Gennum Expands Sales Presence in India

Appoints CoreEL Technologies as New Sales Representative

BURLINGTON, ON, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) announced today it has expanded its global sales network with the addition of CoreEL Technologies, a premier technical sales representative in India. Based in Bangalore, CoreEL will provide local sales and technical support for Gennum's entire line of analog, mixed-signal and optical IC products, including the company's market-leading signal integrity solutions for video broadcast, networking, storage, telecommunications and high performance computing.

"India represents a critical growth region for Gennum as demand for 3DTV content climbs and data centers begin their transition to higher bandwidth standards such as 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet," said Klaus Mueller, vice president of global sales for Gennum Corporation. "CoreEL's extensive design services background and technology expertise ensure that our growing India customer base has access to exceptional, local service and support. We are confident this agreement will rapidly expand our market presence in this key technology area."

CoreEL Technologies has been providing solutions to customers in the defense, networking, semiconductors and industrial market segments for over 20 years. The company represents many high-profile IC, electronic design automation (EDA) software and semiconductor IP suppliers.

"Gennum's products complement our existing offering and enable us to offer differentiated, robust video broadcast and data communications solutions to customers throughout India," said Vishwanath Padur, vice president of sales and marketing, CoreEL. "Our customers seek world-class signal integrity solutions, and the addition of Gennum's 3 Gb/s SDI video, as well as high-bandwidth networking and storage IC solutions, ensure we can satisfy this demand."

About CoreEL

CoreEL Technologies is a hi-tech company with businesses spread across Design Services & Product Development, Distribution and Training. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, CoreEL is a leading provider of VLSI & Embedded System design services and Intellectual Property. Since its inception in 1999, CoreEL Technologies, a privately held corporation, has always strived to deliver quality solutions and support in all the business areas that it serves. These services include turn-key FPGA designs, turn-key systems design, high speed PCB design and manufacturing. These services are offered to a broad customer base comprising Defense, Networking, Semiconductors and Industrial market segments.

About Gennum

Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world's most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company's proven optical, analog and mixed-signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity. Recognized as an award winner for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, United States, Taiwan, India and the United Kingdom. www.gennum.com.

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