RMI`s Superscalar Multi-core XLP Processor Family Gains Support from Wind River

Wind River`s Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks SMP Platforms Support Extends to
RMI`s Enterprise and Network Infrastructure Customers
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
At Interop 2009, RMI Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance
processors for communication and media rich applications announced today that
Wind River plans to support RMI`s newest generation Multi-core processor family,
the XLP Processor. Announced earlier today, XLP is the industry`s highest
performing processor core and Multi-core processor family driving unmatched
system and performance scalability.

The superscalar XLP Processor family drives performance levels at greater than
2.0 GHz and offers a 3x performance per watt improvement over previous
generation processors. RMI`s latest offering will bring about the most advanced
and most highly integrated multi-core processor in the industry while
maintaining the innovative multi-threading capabilities of RMI`s existing
processor families. The XLP Processor family, much like the XLR and XLS
Processors, combined with Wind River`s Platform for Network Equipment; Linux
Edition and VxWorks 6.6 products will include out-of-the-box board support
packages for RMI`s XLP Processor. Combined with Wind River On-Chip Debugging
JTAG support, these products will offer a comprehensive solution for the XLR
Processor, XLS Processor and the XLP Processor family and are optimized for
wireless, SMB, SOHO, SME and enterprise networking, wireless infrastructure and
service provider OEM equipment markets.

"Wind River is making significant investments in its software portfolio in order
to ease the adoption of multicore technologies in the embedded market," said
Roger Williams, vice president, Global Alliances, Wind River. "Wind River has
worked closely with RMI over the years to tightly integrate our runtime and
tools technologies with RMI's market leading multicore solutions, and will
continue this emphasis as part of the evolution of the XLP processor to provide
even greater performance and scalability benefits to our joint customers."

The XLP Processor is targeted at expanding the overall opportunity for RMI`s
Multi-core product offerings and enables a broad set of applications specific
features for customer use in security appliances, L4-L7 switching, storage
networking, 3G/4G wireless, small business networks, as well as several new
untapped markets. Early development work with the world`s leading storage,
networking, telecom, wireless and enterprise customers has been in place for
over 2 years.

For More Information

For more information about RMI Corporation`s Multi-core Multi-threaded
Processors with Wind River`s Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks SMP Platforms,
please visit: www.RMICorp.com.

About RMI

RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance
Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure,
Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless,
Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad
platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processor solutions with both 32/64-bit
architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to greater than 2.4 GHz. RMI is
headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas,
France, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. More information about
RMI can be found on the company's website at www.RMICorp.com.

© Copyright 2009 RMI Corporation. All rights reserved. RMI, the RMI logo, XLP,
XLR, XLS, SuperSoC and the other trademarks named on the RMI website are
trademarks of RMI Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

RMI Corporation
D. Christopher Keil, 408-434-5700
Sr. Director, Marketing
ckeil@RMICorp.com

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