Atmel Corporation and IVT Announce Bluetooth Collaboration

San Jose, CAC June 1, 2001. . . - Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) released today, in a joint announcement with IVT, the two companies have agreed to work together to offer total Bluetooth solutions.Atmel and IVT have signed an Agreement that allows Atmel to market and sell IVT Bluetooth stacks and profiles that run on top of Atmel's Bluetooth V1.1 certified baseband.
IVT currently offers Bluetooth Host Protocol Stack , and all the Bluetooth User Profiles running on top of the Atmel baseband. IVT Bluetooth protocol stacks and profiles have very small code size, and can be further integrated with Atmel baseband onto a single chip.This is extremely attractive for customers developing embedded applications because it allows the elimination of the host processor.

Dr. Qiang GAO, IVT CEO said, "We are very pleased to work closely with Atmel in the Bluetooth arena. With IVT Europe, IVT USA and our R&D center in Asia, we are well placed to support our customer base globally.After considerable testing by both IVT and Atmel, the IVT Bluetooth Stack is running well in conjunction with Atmel's Bluetooth Module. With the addition of the first commercially released Conformance and Interoperability Tester, IVT can offer Atmel's customers a turn-key solution of stacks, profiles, and tester"

Richard Bisset, Atmel's Product Marketing Director further commented, "Working with IVT now allows Atmel to offer our customers a complete Bluetooth solution. What is especially attractive is our customers can design in an Atmel based solution today and be in the market in a very short time. Based on our recently 1.1 certified baseband, a 1.1 certified RF transceiver from Silicon Wave and software from IVT, Atmel has a very powerful solution."

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Press Contacts:
Bob Henderson, Director of Marketing Communications bhenderson@atmel.com Tel: (408) 451-2855 Richard Bisset, Product Marketing Director rbisset@atmel.com Tel: (919) 462-6540 About IVT

IVT is a worldwide leader in providing a full range of Bluetooth? Solutions, including protocol stack source code, profiles source code, protocol analyzer, interoperability & conformance testers and a variety of reference designs. IVT was the first to release the Bluetooth Protocol Stack SDL/C source code (Bluelet™ ) in November 1999, followed by the first Bluetooth Conformance Tester (BlueTester™) in September 2000. IVT is a Bluetooth SIG Associate Member.

IVT has sales offices in Canada, Europe, USA, Korea, Taiwan, an R&D center in China, and a worldwide customer base. For more information, please visit www.ivtcorporation.com

Communications Contact:
For Asia/Pacific - Jack Yang - Jack.Yang@ivtcorporation.com
For Europe - Joe Amodio-joeamodio@aol.com
For USA - Arnold Lingwall - arnielingwall@msn.com
The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. USA , and licensed to IVT and Atmel.