CMP Technology Acquires Semiconductor Insights, Premier Provider of Technical and Intellectual Property Information to the Global Semiconductor industry - Press Release

Strategic Database Tool Strengthens CMP's Electronics Portfolio

This acquisition is further confirmation that CMP is charting a new course in providing engineers, technologists, business managers, and IP professionals the critical information they need to succeed and to provide our customers with the means to communicate with these creators

of technology.…

Paul Miller,
President of CMP's
Technology Innovators Group

MANHASSET, NY and Ottawa, Canada - July 27, 2007 -- CMP Technology, a targeted media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry, today announced that it has acquired Semiconductor Insights (http://www.semiconductor.com), the premier provider of technical and intellectual property (IP) information to the global semiconductor industry. The acquisition of Semiconductor Insights strengthens CMP's Electronics portfolio of services by providing customers the ability to identify, optimize and protect their technology assets through access to patent analyses and a vast library of detailed technical analyses of Integrated Circuits and electronic systems and technical market research.

An eighteen-year old Canadian company with offices around the world, Semiconductor Insights has a blue-chip customer list. Semiconductor Insights performs in-depth technical investigation of integrated circuits and electronic systems to analyze their design, technological composition, component sourcing, build cost, manufacturing process and intellectual property content. The company's expertise spans communications, networking, wireless, electronics, smart card and semiconductor technologies, with its primary focus being on high volume devices, particularly consumer electronics.

Semiconductor Insights' IPinsights focuses on intellectual property services, while its TECHinsights helps companies to maximize their competitive advantage, providing detailed product and technology analysis, market trends and technical solutions. In addition, Semi Insights has a proprietary database of nearly 5,000 analytic reports based on primary data from 16,000 component and Integrated Circuits and adds new information monthly.

CMP and Semiconductor Insights have had a strong ongoing relationship for four years. Semiconductor Insights has been a significant provider of editorial material for the popular product "teardown" articles in EE Times and eetimes.com, as well as providing technical content for TechOnline, CMP's sites for technical training and deep product information.

The Semiconductor Insights executive team will be responsible for integrating assets into the Electronics Group's portfolio of face-to-face, online and print initiatives. The team will report to Paul Miller, President of CMP's Technology Innovators Group, and be based in Ottawa, Canada.

"The addition of Semiconductor Insights to our portfolio is a significant event for us. As we seek to partner with our customers further and further up the product development process, it is essential that we are able to give them insight into the latest design, process, and technology innovations to help ensure they can bring the right product to market, at the right time. Semiconductor Insights is just that resource. In addition, Semi Insights has tools and information to help technology companies evaluate, develop, and monetize their IP," Miller said. "This acquisition is further confirmation that CMP is charting a new course in providing engineers, technologists, business managers, and IP professionals the critical information they need to succeed and to provide our customers with the means to communicate with these creators of technology."

"I am very pleased about today's announcement," said Marg Smeaton, Semiconductor Insights board member and wife of the late Dr. Doug Smeaton, who was president and CEO from 1992 — 2007. "Doug was very passionate about his company and the semiconductor marketplace. He was confident that CMP is the right partner to take Semiconductor Insights to the next level and continue to build the company according to the strategic plans Doug had envisioned."

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About Semiconductor Insights — A Division of UBM
Semiconductor Insights (SI) (www.semiconductor.com) is the leading technical advisor to the world’s microelectronics community. SI supports its clients through the technical investigation of patents, integrated circuits and electronic systems. Its TECHinsights division helps technology companies benchmark competing devices, improve time to market and solve technical problems while its IPinsights division helps technology companies and legal professionals evaluate, develop and monetize their intellectual property. Typical clients are major electronics and semiconductor corporations in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and North America and the law firms that represent them. SI is a division of UBM (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com).

About the CMP Technology Electronics Group
The CMP Technology Electronics Group includes the premier technology and business media brands serving the information needs of the creators of technology worldwide. Offering a full suite of products and services to reach electronics technology professionals throughout the world, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers the most targeted audience and actionable information to audiences in the electronics technology community. Each month, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers more than 1 million copies of its print publications, including EE Times, to subscribers in 23 countries and online visitors from 100 countries view more than 8 million pages on its Web sites including EE Times Online and TechOnline. More than 40,000 decision makers from 48 countries attend its events such as Embedded Systems Conferences each year in North America, China and Taiwan.

About CMP Technology
CMP Technology is a marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.