Icera hires Mobile Phones CTO Industry heavyweight Rick Dingle joins Icera Semiconductor

Bristol, UK, 21 March 2005, Icera, the new cellular wireless semiconductor company, today announced the appointment of Rick Dingle as Vice President Platforms. Dingle, who was previously CTO at Phones, will lead Icera’s strategic platform development for cellular devices and further strengthen the management team as it prepares to introduce breakthrough processor and software baseband technology products to the mobile industry.

“Rick’s telecoms industry experience speaks for itself; at Siemens he brought over 50 mobile phones to market and managed the entire mobile R&D team globally. He has great insight into the issues facing mobile device manufacturers, strong relationships within the OEM industry and is the ideal person to establish Icera as a major cellular communications platform provider,” said Stan Boland, Icera President and CEO.

“I have been watching Icera for some time with great interest,” said Rick Dingle. “The company has real potential to become a global market leader. Icera has an incredibly strong team, a breakthrough technology and a clear strategy: to adopt a segmented approach to the market and to deliver compelling platform solutions with a low cost of ownership and implementation for mobile device manufacturers.”

Dingle has over 24 years’ telecoms industry experience. He started his career as a software engineer at Plessey, subsequently leading a number of software engineering teams at GEC and GPT. Dingle joined Mobile Phones in 1996, where he was responsible for driving the successful development of a number of global satellite terminals and leading GSM development teams. In 2001, he was appointed Senior Vice President Product Development and Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Mobile Phones where he had overall responsibility for building Siemens’ platform strategy and for worldwide R&D of all mobile telephony products. During this time, Dingle also sat on the supervisory board.

About Icera Inc: Founded in 2002 with the objective of building global market leadership in processor platforms for cellular broadband terminals, Icera has set the pace as the fastest growing semiconductor company in Europe. Icera develops breakthrough processor and software baseband technology for mobile devices, delivering high performance and unprecedented flexibility at extremely low power. Icera is incorporated in Delaware, USA, with design locations in the UK and France and offices in Japan. For more information, visit the Icera web site at www.icerasemi.com.

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Sally Doherty Icera Inc. Tel: +44 1454 284859 Email: [email protected]

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