PLX TECHNOLOGY PCI EXPRESS GEN 2 SWITCH FAMILY NAMED FINALIST IN EDN INNOVATION COMPETITION

ExpressLane PEX 8600 Family Noted for Low Power, Flexibility, Groundbreaking New Features

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Feb. 6, 2008 -- PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leading global supplier of PCI Express® (PCIe®) I/O interconnect solutions, today announced its ExpressLane™ PEX 8600 family of PCIe Gen 2 switches has been selected as a finalist for the 2007 EDN Innovation Awards.

Editors at EDN, one of the most distinguished technology magazines in publication, selected the PEX 8600 family based on the switches' array of powerful features, including 5GT/s throughput, flexibility of lane and port configurations, and functionality in a wide range of next-generation applications. EDN also cited several PLX® technological breakthroughs in the PEX 8600 family: Read Pacing, which allows fair distribution of system bandwidth; Dynamic Buffering, a feature that optimizes the use of available PCIe switch memory; and Dual Cast, which enables data to be written simultaneously to two separate targets. See: http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=siteInfo&articleid=CA6523510&industryid=48661

This is the second consecutive year PLX PCIe switches have achieved finalist status in the EDN Innovation Awards, which honor outstanding engineering professionals and products. In addition to being a finalist in this year’s awards program, the PEX 8600 family also was named one of EDN’s “Hot 100” products for 2007. See: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6512870.html?text="pex+8600"

"It’s an honor to be acknowledged once again by EDN magazine for our commitment to and innovation in PCI Express technology," said Akber Kazmi, PLX product marketing director for PCIe switches. "PLX is proud of its leadership position in this technology and of being recognized for bringing technological advancements to the rapidly growing global PCI Express market."

PLX’s PCIe Gen 2 switch family, introduced in September 2007, presently includes five high-performance devices with unparalleled flexibility, power efficiency and space conservation, enabling enhanced designs of products for the graphics, backplanes, server, storage, adapter card, and embedded-systems markets. The family is comprised of the PEX 8648 (48 lanes, 12 ports), PEX 8632 (32 lanes, 12 ports), PEX 8624 (24 lanes, 6 ports), PEX 8616 (16 lanes, 4 ports) and PEX 8612 (12 lanes, 3 ports). They feature the lowest power dissipation (down to 2.0W), packet latency of just 140ns and a Flip-Chip-package footprint down to 19mm square, while being fully compliant with the PCIe based specification 2.0.

PLX's entire ExpressLane line of PCIe switches and bridges feature an industry-leading breadth of Gen 1 and Gen 2 switches ranging from five to 48 lanes and three to twelve ports, and PCI-/PCI-X-to-PCIe bridges, all of which are available now. Detailed information on the entire ExpressLane family can be found at www.plxtech.com/pcie