Cadence Design Systems LLC

Cadence is the world's largest supplier of electron ic design technologies and engineering serv ices. Cadence products and serv ices are used to accelerate and manage the design of sem iconductors, computer systems, networking equipment, telecommun ications equipment, consumer electron ics, and other electron ics based products.

With approximately 5,000 employees and 2005 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has more than 60 offices and facilities around the world.

The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and trades on both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq under the symbol CDNS.

More information is available at www.cadence.com.

Cadence has a development center in Moscow with more than 100 engineers.