Wave Issue 9036 4/6/99 Article 8-01

***Artisan Free Library Program Ships OVER 200 Libraries to TSMC
(February 16)

Artisan Components announced that it has shipped over 200
libraries for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC)
0.25-micron process, with ten successful customer tape-outs to
date. The shipment of these libraries and the resulting tape-outs
prove Artisan's business model of providing foundry customers
with free libraries is gaining market acceptance. Two of the
companies with first-time silicon success are 3Dfx Interactive,
Inc. and NVIDIA Corporation.

Artisan and TSMC have been working together since last August
under the free library program to provide foundry customers with
a complete 0.25-micron library, eliminating the traditional non-
recurring engineering (NRE) costs, usage fees and other barriers
to starting a design process in advanced technologies.

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