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Tewksbury, Mass. - May 18, 2010 - CHiL Semiconductor Corporation, a leading developer of high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits for the server, personal computer and high-volume computing market segments, announces its new Performance and Enthusiast GPU voltage regulator (VR) families for the graphics board and high performance computing (HPC) markets. These controllers provide the highest performance, efficiency and density in the performance graphics card markets.

Designed for the extremely demanding GPU cores emerging today from Nvidia and AMD, the new VR families incorporate such features as integrated overclocking, high performance telemetry, and dynamic phase control for optimal efficiency. Both product families control two separate voltages with very few parts, enabling the highest density designs.

The recent recognition that CHiL’s CHL8266 was used in Nvidia’s GTX 480 Fermi graphics card has drawn an enormous amount of interest and design activity from the graphics community,” said Larry Spaziani, CHiL’s vice president of business development. He added, “Many innovative graphics card leaders from both the NVidia and ATI camps have proceeded with higher performance overclocking designs using our full product family. Taking advantage of CHiL’s exceptional voltage regulation in critical overclocking situations has enabled some very aggressive designs. We expect this to continue as more vendors migrate from existing analog solutions to CHiL’s truly digital control techniques.”

The Performance family is offered in 28 and 40 pin QFN packages, and contains a full I2C control and telemetry bus, easy to use design software, and the smallest total VR solution offered. The Enthusiast family adds further levels of overclocking and telemetry as well as the ability to control exact current and power levels from up to three separate +12V rails, enabling modern graphics cards to safely maximize the amount of current from separate +12V connectors in high performance systems.

Both product families offer 2-wire voltage control with pre-loaded VID codes, enabling developers to tune into the correct GPU core and frame buffer voltages. The products offer overcurrent protection, as well as under- and over-voltage protection. They also contain a unique new second level overcurrent protection feature, enabling GPUs to safely enter turbo-mode for maximum performance. Developers can also choose to lock or enable overclocking for their customers, using CHiL’s many levels of code protection.

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About CHiL Semiconductor

CHiL Semiconductor Corporation develops high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits primarily targeted at servers, personal computers and other high-volume computing market segments. CHiL Semiconductor’s devices tightly integrate digital technology, precisely monitoring and controlling the power management process. Providing unique, intelligent features, CHiL devices yield significant system power efficiency and performance gains, while reducing system design and complexity. For more information, please visit www.chilsemi.com.

Tewksbury, Mass. - February 22, 2010 – CHiL Semiconductor Corporation, a leading developer of high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits for the server, personal computer and high-volume computing market segments, announces a breakthrough in high efficiency computing voltage regulator (VR) solutions for CPU, GPU, and DDR applications.

Now configured to optimize efficiency from the lowest idle state to the highest operating state of today’s high performance server, graphics and desktop solutions, CHiL’s next generation true-digital power algorithms have increased efficiency up to 15 percent, especially at low loads.
“CHiL’s engineering team is completely focused on delivering the industry’s best efficiency,” said chief executive officer Ram Sudireddy. “While some solutions provide either high efficiency or exceptionally fast response time, CHiL’s true digital power techniques deliver both. CHiL’s solution reaches new levels of overall efficiency and power savings and the ultimate in flexibility by balancing cost, efficiency, size and performance. This allows our customers to ultimately control their product performance.”

When applied to server class products, CHiL’s efficiency-improving techniques can save up to 85 watts per server card at peak operation, and 40 watts during typical operation. In data centers that operate 24/7, this translates to annual savings of 350 to 700kWh per board, resulting in significantly reduced power, heat and operating costs.

Throughout the entire operating range, CHiL’s variable gate drive algorithm adjusts the gate drive voltage to minimize gate drive losses at low operating loads, and optimize conduction losses at high loads.

In idle state, CHiL’s proprietary discontinuous-mode operation requires no sensing circuitry and can be configured digitally to optimize performance. In low current modes, the automatic dynamic phase control optimizes the number of operation phases to minimize power losses. Simultaneously, the non-linear digital transient response, known as adaptive transient algorithm, or ATA, can easily respond to the processor, instantly increasing its load.

CHiL true-digital algorithms can be applied to readily available off-the-shelf components, and do not rely on specific, often costly, semiconductor products to achieve these exceptional power savings.

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Kristin Nugent 617.367.0100 ext. 148 knugent@gr2000.com

About ChiL Semiconductor
CHiL Semiconductor Corporation develops high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits primarily targeted at servers, personal computers and other high-volume computing market segments. CHiL Semiconductor’s devices tightly integrate digital technology, precisely monitoring and controlling the power management process. Providing unique, intelligent features, CHiL devices yield significant system power efficiency and performance gains, while reducing system design and complexity. For more information, please visit www.chilsemi.com.

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Tewksbury, Mass. - February 22, 2010 – CHiL Semiconductor Corporation, a leading developer of high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits, announces that Thomas R. Macdonald has joined its board of directors. Mr. Macdonald has held a range of general management and high level strategic microprocessor and platform marketing management positions since joining Intel in 1988.

Mr. Macdonald is currently a vice president of Intel’s Architecture Group and general manager of the Platform Components Group, where he is responsible for Intel server, workstation, and storage chipsets, firmware, and platform technologies. He previously served as general manager of Intel’s Advanced Components Division. Mr. Macdonald has been marketing director for the Intel486™ processor family, the Intel® Itanium® processor family, and for the Intel’s Server Group, where he was responsible for all platform and product marketing and planning, including launching Intel’s first server-optimized processor, the Intel® Xeon® processor.

Mr. Macdonald received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society for engineering, and the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for business.

“I was excited to join CHiL’s board of directors because of the quality of the management team as well as the innovative new product offerings that have the promise of significantly optimizing server efficiency while at the same time delivering system level performance to the industry,” said Mr. Macdonald. “I’m looking forward to working with the team as it rolls out its innovative product line.”

According to Ram Sudireddy, CHiL’s chief executive officer, “We are delighted to add someone with Mr. Macdonald’s leadership skills and industry expertise to our board.” He added, “CHiL is ramping up significantly in 2010, as we introduce our new family of next generation high efficiency power management products. We look forward to tapping Mr. Macdonald’s considerable industry wide expertise.”

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Kristin Nugent 617.367.0100 ext. 148 knugent@gr2000.com

About CHiL Semiconductor Corporation

Founded in 2006, CHiL Semiconductor Corporation develops high-performance, mixed-signal power management integrated circuits primarily targeted at servers, personal computers and other high-volume high-density computing market segments. CHiL’s devices tightly integrate digital power technology, precisely monitoring and securely controlling the power management process. Providing significant innovations in architecture, control and monitoring, CHiL devices help developers achieve high power efficiency and performance gains, while reducing system design time and complexity.

San Jose, CA – January 18, 2010 — Tensoft, a leading end-to-end ERP, supply chain and revenue management software solution provider for the high tech industry, started the new year with a bang by adding two impressive new fabless semiconductor companies, CHiL Semiconductor and Syndiant, to their client list. Both companies selected Tensoft after exhaustive product and vendor evaluations.

“We continue to log impressive sales wins even in these tough economic times because Tensoft solutions improve customer productivity and sharpen competitive attributes. We help them to ensure their success - now and in the future,” said Tensoft President and CEO, Bob Scarborough. “Tensoft solutions help to make companies better, smarter and faster, ensuring enhanced productivity and sharper competitiveness.”

Syndiant manufactures the world’s smallest and highest-resolution light modulating chips used in ultra-portable projectors that are small enough to embed in a cell phone. The company chose Tensoft FSM and Microsoft Dynamics GP end-to-end ERP and supply chain solution using Tensoft’s hosted subscription model. “We were impressed with Tensoft’s end-to-end solution for the fabless semiconductor industry, and its ability to scale with us as we grow. Our business is growing very quickly right now, and we expect that our needs will evolve in unexpected ways, since that’s the nature of our industry,” said Tupper Patnode, V.P. Operations for Syndiant. “Tensoft’s solution will allow us to scale our ERP software solution investment while enabling us to ‘turn on a dime’ when market needs necessitate a rapid response.”

CHiL Semiconductor, a leader in power management chips for computer & motherboard manufacturers, selected Tensoft to implement a complete, end-to-end ERP and supply chain solution. The CHiL on-premise solution includes Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management (FSM) and Microsoft Dynamics GP, as well as Tensoft’s Revenue and Deferral Management for Distribution Channels (RDM/D), Multi-National Consolidation (MNC) and High Tech Dashboard. “Selecting and implementing the right ERP software solution is a long-term investment for the future of any business, so we approached this decision very carefully. We were looking for a product suite with both industry depth and a broad suite of functionality, as well as a vendor who will be a trusted advisor to our team,” said CHiL Chief Financial Officer Marc Jones. “Tensoft’s solution suite will enable us to streamline our current processes, increase visibility and auditability, and seamlessly integrate with our supply chain. We look forward to working with Tensoft’s implementation team, and to participating in the Tensoft User Community.”

About Tensoft
Tensoft, Inc. specializes in end-to-end ERP solutions for technology companies. Delivered either on-demand as SaaS or on-premise, Tensoft offers ERP, supply chain and revenue management software products to customers worldwide - offering them significant improvements in the areas of productivity, visibility and compliance. Tensoft is based in San Jose, California. For more information, go to http://www.tensoft.com or call (888) 450-4030 X406.

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