RMI Corporation and Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture Announce Strategic Partnership...

Wed Jul 9, 2008 11:00pm EDT

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RMI Corporation and Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture Announce Strategic Partnership and Use of RMI Multi-core Multi-threaded Processors in Security Appliances

RMI CEO Joins Huawei-Symantec Leaders and Security Industry Expert
to Announce Partnership and JV's First High-Performance Unified
Security Gateway Product
CUPERTINO, Calif. & BEIJING--(Business Wire)--
RMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processor
Solutions for Networking, Communications and Media Rich Applications,
and Huawei-Symantec, a joint venture formed to develop leading-edge
security and storage appliances, today announced a Strategic
Partnership to utilize RMI's multi-core multi-threaded processors for
the J.V.'s storage and security appliances, including the USG9000 and
the USG6000. Huawei-Symantec also announced the introduction of the
Joint Venture's first unified security gateway device providing
industry leading performance.

The announcement was made earlier today at a press conference in
Beijing, China highlighting the significance of the Joint Venture and
its successful development activities and to showcase the world-class
R&D efforts between Huawei-Symantec and RMI to deliver the unified
security gateway device. Attending the press conference were Mr. Su
Li-Qing, vice president R&D, Huawei-Symantec, Mr. Behrooz Abdi,
president and CEO of RMI Corporation and Dr. Sunny Siu, president, RMI
Asia, and Dr. Binxing Fang, a CAE (Chinese Academy of
Technology/Engineering) Fellow.

"Huawei-Symantec was formed to bring two powerful forces in
networking and security together to deliver world-class products and
today's announcement highlights that success," said Mr. Su Li-Qing,
president of Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture. "Part of that success
includes the support from RMI and the advanced technical capabilities
that have allowed us to reach this milestone. We are grateful for this
strategic partnership with RMI."

The Huawei-Symantec joint venture was announced in May 2007
between Huawei Technologies, a leader in next-generation
telecommunications network solutions, and Symantec, a global leader in
infrastructure software to develop and distribute world-leading
security and storage appliances to global telecommunications carriers
and enterprises. The joint venture is intended to help carriers and
enterprises effectively address the constant need for innovation and
increased security risks by offering security and storage appliances
that are easy to implement and maximize value to customers. Those
appliances include the USG9000 and the USG6000 series of high
performance security gateways.

"RMI has made strong commitments to China early on, building up a
world-class business and technical organization with deep enterprise
and infrastructure expertise and we have worked closely with
Huawei-Symantec to bring high quality, leading edge products to market
in the shortest amount of time," said Behrooz Abdi, president and CEO,
RMI. "RMI applauds Huawei-Symantec on its success and we are proud to
be recognized as its strategic partner. We are committed to supporting
Huawei-Symantec as it moves towards the next growth phase."

About RMI Corporation

RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company and a leading
provider of high performance System-on-a-Chip Processor Solutions for
Communication and Media applications. RMI develops highly integrated,
feature-rich processors with advanced 32 and 64-bit architectures
addressing a wide variety of integrated next generation applications
for the Infrastructure, Enterprise and Consumer markets. RMI is
headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations
in Texas, United Kingdom, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More
information about RMI can be found on the company's website at
http://www.RMICorp.com.

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D. Christopher Keil, 408-434-5700
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