Wave Issue 0511 3/18/05 Article 4-01

***Explosive Growth Forecast by In-Stat in FCSP Market

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
March 15, 2005

The Field-Configurable Standard Product (FCSP) market continues
to be one of the few semiconductor product segments that
consistently posts year-over-year dollar growth, even in down
years, reports In-Stat. This market is forecast to grow from
$92.8 million in 2004 to $476.9 million by 2009. FCSPs are
typically high-volume, low-cost products, made for a wide variety
of end-use applications.

A recent report by In-Stat found the following:

-- Communications, both wired and wireless segments, will
dominate field-configurable standard product consumption,
with the majority of applications being networking and
telecom infrastructure, as well as a variety of wireless
consumer-oriented products.

-- Of the five major product field-configurable standard
product categories defined -- processor, DSP, PCI,
SerDes, memory and other -- the SerDes segment will
represent the largest dollar segment.

-- SRAM architecture will dominate FCSP shipments, followed
by anti-fuse architecture. However, in the longer term,
flash-based architecture will become dominant for size
and cost reasons.

The report, "Field-Configurable Standard Products (FCSPs):
Configure It Your Way" (#IN0501917DE), presents a comprehensive
analysis of the Field-Configurable Standard Product (FCSP)
market. The report forecasts future market growth and examines
consumption of six functional categories by geographic region,
along with comparisons of end-use consumption of this technology
by geographic region. Also included is a discussion of the
various players in the market, as well as those planning to enter
the market within the next 24 months. For more information on
this report, please visit:

www.instat.com/catalog/Scatalogue.asp?id=19