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Y-E Data to Ship Wireless Hub based on Wisair UWB Technology

First UWB Product Shipments in Japan slated for Q4 2006

CAMPBELL, Calif., October 11, 2006 – Y-E Data Ltd., part of the Yaskawa Electric Group (est. 1915), and Wisair, a leading provider of Ultra Wideband (UWB) chipset solutions, today announced that Y-E Data is bringing to market a new wireless hub featuring Wisair’s UWB technology. The wireless hub is scheduled for sampling in October with volume shipment to customers slated for November. The companies are collaborating to introduce products based on Certified Wireless USB.

Y-E Data’s four-port wireless hub is designed to seamlessly replace any wireline USB connection with a wireless connection. USB devices such as printers, scanners, remote hard disks, and digital cameras can plug into the UWB hub, which can be placed anywhere in the room. Data is transmitted wirelessly from the hub to a PC or notebook via a dongle that is plugged into the PC’s USB port.

To develop the wireless hub, Y-E Data leveraged Wisair’s UWB reference design. “The maturity of Wisair UWB technology has facilitated our implementation and will allow us to be very early in the Japanese market with a robust end-user product,” said Mr. M. Nishino, general manager, Multimedia Product Division at Y-E Data. The approval of UWB in Japan was announced in August by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).

“We are pleased to cooperate with Y-E Data, as it is poised to capture the Japanese market with the new UWB regulation now in place,” said David Yaish, CEO at Wisair. “We look forward to seeing Y-E Data’s first UWB hubs come to market and toward working with the company on its next line of UWB-enabled product offerings.”

About Y-E Data
Y-E Data, Inc. develops and manufactures the computer peripherals that form the basis for today's and tomorrow's information-oriented society. Since its founding in 1973 as a member of the Yaskawa Electric group, Y-E Data designed a “spark of ingenuity” into every product it delivered. The tradition that began with the first Japanese-produced floppy disk drive (FDD) in 1974 is alive and well at Y-E Data today. For more information, see http://www.yedata.com.

About Wisair
Wisair is a leading provider of WiMedia Ultra Wideband (UWB) chipset solutions for consumer electronics, PC peripherals, and mobile devices. Leveraging the management teams’ decades of wireless communications product development expertise, Wisair is the first company to deliver fully-functional WiMedia-based UWB chipsets and small form-factor reference designs. Today, the fabless semiconductor company continues to focus on delivering low-cost, low-power, and high bit-rate wireless connectivity solutions. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.wisair.com.