; or Helen Perlegos,
Public Relations, USA and Asia Pacific Rim, +1-408-487-2963, or
hperlegos@atmel.com, or Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications
Manager - Europe, +33-1-30-60-70-68, or fax, +49-71-31-67-24-23, or
veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, both of Atmel; or Veronica Farmer,
Marketing
Communications of Tundra Semiconductor +1-613-592-0859, ext. 1771, or
veronica.farmer@tundra.com