PLX TECHNOLOGY RECEIVES INTEL CORP. RECOGNITION FOR PCI EXPRESS LEADERSHIP

Intel Honors PLX for Accomplishments in Validating, Boosting PCI Express 2.0 Efficiency on Nehalem Platform

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Feb. 17, 2009 -- PLX Technology (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leading global supplier of feature-rich PCI Express® (PCIe®) switch and bridge silicon, today announced it has been recognized by Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) for PLX’s outstanding contribution to advancing the PCI Express 2.0 interconnects on Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, platforms. Intel acknowledged PLX’s commitment to delivering PCI Express 2.0 switches that offer power and performance efficiency to the new quad-processor Nehalem platform, and by delivering essential multi-system and end-point interoperability.

“PLX has again collaborated with Intel to improve interoperability, this time with Intel’s new Nehalem server and workstation platforms,” said Jim Pappas, Intel director of server technology initiatives and industry enabling. “The upcoming Nehalem server will be Intel’s first mainstream server supporting PCI Express 2.0, which doubles I/O bandwidth. We are pleased PLX has worked closely with us in our IHV Optimization Lab and with our validation teams to help make PCI Express 2.0 successful on these new platforms.”

PLX, whose PCIe switching and bridging devices are used worldwide in virtually all industry segments, committed engineering resources and worked closely with Intel validation teams to test PLX ExpressLane™ PCIe Gen 2 (PCI Express 2.0) switching devices. This collaborative effort helped Intel successfully validate its Nehalem microarchitecture for several high-priority target applications.

“Working with Intel to validate PCI Express 2.0 on the Nehalem platform reflects how PLX’s interconnect technology is consistently meshed into emerging architectures for server, storage, communications, industrial-control, and other market segments,” said David Raun, PLX vice president of marketing and business development. “We greatly appreciate being recognized by Intel for these validation efforts, which will help expedite bringing to market system-level solutions based on the latest, most powerful processor and interconnect technologies.”

The Nehalem family of processors is supported by Intel’s Tylersburg family of chipsets with integrated support for PCIe Express 2.0. The processors are the first with Intel’s QuickPath™ interconnect technology and built-in memory controller.

The PLX ExpressLane family includes more than 30 PCIe switches and bridges, with more than three million devices already shipped to system and board manufacturers worldwide. PLX’s line of PCI Express 2.0 switches is fully compliant with the PCI Special Interest Group’s (PCI-SIG®) PCI Express Base 2.0 specification, and all are included on the PCI-SIG’s exclusive PCIe architecture Integrators List – a registry of qualified PCIe products and their providers that have completed rigorous compliance testing.