May 24, 2012 – CEVA (NASDAQ:CEVA), a leading licensing company for Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) platform solutions, DSP cores for mobile handsets, and the portable and consumer electronics markets, announced today that it was named the World's Leading DSP IP Company of 2011 by market research firm Linley Group.

According to the Linley Group's recent report, 'CPU Core and Processor IP Guide (1)', CEVA products accounted for 90% of the market share.

J. Scott Gardner, an analyst at Linley Group and co-author of the 'CPU Core and Processor IP Guide,' stated, "CEVA continues to play the role of the most successful DSP IP provider. CEVA's licensed chip shipments in 2011 exceeded 1 billion."

He continued, “CEVA has an impressive customer base for its DSP portfolio, particularly in telecommunications and multimedia,” adding, “Furthermore, with the ongoing 4G transition, high-performance programmable DSPs are required to efficiently handle complex multi-mode baseband processing. CEVA is seizing this trend as an opportunity to position itself well in the market.”

"We are pleased that CEVA has been named a world-leading DSP IP company by the Linley Group," said Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA. "Our DSP technology for high-volume mobile and digital home applications, which is unrivaled by other technologies, is the reason why the world's best semiconductor companies and OEMs have no choice but to select CEVA, and it is a key factor in CEVA's success."

CEVA's DSP cores support world-leading semiconductor products used in a wide range of applications, including cellular baseband, imaging, vision, audio, voice, and voice-over IP.

CEVA's latest communications DSP architecture framework, the CEVA-XC4000, which meets all state-of-the-art wireless standards including LTE Advanced, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, and DTV demodulation, sets a new milestone in power efficiency and utilizes an innovative instruction set for highly complex software-based baseband processing.

Furthermore, CEVA’s new TeakLite-4 DSP architecture framework for advanced audio and voice processing showcases innovative smart power management technology and supports customer-specific scalability, realizing ideal technology for highly flexible architectures and area- and power-sensitive designs.

The respective analyses of the CEVA-XC4000 and CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP architecture frameworks were recently published in the Linley Group's Microprocessor Report (2), (3). These reports are available at http://www.ceva-dsp.com/mpr .

1) Linley Group “CPU Core and Processor IP Guide” – by Kevin Krewell and J. Scott Gardner, April 2012
2) Linley Group “Microprocessor Report – CEVA-TeakLite-4 Roadmap Light” April 2012
3) Linley Group “Microprocessor Report – CEVA DSP Six Pack Explanation” March 2012