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Advanced Circuits Named One of Colorado's Fastest-Growing Technology Companies for the Sixth Consecutive Year

October 05, 2004 Denver - AURORA - Advanced Circuits, the only quick-turn printed circuit board manufacturer with easy, real-time customer service, has been named to Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for the sixth consecutive year. Advanced Circuits is one of only four elite companies in Colorado to receive this recognition for five years or more.

Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services, ranked the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the Colorado area based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 1998-2003.

"Although the last three years have been challenging for this industry we have continued to experience phenomenal growth," said Huston. "This continued success has been a result of our commitment to producing high quality, quick turn PCBs and our focus on developing excellent relationships with our customers."

Advanced Circuits' increase in revenues from 1998 to 2003 resulted in a 25th overall ranking in the Fast 50 for Colorado. The average increase in revenues among companies who made the Fast 50 for this region was 708 percent.

To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 1998 and $1,000,000 in 2003; must be public or private companies headquartered in North America; and be a "technology company," defined as owning proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues (using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify), and/or devoting a significant proportion of revenues to research and development of technology.

Winners of the 20 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America's top 500 fastest-growing technology companies. For more information on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

About Advanced Circuits

Since 1989, Advanced Circuits has been a quick-turn printed circuit board manufacturer that specializes in producing quick-turn PCBs. Unlike other quick-turn printed circuit board companies, Advanced Circuits combines real-time online service with personalized customer care. Customers can talk to a live representative, or go online to get quotes, place orders and check status 24 hours a day. In addition, the company offers free design for manufacturability checks, obtaining results within minutes, at www.FreeDFM.com. With no minimum quantity requirement, Advanced Circuits offers same-day delivery with standard delivery of three days. For more information, visit http://www.4pcb.com, or call 800-979-4PCB.

About Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche refers to Deloitte & Touche LLP and related entities. Deloitte & Touche is the U.S. national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.deloitte.com/us.

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Atmel Adds Functionality to Its Smart RF Wireless Data Transceiver

New Cost-Effective 433/868/915 MHz Transceiver Is Directly Replaceable in Production

GRENOBLE (FRANCE), 11 May. (PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today a shrink version of its popular AT86RF211 single-chip RF transceiver with new features and 100% hardware/firmware compatibility with its predecessor, enabling cost reduction through direct in-production replacement.

The AT86RF211S combines both the RF robustness with transmission reliability and a proven time-to-market solution due to ease of PCB design implementation. It is particularly suited for alarm and security systems, home automation systems, automatic meter reading and other wireless applications. The single-chip transceiver lets designers focus on low-power very long range applications, and is optimized for license-free ISM band operations in the 400 to 950 MHz frequency range.

"Because of Atmel's proprietary RF technology, the device registers enhanced technical performance including its +16 dBm output power, the highest in the market for such devices, as well as 20 percent reduction in current consumption and improved phase noise," said Eric Mercier, Atmel's RF Marketing & Application Leader for ISM RF products. "It maintains the ease and upgrade of implementation of its predecessor. No RF expertise or complex impedance matching is required so migration and upgrade efforts are reduced to a minimum."

New features accessible through software include a higher data rate up to 128 kbps, a bandwidth up to 250 kHz specifically tailored to applications for the American market. A 1 MHz to 10 MHz clock output to feed the companion microcontroller and a Carrier Sense is provided on a programmable dedicated pin.

The AT86RF211S is available today and pricing starts at US$2.5 in large quantities. Reference designs are available upon request.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions. Focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere You Are(R)

NOTE: Atmel logo(R) and combinations thereof, and Everywhere You Are(R) are registered trademarks, and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information

For further information on Atmel's Smart RF product family, go to http://www.atmel.com/products/SmartRF/ Information specific to the AT86RF211S can be retrieved at http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/datasheets.asp?family_id=651 Press Contacts Sylvie Mattei, Communications Manager, Atmel Grenoble Tel: +33-4-76-58-30-25, E-mail: sylvie.mattei@gfo.atmel.com

Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe Tel: +33-1-30-60-70-68, Fax: +49-71-31-67-24-23 E-mail: veronique.sablereau@atmel.com

Ford Kanzler, Manager of Corporate Press Relations - USA and Asia Tel: +1-408-436-4343, Email: fkanzler@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com Source: Atmel Corporation

Contact: Sylvie Mattei, Communications Manager, Atmel Grenoble, +33-4-76-58-30-25, or sylvie.mattei@gfo.atmel.com, or Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe, +33-1-30-60-70-68, or fax, +49-71-31-67-24-23, or veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, or Ford Kanzler, Manager of Corporate Press Relations - USA and Asia, +1-408-436-4343, or fkanzler@atmel.com, all of Atmel Corporation

Epson Inkjet Technology Used to Fabricate Ultra-Thin Multilayer Circuit Board

Tokyo (JCN) - Seiko Epson (TSE: 6724) has announced that it has succeeded in leveraging its proprietary inkjet technology to develop what the company believes is the world's first ultra-thin 20-layer circuit board.

Multilayer circuit boards are normally produced by using a photolithography process to pattern a copper foil bonded to a base board.

Epson recently succeeded in producing a 20-layer circuit board sample by using an inkjet system to alternately "draw" patterns and form layers on the board using two types of ink: a conductive ink containing a dispersion of silver micro-particles measuring from several nanometers to several tens of nanometers in diameter, and a newly developed insulator ink.

The inkjet-based manufacturing process has many advantages over a traditional photolithography process. It uses a far lower volume of materials, since patterns are formed only in areas where they are needed, not over the entire substrate. Furthermore, it is a dry process, so virtually no liquid waste is created.

The new process will enables low-cost, high-density multilayer circuit boards to be produced via a green manufacturing process with a light environmental load.

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