Global Semiconductor Alliance nominates Open-Silicon for industry excellence award

Notes and media contacts

About Open-Silicon:

Open-Silicon is a fabless Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) company that was founded to bring cost-effectiveness, predictability, and reliability back to the ASIC market. The Company designs and manufactures custom microchips for products used in consumers' day-to-day lives in the Cellular Wireless, Set-top Box, Digital Home, Computer, and Network Communication industries.

Open-Silicon's turnkey services include product definition, design engineering, wafer fabrication, package and assembly, test engineering and logistics. The company delivers custom microchips to the market with unprecedented predictability and reliability, allowing clients to create differentiated products with confidence in their ability to meet time to market needs.

Open-Silicon is led by a world class management team, each with an average of 21 years of semiconductor experience. The company has over 100 design wins, over 55 unique customers and has shipped over 30 million parts since inception. The Company is based in Milpitas, California and has over 100 employees (75% of them engineers) in 7 locations around the world.

About Unicorn Investment Bank:

Founded in May 2004 and based in Bahrain, Unicorn Investment Bank B.S.C. (c) (Unicorn) is an Islamic investment bank, with an international presence in the United States, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. Unicorn is built around six core business lines: Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Private Equity, Asset Management, Strategic Mergers & Acquisitions and Treasury. To date, Unicorn has advised, structured and successfully placed deals with a total value of over $3.5bn. The Bank has achieved consistent growth since its inception and has received widespread industry recognition for excellence and vision.

Media contacts:

Mai Aljishi
Corporate Communications
Unicorn Investment Bank
Phone: +973 17566214

Mary Khamasmieh
Buchanan Middle East
P.O. Box 282032 Dubai, UAE
Tel: 971 4 3698581
Fax: 971 4 3698556