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RMI Corporation Strengthens Management Team to Extend Worldwide Market Reach of
Multi-core Multi-threaded Processors

Semiconductor Veteran Steve Longoria Named Vice President of Worldwide Sales Bolstering RMI’s Global Sales and Marketing Strategy

Cupertino, CA, August 12, 2008 - RMI Corporation, a leading supplier of Processor Solutions for networking, communications and media rich applications, announced the addition of Steve Longoria as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, extending the market reach of its industry leading multi-core multi-threaded processors. Mr. Longoria joins
RMI from IBM Microelectronics Inc., where he held the position of vice president, semiconductor solutions. He will report to Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive officer, RMI. RMI also announced that Paula Ewanich has joined the company as vice president, human resources. Ms. Ewanich, who previously was vice president human resources at Genesis Microchip, will report to Mr. Abdi as well.

“RMI Corporation has emerged from a fabless semiconductor startup into a growing company with compelling products, Tier-1 customers, and a global presence. We are fortunate to attract and recruit top executives such as Steve and Paula to RMI as we mature into the next phase of a world class semiconductor company,” said Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive officer.

Mr. Longoria, a semiconductor veteran, brings almost 20 years of experience and success in sales, engineering and management roles targeting customers in the networking, security, storage and consumer markets. Prior to joining RMI, Mr. Longoria held the role of vice president of semiconductor solutions where he was responsible for IBM’s external semiconductor business targeted at the infrastructure and consumer markets. Prior to that role, Mr. Longoria served IBM as vice president, semiconductor platforms, director of corporate strategy and other development, strategy and marketing
roles.

“I am thrilled to be joining RMI at an exciting time for the company and look forward to building an organization that takes advantage of the multi-core multi-threaded processor leadership that RMI maintains, as well as expanding the global success of the RMI Alchemy family of media processors,” said Steve Longoria, vice president of worldwide sales, RMI.

RMI has also named Paula Ewanich as vice president, human resources. Prior to her role as vice president, human resources at Genesis Microchip, Ms. Ewanich held director of human resources positions at Cortina Systems, Pixim, Inc., and MediaQ, Inc. (acquired by NVIDIA), and as product marketing engineer at Toshiba America.

RMI® products push the edge of processor technology in performance and integration, and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to address the infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer markets. The company's XLR®, XLS™ and RMI Alchemy® processor families are based on innovative MIPS®-compatible architectures creating advanced, highly-integrated designs built on leading-edge silicon process technologies.

About RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC™) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, France, India, Korea,
Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company's website at http://www.RMICorp.com.

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