NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that its market-leading families of multi-core, multi-threaded processors have been designed into multiple equipment, from eNodeB base stations to Gateways, that are deployed in NTT DOCOMO’s commercial LTE mobile network in Japan. NTT DOCOMO announced on June 8, 2010 that it has begun verification of its new commercial mobile network system based on the LTE protocol in the Tokyo area, and is expected to enter full-scale launch of the extra-high-speed LTE commercial service in December 2010.

NTT DOCOMO’s 2GHz network system comprises dual-mode WCDMA and LTE base stations, LTE core network equipment and LTE-enabled mobile devices. Compatibility with W-CDMA will enable seamless handover for devices as they move between LTE and W-CDMA service areas in the network. As the leading mobile wireless operator in Japan, DOCOMO expects to confirm 5MHz-bandwidth throughput for 37.5 Mbps downlinks and 12.5 Mbps uplinks, followed by 10MHz-bandwidth throughput for maximum 75 Mbps downlinks and 25 Mbps uplinks in selected test areas.

“We congratulate NTT DOCOMO on the launch of the LTE network in Tokyo, and are excited to recognize the adoption of our industry-leading multi-core processors in Japan’s next-generation mobile infrastructure,” said Behrooz Abdi, executive vice president and general manager at NetLogic Microsystems. “Our high performance multi-threaded architecture has uniquely positioned us as a leader in intelligent LTE silicon solutions, and we are glad to see our products being designed into virtually every node of the LTE mobile infrastructure at multiple carriers worldwide.”

The exponential growth in global mobile traffic, IP-based smart phones, and rich applications and services is driving carriers to upgrade mobile infrastructure networks from the third-generation (3G) HSPA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA to fourth-generation (4G) LTE technology over the next several years in order to provide consumers with higher bandwidth services, to lower capital and operating expenses for carriers, and to mitigate the stress that mobile Internet services are placing on existing networks.

NetLogic Microsystems provides an end-to-end wireless infrastructure solution with its market-leading portfolio of multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, Layer 7 content processors, network search engines and 10 Gigabit Ethernet PHY devices that offers customers unprecedented breadth, depth and scalability to develop systems from mobile edge to packet core.

NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core, multi-threaded processors offer a rich set of features and functionality with unprecedented performance and power for embedded telecommunications, enterprise, data center, security and storage applications. These processors integrate up to eight high-performance MIPS64^® cores, each with four-way simultaneous multi-threading, for a total of 32 fine-grain processor threads to mitigate latency, improve computational efficiency and throughput for network data plane and control plane processing in base stations, eNodeB, RNCs, gateways, switches, routers, ATCA and AMC service cards. The processors also offer a best-in-class packet management, packet distribution and network accelerator engine, an intelligent Fast Messaging Network™ to maximize on-chip communications bandwidth, a superior memory sub-system, high-speed interconnects, and a broad set of acceleration engines. This enables NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core processors to support billions of in-flight messages and packet descriptors between all on-chip elements. The processor family is supported by a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) that contains reference and production-ready software components, which enables customers to accelerate time-to-market.

The knowledge-based processors from NetLogic Microsystems integrate up to 128 high-performance knowledge-based processing engines, and includes an enhanced Intelligent Load Balancing Engine (ILBE) to efficiently allocate multiple tasks and communicate among all the 128 knowledge-based processing engines. The knowledge-based processing engines and ILBE are tightly coupled with integrated advanced Sahasra^® Algorithmic Engines (SAEs) to dramatically lower the power consumption of search processing. These industry-leading processors also integrate an innovative Range Encoding Engine (REE), which employs advanced one-hot and fence encoding algorithms to implement range encoding that allows customers to effectively double the efficiency of performing port range inspection.

NetLogic Microsystems’ single-, dual- and quad-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PHY devices deliver the highest performance and lowest power consumption for next-generation switches, routers and blade servers addressing the data center, enterprise networking, storage and service provider markets. NetLogic Microsystems’ PHY devices are targeted at SFP+ and 10GBASE-KR backplane applications, and offer power savings and footprint reduction over competing solutions. In addition, the PHY devices integrate its industry-leading electronic dispersion compensation (EDC), pre-emphasis on the 10G transmit lane and forward error correction (FEC) technology, as well as offer an ultra low-power mode which allows customers to power down certain operations on chip to further reduce power consumption.

NetLogic Microsystems’ NETL7™ Layer 7 knowledge-based processors use Intelligent Finite Automaton (IFA) technology to accelerate packet content inspection, delivering significant performance, power and cost advantages over software-based approaches, and natively perform stateful cross-packet inspection in hardware. In addition, the NETL7 processors integrate on-chip memory to provide over 100 Terabits per second (Tbps) of ultra-low latency access bandwidth to on-chip rule databases, allowing the processors to accelerate complex and iterative content inspection while eliminating the need to provision for the high-latency and costly off-chip memory that are required by competing solutions. NETL7 Layer 7 knowledge-based processors enable wire-speed inspection of every bit in every packet, a requirement for comprehensive, best-in-class application-aware solutions for next-generation mobile wireless, data center, enterprise, service provider and small/midsize business networks.

About NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks. NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks. NetLogic Microsystems’ market-leading product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, content processors, network search engines, ultra low-power embedded processors and high-speed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY solutions. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). NetLogic Microsystems is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices and design centers throughout North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call +1-650-961-6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

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