November 8, 2004 — "In other news related to Toshiba, Sequence Design (private) announced that Toshiba had used its "powergating optimization" technology to reduce "leakage" on a 90 nanometer design. We mention this to highlight the importance of "power design" EDA technology as one of the product categories that are doing relatively well, according to the EDA Consortium data. In Sequence's case, we believe it has been seeing more favorable bookings trends this year, in Asia/Pacific for instance, at accounts such as Matsushita, NEC, Samsung, and Toshiba."

Page 4, 08 November 2004 issue of "Software.Global - The Hard News on Software", a weekly publication by the Merrill Lynch Global Software Research Group.

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About Sequence

Sequence Design, Inc. enables system-on-chip designers to bring higher-performance and lower-power integrated circuits quickly to fabrication. Sequence's power and signal integrity software give its more than 130 customers the competitive advantage they need to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design.

Sequence has worldwide development and field service operations. The company was recently named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry. Sequence is privately held. Sequence is a member of Cadence Design Systems' Connections™ and Mentor Graphics' Open Door™ partnership programs. Additional information is available at http://www.sequencedesign.com/index.php.