MontaVista and TI Target Consumer Electronics

MontaVista Software and Texas Instruments to Provide Embedded Linux Platform
for TI OMAP Processors

Partnership Targets Wireless Handsets and Broad Multimedia-Enhanced
Applications

DALLAS and SUNNYVALE, Calif. ­ December 10, 2002 ­ Texas Instruments (NYSE:
TXN) and MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded
revolution, announced today that they will work together to provide an
embedded Linux platform for OMAP application processors to target 2.5G and
3G handsets and other applications. With the industry-leading MontaVista
Linux® embedded operating system and cross-development platform, embedded
application developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will be
able to quickly create OMAP processor-based, multimedia-enhanced
applications for advanced wireless devices, telematics, biometrics, enhanced
gaming and specialized personal digital assistants (PDAs).

³Because of its flexibility and ease of use, Linux is becoming essential for
many embedded applications,² said David Potts, worldwide director of
applications for TI¹s OMAP platform. ³Working with MontaVista Software and
Texas Instruments lets software developers leverage MontaVista Linux with
its full-featured, open and rich development environment to build upon the
high performance and power-efficiency of TI¹s OMAP processors.²

MontaVista Linux will support development for many of Texas Instrument¹s OEM
customers who are building embedded OMAP-based applications and for embedded
Linux application developers using TI¹s Innovator Development Kit for the
OMAP platform. TI and MontaVista have demonstrated this partnership in
October at the Convergence Automotive Show in Detroit and in November during
a technical presentation titled ³Linux and the OMAP Platform for Wireless
Consumer Electronics Devices² at Embedded Technology in Yokohama, Japan.

³MontaVista Software proudly adds OMAP processors to the industry-leading
array of embedded CPUs that we support,² said Scott Hedrick, senior product
marketing manager, consumer electronics, MontaVista Software. ³MontaVista
Linux together with TI OMAP processors provides a powerful combination for
advanced networked embedded devices and applications, such as smart phones,
automotive telematics, and mobile entertainment devices.²

As part of its collaboration with TI, MontaVista Software will provide a
complete Linux-based development platform to enable innovation and
development by third party embedded application developers. TI¹s OMAP family
of application processors delivers high-performance processing coupled with
low power consumption. OMAP processors feature an open, comprehensive
software infrastructure supporting a variety of popular operating systems,
including Linux, and development environments such as Java technology.
Software developers who want to optimize their applications to take
advantage of the digital signal processor (DSP) in the dual-core OMAP1510
and OMAP5910 devices can easily do so through familiar and easy-to-use tools
and application programming interfaces (APIs). Development tools such as the
Innovator Development Kit for the OMAP platform, training and technical
documentation are available at www.omap.com.

Availability

MontaVista Linux for the OMAP platform will be available direct from
MontaVista and MontaVista distribution channels worldwide in December 2002.
MontaVista Linux is purchased as a product subscription, providing the
MontaVista Linux kernel, software updates, utilities, development tools,
access to the MontaVista Zone and full technical support. Also available
from MontaVista Software are expanded technology add-on products, including
embedded Java, High-Availability technology, and powerful graphical
toolkits.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal
processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the
Internet age. In addition to Semiconductor, the company¹s businesses also
include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is
headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing or sales operations in
more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide
Web at www.ti.com.

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software for
intelligent connected devices and their associated infrastructure, for
applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer
electronics. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing
GNU/Linux based open-source systems software solutions. Founded in 1999 by
real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software's
principal products include MontaVista Linux® Professional Edition and
MontaVista Linux® Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional Edition comprises
a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development
environments, and a versatile set of tools for the OMAP, x86/IA-32, PowerPC,
StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor
architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a next-generation high
availability product that is the first commercial off-the-shelf Linux (COTS)
platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista
Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing
specific customer needs, such as Java development and runtime, powerful
graphics capabilities and more.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors
such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht +
Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic, Sony and Yamaha Corporation.  For more
information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark
of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks,
registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

Contacts:

Texas Instruments

Jason Vorel
Market Communications Program Manager
Texas Instruments
Phone (214) 480-6584
E-mail: jmvorel@ti.com

Penni Sanchez
Account Supervisor
Golin/Harris International
972-308-9120
psanchez@golinharris.com

MontaVista Software

Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com

Patricia Colby
PR Strategy and Business Development
Pacifico Inc.
Phone (408) 293-8600 ext. 340
E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com