Volume 6, April 2004

APLUS FLASH:
IN THE NEWS

Aplus Flash Technology celebrates its one year anniversary of operations in Shanghai

Shanghai, March 3, 2004 - Aplus Flash Technology recently celebrated its one-year anniversary of operations in Shanghai by holding a press conference and luncheon at the Riverfront Business Hotel in the Zhang Jiang High Tech district of Pudong, Shanghai. Over 30 guests from the semiconductors industry and 12 radio and print media were in attendance.

The news conference highlighted three of Aplus' major achievements in 2003. One, becoming one of the three IP partners names by SMIC, a leading, advanced pure-play foundry in China, alongside world renowned such as ARM and Mosys, who are No.1 and No.10 in worldwide IP revenue standings. The second milestone was the availability of Aplus' 0.35um EEPROM IP at SMIC for volume production in a wide density and Vdd offering. Aplus' EEPROM is most suitable for smart cards and SIM card applications, both of which are fast-growing technologies that are being more rapidly adopted globally. Lastly, Aplus has established a strategic partnership with a leading Chinese foundry to develop a revolutionary 0.18um and 0.13um Flash and EEPROM technology for embedded and stand-alone applications. Peter Lee, CEO, and Dr. Han-Rei Ma, Aplus' VP of Business Development and General Manager of the Shanghai office, led the presentation. >>More


Aplus continues to grab new design wins and IP customers
Aplus Flash Technology recently signed several new licensing customers for its line of non-volatile memory IP. These customers will be running on an upcoming shuttle at the end of April, embedding Aplus' 0.35um EEPROM IP into their designs for applications ranging from smart cards to computer modules to consumer microcontrollers.

Product & IP Update

Aplus has a variety of NVM IP offerings currently available for license, in a standard or customized design. We've currently won some new customers for our EEPROM and OTP IP worldwide, from Russia to Taiwan. To learn more about our NVM IP, contact our IP sales department at marketing@aplusflash.com.

Aplus would like to announce the availability of our 24C and 93C serial EEPROM for purchase. Please contact our product sales group to receive samples of our serial EEPROM for qualification. These products are used in a multitude of applications from computing modules, security key applications and more. The EEPROM datasheets are available in our products page under NVM Memory Products. Please contact our memory sales department at sales@aplusflash.com.

See our website for details and product specs.

Aplus is Hiring!

Aplus Shanghai is currently hiring for several open positions in engineering and testing. Please see our website for further details.

Aplus' New Look

We've redesigned our logo and newsletter to better organize and share our news with you. Please visit our newly redesigned website at www.aplusflash.com. Also look for our ads in the March 2004 newsletter from Monte Jade and CASPA's annual yearbook 2004. Your comments and suggestions are certainly welcome.

Editor's note: This newsletter is designed to bring you news of Aplus' activities and exciting opportunities - we conceived of the idea as we thought of how to best keep our customers, shareholders, partners and friends updated on Aplus' progress, while also sharing some broader knowledge in the field of NVM. We hope to publish a newsletter every month and hope that you'll enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy writing them! To subscribe to our newsletter, please click here with subscribe written in the subject line. To unsubscribe, please click here with unsubscribe written in the subject line.

Thank you and we look forward to bringing you further Aplus updates!