PLX EXPERTS TO DELIVER PCI EXPRESS TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS AT MAJOR U.S., ASIA CONFERENCES

Industry Leader to Cover Wide-Ranging Technical Subjects at ATCA Summit, Embedded System Conference, Freescale Technology Forum

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Oct. 14, 2008 -- PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leading global supplier of PCI Express® (PCIe®) switch and bridge silicon, today announced it was chosen to deliver a range of technical presentations at several upcoming industry conferences in the United States and China. PLX will share its PCIe technology, development and market expertise at the ATCA Summit, Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) and Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) events in October and November of this year.

The ATCA Conference will take place in Santa Clara, Calif., where Shreyas Shah, PLX® chief systems architect, will present "Multi-Root I/O Virtualization Unleashes PCI Express Power in ATCA Systems," which addresses how virtualization enhances the performance of ATCA-based backplanes. (Oct. 21, www.advancedtcasummit.com/)

Ash Aziz, senior applications engineer at PLX, will deliver at ESC, in Boston, "Virtualization in Embedded Systems," which covers how I/O virtualization can efficiently manage traffic and provide quality of service to multi-core-processor embedded systems. (Oct. 27, www.cmp-egevents.com/web/escb)

At FTF, in Beijing, China, Nick Ma, applications engineer for PLX, will present “Evolution, Deployment and Challenges of PCI Express-based Freescale Processors,” which addresses the relevant PCIe design benefits within the Freescale environment and the broad variety of PCIe connectivity end-points. (Nov. 5, www.freescale.com/ftf)

“PLX is recognized worldwide as the leader in PCI Express technology and products, as well as an expert in the needs of manufacturers using this powerful interconnect technology in products serving virtually all industry segments,” said David Raun, PLX vice president of marketing and business development. "Shreyas, Ash and Nick collectively have more than a half-century of relevant industry experience, so attendees at their presentations will glean an essential understanding of developing PCI Express technologies and their role in this dominant interconnect ecosystem.”

PLX entered the PCIe market in 2001 and since then has developed the industry’s broadest family of PCIe Gen 1 and Gen 2 switching and bridging solutions, with more than three million chips already shipped. PLX experts have presented at numerous industry conferences and authored several-dozen articles on PCIe and related interconnect-technology topics for top global trade publications.