NetLogic Microsystems Names Chris O'Reilly as Vice President of Marketing

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL), the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced the appointment of Chris O’Reilly as its vice president of marketing. In his new role, O’Reilly will be responsible for the company’s product marketing, technical marketing, product roadmap and definition, and business partnerships. O’Reilly was most recently senior director of marketing in the company, and previously served as director of sales for the Asia Pacific region and senior marketing manager since he joined NetLogic Microsystems in 1999. Prior to NetLogic Microsystems, O’Reilly was product marketing manager at Hitachi where he was responsible for the ASIC, microprocessors and microcontrollers product lines. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering degree from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. "Chris has played an instrumental role in the success of the company in the past 8 years in various sales and marketing roles, and his extensive experience and leadership will be extremely valuable in his new role as we expand both our customer base and product lines,” said Ron Jankov, president and chief executive officer of NetLogic Microsystems. "Chris’ promotion from within the company is a clear reflection of the depth and strength of our team as a whole.” "NetLogic Microsystems is uniquely positioned to expand its leadership in knowledge-based processing and to benefit from the growth in 10-Gigabit Ethernet, IPTV, mobile broadband access and Layer 7 application networking,” said Chris O’Reilly. "I am excited about my new role in the company and look forward to my continued collaboration with the team to further grow our revenue and worldwide customer base.” About NetLogic Microsystems NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETL), a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Mountain View, California, designs, develops and markets high performance processors for a variety of advanced wireline and mobile wireless networking systems, such as routers, switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, network security appliances, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems' processors employ an advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge or signature database containing information on the network, as well as applications and content that run on the network, to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Processors from NetLogic Microsystems significantly enhance the ability of networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as high-definition video delivery over the Internet (IPTV), voice transmission over the Internet (VoIP), unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPN), rich content delivery over mobile wireless networks, and streaming video and audio. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650.961.6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com. NetLogic Microsystems and the NetLogic Microsystems logo are trademarks of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.