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Kentron Technologies® announces royalty free license strategy for both QBM™ and FEMMA™ technologies.

Interested companies will have access to gerbers, design guides and the tools that they will need for development.

Wilmington, MA (June 4, 2002) - Kentron Technologies, a leader in next generation memory architectures announced today that it is implementing a royalty free strategy towards the licensing of two of its patented technologies, Quad Band Memory (QBM) and Foldable Electronic Memory Module Assembly (FEMMA).

Kentron's goal is to work closely with the semiconductor industry and its standardization body, JEDEC, in the adoption of these patented technologies. These technologies offer a solution to companies in the industry looking to implement high speed, high density memory solutions. Interested companies will have access to gerbers, design guides and assembly tools for product development. Kentron is offering these patented technologies on a 'royalty free' license basis; this is a departure from the approach taken by other companies in the industry that have charged royalties for their non-DDR compatible, higher cost memory technologies.

QBM Technology: Using DDR I devices to produce DDR II Bandwidth today
The QBM technology is an evolutionary, high bandwidth memory technology that meets the bandwidth needs of the market place and extends the performance of existing DDR I devices. Using existing DDR devices, QBM delivers the bandwidth expected from future memory devices such as DDR II. The technology provides DDR II speeds, cost savings and a dramatic performance improvement over DDR333 and future DDR 400 and DDR II modules, as well as other non-DDR compatible, more expensive memory technologies.

FEMMA Technology : Price/performance leading, high-density memory platform
FEMMA technology provides a proven low cost and highly reliable memory platform to achieve high memory density utilizing dual PCBs connected by a flexible circuit component. The flexible circuit technology has established a track record with over twenty years in the military, automotive and computer industries. The memory industry faces density challenges with DDR II (FBGA devices) due to technical challenges and high costs inherent in the new ball grid array device stacking process. FEMMA provides a low cost, low profile solution for high density, non stacked module requirements. FEMMA is a scalable technology and can be used to build a wide array of products. FEMMA designs are available in a wide range of speeds (PC100, PC133 and DDR I) and densities from 512MB all the way through 2GB memory modules.

"Kentron's strategy of providing the QBM and FEMMA technologies to the industry under a royalty free license will accelerate industry adoption," said Bob Goodman, CEO of Kentron Technologies. "This simpler path to adoption will allow the system product OEMs to benefit much sooner from the bandwidth and density improvements of Kentron's technologies".

Kentron Technologies will provide companies, interested in the royalty free licensing of QBM and/or FEMMA technologies, with the necessary documentation needed to manufacture the product. Interested parties should contact Joe Capaldo (jcapaldo@kentrontech.com ) 155 West Street, Wilmington, MA 01887, Ph. (978) 988-9100, ext. 2136.

ABOUT KENTRON TECHNOLOGIES
Founded in 1996, Kentron Technologies specializes in the design, engineering and manufacturing of advanced memory products and platforms to meet the speed and density requirements of high performance systems. With patented memory solutions, Kentron is pioneering new technologies that will lay the foundation for future platforms and networks and solve the memory density and speed issues faced by the Internet server and router marketplace. These memory platforms achieve the highest "per socket" densities in the world without the premium costs that might be expected of such leading edge technology. Kentron manufactures its products in three locations in the United States and maintains a world-class engineering and R&D facility in Massachusetts. Kentron Technologies corporate headquarters is based at 155 West Street in Wilmington. MA. 
Attention Editors: for additional information about Kentron Technologies, Inc. please contact Andrea E. Pruna, Kentron Technologies, Inc., 155 West Street, Wilmington, MA, at (978) 988-9100, extension 4161, or at andrea@kentrontech.com . 
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