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Tilera Selected as Runner-up for the Silicon Valley Business Journal Emerging Tech Award

SAN JOSE, Calif. - November 2, 2007 - Tilera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company developing the breakthrough Tile Architecture™ processor family, was honored as the runner up at the first annual Emerging Tech awards, given by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal on Thursday night in a ceremony at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Tilera Corp. was selected as the runner-up for the judges' award "for its development of TILE64, a new architecture that can harness the processing power of hundreds of cores on a single chip," according to James MacGregor, Business Journal publisher. Tilera came in second behind Menlo Park-based Artificial Muscle Inc., which was honored for its development of SmartMove -- a polymer that expands and contracts like a muscle in response to electricity.

Stories about the Emerging Tech awards and profiles of all the companies honored are in the Nov. 2 issue of the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

About Tilera
Tilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company and the industry leader in highly scalable multicore embedded processor design. Tilera's processors are based on a new mesh architecture developed at MIT that scales to hundreds of full-featured cores on a single chip and provides an unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility. Founded in October 2004, Tilera launched its first product, the 64-core TILE64 processor in August 2007. Tilera is venture funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Walden International, Columbia Capital and VentureTech Alliance. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and operates a research and development facility in Westborough, Mass.

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