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BiTMICRO to Debut 416GB IDE Solid State Drive Packed in 2.5-inch Rugged Hard Disk Drive Footprint

New Breed of Proprietary ASICs Enables E-Disk Altima ATA-133 Flash Solid State Drive to Achieve Unprecedented Performance in its Class - 133MB/sec Burst with 100MB/sec Sustained Read and Write Rates and Over 20,000 IOPS

Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition, London, UK, September 11, 2007 — With a goal of taking solid state storage to unprecedented levels of performance, capacity and reliability, BiTMICRO Networks, the pioneer in intelligent IDE/ATA, SCSI, VME, and Fibre Channel flash solid state drive storage solutions, today announced at the Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition in London, UK details regarding the forthcoming release of the E-Disk^® Altima™ family of flash solid state drives (SSDs).

The E-Disk^® Altima™ solid state drive series is a realization of BiTMICRO’s goal to deliver a comprehensive set of solid state disk technologies for mainstream enterprise, commercial, industrial and military storage. Featuring the company’s cutting-edge EDSA™ flash I/O controller and LUNETA™ memory flash interface ASICs, E-Disk^® Altima™ solid state drives bring high-capacity and high-performance yet cost-effective solid state storage to servers, storage networks, as well as other storage applications that are subjected to extreme operating conditions.

The first product to be released to market is the 2.5-inch E-Disk^® Altima™ E2A133BL ATA-133 model, a flash memory-based solid state drive designed for military, industrial and commercial users who are looking for faster and bigger storage upgrades for time-tested PATA-based systems. This 2.5-inch ATA/ATAPI-7 PATA solid state drive, supporting PIO 0-4, DMA 0-2 and UDMA 0-6 data transfer modes, will utilize the latest high-density single level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory chips to deliver an astounding storage capacity of up to 416 GB, while providing 133MB/sec burst with up to 100MB/sec sustained Reads and Writes and up to 20,000+ IOPS. With operating temperatures ranging from –40 degrees C to +85 degrees C, the E-Disk^® Altima™ ATA-133 solid state drive is suitable for 24x7 deployment even in extremely hostile environments.

“For storage users in the military and industrial markets, high disk capacities equate to longer hours, even days, of non-stop operation. Just like enterprise users, these markets desire continually increasing drive capacities to meet exponential growth in their storage requirements,” remarked Rudy Bruce, Exec. VP for Marketing and Sales and CMO at BiTMICRO Networks. “The launch of the E-Disk^® Altima™ series of cutting-edge solid state drives will usher in a new computing era, where solid state mass storage will combine with multi-core processors to deliver unprecedented levels of performance required by next-generation operating systems and applications,” Bruce explained.

Visit BiTMICRO Networks at Booth 1011A of DSEi 2007. The event runs from September 11 - 14, 2007 at the ExCel Convention Center in London, United Kingdom. Dubbed as the world's largest fully integrated defense exhibition, DSEi brings together senior international visitors and military influencers in an optimal business environment.

Pricing and Availability

Sampling for the E-Disk^® Altima™ ATA-133 solid state drive is expected to begin in Q1 2008 and ship by March 2008 in capacities ranging from 4GB up to 416GB. For pricing and more E-Disk^® Altima™ flash drive solid state disk storage technology information, visit http://www.bitmicro.com or contact BiTMICRO at 47929 Fremont Boulevard, CA 94538 USA. Sales Telephone: +1 510-74E-DISK / +1 510-743-3475, Fax: +1 510-743-3155. E-mail: info@bitmicro.com.

About EDSA™ and LUNETA™

The Enhanced Datamover and Storage Accelerator (EDSA™) flash I/O controller is a proprietary ASIC that succeeds the highly successful disk controller chipset of BiTMICRO^®’s electronic disk technology. The EDSA™ flash I/O controller supports large block NAND flash as well as single, dual, quad-die flash devices, allowing BiTMICRO to hike E-Disk^® Altima™ solid state disk capacities to terabytes of pure flash memory.

EDSA™ goes hand in hand with the Logical Unifier of Extensive Transfer Arrays (LUNETA™) ASIC, BiTMICRO’s proprietary flash memory management interface controller that is designed to orchestrate massively parallel and multi-block I/O operations on large arrays of flash devices. LUNETA™ supports both NAND (SLC or MLC) and AND types of flash memory and is typically used in designs to complement the EDSA™ controller in applications that require scalability and management of larger amounts of flash devices.

About BiTMICRO Networks

BiTMICRO^® Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com) is the leading provider of high performance solid state disk and non-volatile semiconductor storage solutions. The Company’s flagship product, the E-Disk^® SSD, is offered with SATA, SCSI Narrow and Wide, IDE/ATA and Fibre Channel interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprints, and 19-inch rack mount configurations scalable up to several terabytes of pure solid state storage. With a growing workforce of over 250 employees around the globe, BiTMICRO maintains its commitment to invent, design and deliver advanced solid state storage solutions that drive business value.

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E-Disk^® and BiTMICRO^® are registered trademarks and trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. BiTMICRO Networks acknowledges the trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

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