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ARC International Announces New Licensing Agreements With Leading Taiwanese Semiconductor Companies For Media-Centric Chip Design

ARC's Strategic Initiatives in Greater China Deepen its Penetration Of One of the Hottest Semiconductor Markets

HSINCHU, Taiwan, April 26, 2006 – On the heels of the sold out "ConfigCon Taiwan" developers conference and a series of other strategic initiatives in Greater China, ARC International (LSE: ARK) today announced three new licensing agreements with leading Taiwan-based semiconductor companies. All have adopted ARC's patented configurable subsystem or processor technology over competitive "fixed" architecture or configurable offerings. And, each customer is using ARC's products for leading-edge multimedia system-on-chip (SoC) design: Skymedi Corp., Taifatech, Inc. and VXIS Corp. Visit ARC's Website www.arc.com for more details about each new Taiwan-based licensing agreement announced today from the company's Hsinchu-based office.

Colley Hwang, founder and president of Digitimes – Taiwan's influential daily industry newspaper-cited in his ConfigCon keynote presentation how Taiwan's semiconductor industry is taking a leadership role in growth markets, such as digital TV and mobile media players. Keys to the future success of Taiwan's chip companies serving these segments, according to Mr. Hwang, will be their ability to leverage innovation and differentiation as competitive strategies. These are primary reasons for the growing adoption of configurability by Taiwan's fabless chip industry, and ARC's increasing momentum in Greater China.

"ConfigCon Taiwan highlighted the hunger of Taiwanese semiconductor companies for a new way to design next-generation SoCs," said Derek Meyer, ARC's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "ARC's patented configurable CPU technology fosters innovation and provides protection from cloning and piracy, which are benefits unmatched by 20th century fixed architectures. These new agreements are the result of the region's move toward configurability, and our ongoing efforts to educate the market on the 21st century's SoC design methodology."

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ARC International is the world leader in low-power, high-performance 32-bit configurable CPU/DSP processor cores, subsystems, real-time operating systems and development tools for embedded system design. ARC's patented configurable CPU technology assists customers in the development of next generation digital media, consumer and communications devices, resulting in lower cost, higher performance SoC products.

ARC International maintains a worldwide presence with corporate offices in San Jose, California, USA and Elstree, UK. The company has research and development offices located in England and the United States. For more information please visit the ARC website at: www.ARC.com. ARC International is listed on the London Stock Exchange as ARC International plc (LSE: ARK).

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