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October 16, 2009

Quanta and Tilera Partner on Cloud Computing

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15 -- Tilera Corporation, developer of the highest performance multicore processors, today announced that Quanta Computer has made a $10 million investment in Tilera. Quanta has selected Tilera's 64-core processor to develop products for cloud computing datacenters.

"We are very pleased to have Quanta as a customer and a strategic investor," said Omid Tahernia, Tilera CEO. "Quanta offers deep knowledge of datacenter equipment and has a clear vision of the future of the compute industry."

"Tilera's power efficient, general purpose processors are a natural fit for datacenter products," said Ted Chang, vice president of Quanta Research Institute at Quanta. "With an architecture that scales to hundreds of cores, Tilera is a clear choice for future compute requirements."

About Quanta

Established in 1988, Quanta Computer today is the largest notebook computer ODM company in the world. With leading technology and strong R&D, Quanta has become a leader in hi-tech markets. Besides continuous high growth, high quality and high value creation in notebook computers, Quanta has extended its businesses into enterprise network systems, home entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, digital home markets and datacenters. http://www.quantatw.com/Quanta/english/.

About Tilera

Tilera Corporation is the industry leader in highly scalable general purpose multicore processors for networking, wireless, and multimedia infrastructure applications. Tilera's processors are based on its breakthrough iMesh architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip. The distributed nature, of Tilera's revolutionary architecture, and the standards-based tools, including ANSI C/C++ compiler, GNU tools and Eclipse IDE, deliver an unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility. Tilera was founded in October 2004, and now provides two product families: TILE64 processors and TILEPro processors. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with locations in Westborough, Mass., Shanghai, and Beijing. www.tilera.com.

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Source: Tilera Corp.

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