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ZF Micro Solutions Signs Multi-Year Foundry Agreement With IBM

First Collaboration Brings ZFx86 FailSafe(R) System-on-a-Chip Back to Market

PALO ALTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/17/05 -- ZF Micro Solutions (ZF) appear today that it has entered into a multi-year branch casework acceding with IBM. After a three year acknowledged action with National Semiconductor, ZF was acknowledged and a adjustment acceding gave ZF rights to all IP aural the cavity to make, accept made, use, modify, aftermath derivatives or drift the ZFx86 architecture to added foundries.

In March of 2005 the aggregation began the assignment of rebuilding its bazaar attendance based on continuing able appeal for the ZFx86 FailSafe® PC-on-a-Chip that was the focus of the litigation. The ZFx86 had accomplished added than 400 architecture wins common because of its different affection set tailored accurately to the requirements of the anchored ascendancy market. The ZFx86 is still the alone accessory that combines a patented blast accretion mechanism, low-power burning and complete PC affection set. The included anchored BIOS reduces BIOS investment to aught while alms abounding affinity with Linux, Windows and a lot of Real Time Operating Systems accessible today.

IBM will accomplish the ZFx86 FailSafe® PC-on-a-Chip alone for ZF Micro Solutions at IBM´s Burlington, Vermont dent accomplishment facility. Over the activity of the acceding the parties may extend the accord to awning added products, potentially including new articles developed in affiliation with IBM Engineering & Technology Services division.

ZF affairs to activate sampling the ZFx86 cavity backward in the fourth agenda division of 2005 with aggregate assembly appointed to activate in the aboriginal division of 2006.

"Our alternative of IBM comes afterwards months of accurate analysis of the factors all-important to assure our barter of a defended antecedent of supply. The accord gives ZF a trusted accomplishment accomplice accustomed common as the arch chip technology aggregation in the apple and it will acquiesce us to plan, advance and bear arch articles to our barter now and in the future," said David L. Feldman, admiral and arch controlling administrator of ZF Micro Solutions.

"We apprehend that the alternate ambition of ZF and IBM to bear articles of the accomplished above and reliability, utilizing IBM´s world-class branch technology, will aftereffect in a acknowledged abiding relationship," said Tom Reeves, carnality president, Semiconductor Products for IBM Systems & Technology Group.

"This advertisement is accomplished account for Tri-M Systems and the hundreds of added ZF barter afflicted by National´s accommodation to cease assembly for ZF. We will resume assembly of several designs based on the ZFx86 as anon as new deliveries begin," said Doug Stead, President of Tri-M Systems, Inc. (www.Tri-M.com) one of ZF´s longstanding customers. "The absolute affection set of the ZFx86 charcoal different in the anchored bazaar and its renewed availability will acquiesce us to aggrandize into new markets," added Mr. Stead.


About ZF Micro Solutions

ZF Micro Solutions is a abreast captivated aggregation founded in 2002 by David Feldman, the architect of the PC/104 IEEE accepted and the 5 1/4 inch anatomy agency anchored Single Board Computer. Feldman pioneered FailSafe systems in 1995 if he founded a aggregation that bargain these baby anatomy agency boards to a individual cavity accumulation x86 PC functionality with ZF´s patented fail-safe technology. The ZFx86 is the alone cavity accessible with a complete apparatus for abating operation afterwards a arrangement software failure. The ZFx86 runs a lot of PC software after modification, is arranged with a abounding PC BIOS and boots by artlessly applying power.

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