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BEDFORD, Mass., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual property, today announced a new licensee: PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ:PMCS), a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, and customer premises equipment (CPE). PMC-Sierra is licensing Aware's StratiPHY2+(TM) technology for its newly announced ADSL2+ residential gateway solutions. "Combining Aware's field-proven StratiPHY2+ technology with PMC's leading-edge products for communications applications offers the market a superior ADSL2+ semiconductor solution," commented Luke Smithwick, Aware's vice president of DSL licensing. "PMC's family of production-ready reference designs for residential gateways exceeds the current market technology requirements for the delivery of advanced services such as quad-play, triple-play, video-over-DSL, and IPTV." "Aware is regarded as a key source for DSL intellectual property and has achieved broad acceptance through interoperability in the marketplace," commented Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing and applications for PMC-Sierra's Communications Products Division. "We chose to work with Aware's StratiPHY2+ because it contained all the requisite field-proven technology that enabled us to rapidly incorporate ADSL2+ into our new CPE product offerings." About StratiPHY2+ StratiPHY2+ is a complete ADSL silicon intellectual property platform, which contains all the requisite technology for semiconductor providers to rapidly integrate the ITU standards ADSL2 (G.992.3) and ADSL2+ (G.992.5) into their product offerings. StratiPHY2+ includes source code for Verilog or VHDL RTL, firmware source code, and reference design information to allow for faster time-to-market for next-generation customer premises solutions. StratiPHY2+ empowers suppliers of network processors, wireless LAN chipset and MPEG decoders to rapidly integrate ADSL, resulting in differentiated value-added products. More than 2 million ADSL2+ CPE units based upon StratiPHY2+ have shipped worldwide. Aware's entire line of StratiPHY platforms will be featured in Aware's booth at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (#16035) from June 5 - 7, 2006 in Chicago. For more information on Aware or StratiPHY2+ please visit Aware's website at http://www.aware.com/. PMC-Sierra will be demonstrating its new residential gateway platform in the Company's "Digital Home Experience" at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (#52043) from June 5 - 7, 2006 in Chicago. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com/digital-home / About Aware Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL technologies that enable broadband communications over existing telephone networks. Its solutions, including splitterless G.lite, full-rate ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, VDSL2, Bonded ADSL2+, Dr. DSL(R), StratiPHY(TM), StratiPHY-Bonded(TM), StratiPHY2+(TM), StratiPHY3(TM) and G.SHDSL, address central office as well as customer premise requirements. Aware is also a leading provider of standards- based biometric transaction and image compression software toolkits. More information can be found at http://www.aware.com/. Safe Harbor Warning Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL market. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, we depend on a limited number of licensees, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small number of customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, and our business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dr. DSL, StratiPHY, StratiPHY2+, StratiPHY3, and StratiPHY-Bonded are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Aware, Inc. CONTACT: Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc., +1-781-687-0695, Web site: http://www.pmc-sierra.com/digital-home Web site: http://www.aware.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/107679.html

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