Dr. Seth Sanders joins Akros Silicon Board of Advisors

University of California, Berkeley Professor Brings Deep Expertise
in High Frequency Power Conversion Circuits and Components
to Akros Board of Technical Advisors

Folsom, CA – December 1, 2005 -- Akros Silicon Inc., a developer of highly integrated and innovative mixed signal and digital processing ICs for converged Ethernet networking and power appliances, today announced that Dr. Seth Sanders has joined the company’s Technical Advisory Board. Dr. Sanders served as Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics and is currently Professor at University of California, Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Services department where he teaches power management systems and IC design methodologies.

“I am very excited to see companies such as Akros Silicon take advantage of leading edge advancements in mixed signal design techniques to offer low cost, high volume and highly integrated system-level power management solutions for the networking and telecommunications market,” said Dr. Sanders. “I look forward to working with Akros Silicon and providing my guidance in developing truly exciting products for the industry.”

“Dr. Sanders is an industry expert who has been in the forefront of technology development and is viewed as a pioneer and leader in many areas of mixed signal power management technology development” said John Camagna, Akros Silicon Vice President of Engineering and Founder. “It is our privilege and honor to have Dr. Sanders join our Board of Advisors to further strengthen our ability to offer exciting, highly integrated mixed signal solutions for the emerging Power over Ethernet market segment.”

About Dr. Seth Sanders

Seth R. Sanders received the S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and physics and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1981, 1985, and 1989, respectively. He was a Design Engineer at the Honeywell Test Instruments Division, Denver, CO. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is presently Professor. His research interests are in high frequency power conversion circuits and components, in design and control of electric machine systems, and in nonlinear circuit and system theory as related to the power electronics field. He is presently actively supervising research projects in the areas of flywheel energy storage, novel electric machine design, renewable energy, and digital pulse-width modulation strategies and associated IC designs for power conversion applications.

Dr. Sanders received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993 and Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics, and as a Member-At-Large of the IEEE PELS Adcom.

About Akros Silicon Bringing Intelligence to the Network Edge

Akros Silicon Inc., (“Akros” is Greek word for “edge”), a developer of highly integrated and innovative mixed signal and digital processing ICs for converged Ethernet networking and power applications, enables intelligence at the edge of the network in the fast growing Internet appliance arena.

A fabless semiconductor company located in Folsom, California, Akros Silicon Inc. focuses on developing highly disruptive and innovative integrated circuits using advanced mixed analog and digital signal processing, digital signal processing and algorithmic techniques.

Akros’ highly differentiated and IP-protected integration, using standard high volume CMOS process technology, opens a huge opportunity for new silicon solutions for use in the fast growing Internet and network appliance marketplace. For more information, please visit www.AkrosSilicon.com