Azuro Announces Record Sales in the First Half of 2009

Completes over 25 Tapeouts in Six Months and Launches Major New Product Offering
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Azuro, Inc., a provider of advanced implementation tools for nanometer chip
design, today announced record sales and revenue for the first six months of
2009.

"Azuro continues to gain momentum despite the tough economic climate," said Paul
Cunningham, CEO and co-founder of Azuro. "In the first half of this year, we
have seen some of our largest customers significantly increase their deployments
of PowerCentric, and we have added two of the top ten global chip companies as
new customers."

In the first half of 2009, Azuro also launched a major new product, Rubix, and
announced the inclusion of PowerCentric in TSMC`s new Integrated Sign-Off Flow.
Customer tapeouts continued to ramp at an exponential rate with over 25 new
chips completed since the start of the year.

About PowerCentric and Rubix

PowerCentric is a complete replacement for the clock tree synthesis (CTS) step
in a digital chip design flow. It reduces chip power by up to 20% and
dramatically increases designer productivity on designs with complex clock
networks.

Rubix is a complete replacement for the physical optimization and CTS steps in a
digital chip design flow. It increases chip speed by up to 20% and accelerates
time to market by up to two months.

For more information on Azuro`s products and the technology behind them, please
visit www.azuro.com.

About Azuro

Azuro is an electronic design automation (EDA) company supplying software tools
to design digital semiconductor chips. The company`s unique clock tree synthesis
and physical optimization technologies make chips faster, reduce chip power and
dramatically accelerate chip time to market. Customers of Azuro`s software
include Broadcom, Cambridge Silicon Radio, NVIDIA, NXP, STMicroelectronics, and
Texas Instruments. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara,
CA with R&D in Cambridge, UK, and is privately held.

Rubix and PowerCentric are trademarks of Azuro, Inc.

Azuro, Inc.
Marc Swinnen, 408-464-7350
marcs@azuro.com
or
Cayenne Communication
Linda Marchant, 919-451-0776
linda.marchant@cayennecom.com

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