Spansion Celebrates Official Opening of Security and Advanced Technology Division...

Spansion Celebrates Official Opening of Security and Advanced Technology
Division in Milan
Ceremony Unveils Plans for Highest Performance NAND Flash Memory

MILAN, Italy, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spansion Inc.
(Nasdaq: SPSN), the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory
solutions, today announced the official opening of its Security and Advanced
Technology Division (SATD) headquarters in Agrate Brianza (Milan) with a
ceremony for employees, customers, government and community officials. During
the event, Spansion unveiled its upcoming MirrorBit(R) ORNAND2(TM) product
family.
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The SATD division, led by Carla Golla, executive vice president for
Spansion, employs more than 55 leading scientists and experts in the field of
silicon design, product development, product engineering, marketing and
manufacturing control. The new facility is strategically located to leverage
the pool of experienced research and development talent in the European
population, and is in close proximity to Spansion's European customers,
including some of the world's top handset, automotive, consumer electronics
and other high technology manufacturers.
"The official opening of our SATD division underscores our commitment to
bring differentiation and value-added solutions to the wireless and embedded
markets," said Carla Golla, executive vice president, Security and Advanced
Technology Division. "It is a very exciting time for us as we unveil our next
generation data storage technology, MirrorBit ORNAND2, and bring together the
best minds in the industry to design and implement value-added solutions."
Spansion Security and Advanced Technology Division
The Security and Advanced Technology Division, headquartered in Agrate
Brianza (Milan), employs more than 55 leading scientists and experts in the
field of silicon design, product development, product engineering, marketing
and manufacturing control. The division was created to lead Spansion's efforts
to develop differentiated Flash memory solutions and further expand the
applicability of its MirrorBit(R) technology in the high-value embedded and
wireless markets. SATD is also responsible for driving the strategic direction
and deployment of Spansion secure memory solutions including the company's
MirrorBit HD-SIM(TM) product family.
MirrorBit ORNAND2 Product family
With high performance and low cost, Spansion's differentiated MirrorBit(R)
ORNAND2(TM) product family is in a unique position to address the increasing
demands for data storage in wireless and embedded markets. Based on Spansion's
proprietary MirrorBit charge-trapping technology, MirrorBit ORNAND2 features
the NAND industry's smallest die size and is designed to support 25 percent
faster write performance and up to twice the read performance than floating
gate NAND. The technology also offers 25 percent fewer process steps than the
first generation MirrorBit ORNAND and MirrorBit NOR solutions.
About Spansion
Spansion is a leading Flash memory solutions provider, dedicated to
enabling, storing and protecting digital content in wireless, automotive,
networking and consumer electronics applications. Spansion, previously a joint
venture of AMD and Fujitsu, is the largest company in the world dedicated
exclusively to designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling
Flash memory solutions. For more information, visit http://www.spansion.com.
Cautionary Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including statements regarding the suitability of products for specific
applications or devices and the performance of products. Investors are
cautioned that the forward-looking statements in this release involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
the company's current expectations. The company urges investors to review in
detail the risks and uncertainties in the company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including but not limited to the company's Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2007 and Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended June 29, 2008. The company assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements or information included in this press release.
Spansion(R), the Spansion Logo(R), MirrorBit(R), MirrorBit(R) Eclipse(TM),
ORNAND(TM), ORNAND2(TM), HD-SIM(TM), Spansion(R) EcoRAM(TM), and combinations
thereof, are trademarks of Spansion LLC. Spansion, the Spansion Logo and
MirrorBit are registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other names used are
for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
SOURCE Spansion Inc.

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