CUPERTINO, Calif. - March 17, 2009 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD; "Spreadtrum"), one of China's leading wireless baseband chipset providers, selected the V93000 system for production testing of its CMMB* (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting) mobile digital television decoder/demodulator semiconductors.

"Being the leading demodulator IC provider in the CMMB market, which is expected to grow substantially in China over the next several years, we selected the V93000 for its high-accuracy analog-to-digital converter (ADC) test and fast integrated circuit quiescent current (IDDQ) measurement capabilities," said Brian Chen, vice president of operations, Spreadtrum. "The V93000 meets the accuracy and performance requirements of testing our highly-integrated high-quality CMMB demodulator and audio/video decoder designs."

"Spreadtrum is well-positioned to take advantage of China's fast-growing mobile TV market," said Pascal Ronde, vice president of sales, service and support, Verigy. "The flexibility and scalability of the V93000 will make it easy for Spreadtrum to add support for future design requirements. Verigy's large installed base of V93000s also provides the supply chain flexibility needed to handle market fluctuations."

About the Verigy V93000
The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SoCs, systems-in-package (SIPs) and high-speed memory devices. The V93000, with nearly 2,000 systems installed worldwide, meets the industry's demanding performance and cost challenges, whether for at-speed engineering characterization or high-volume production. The test system provides low cost-of-test with massive multi-site capabilities, with data rates up to 12.8 Gbps and supports a full range of digital, mixed-signal, RF and wireless applications.

About Spreadtrum
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD; "Spreadtrum") is a fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. Spreadtrum combines its semiconductor design expertise with its software development capabilities to deliver highly-integrated baseband processors with multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum offers terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly-integrated baseband processor solutions, as well as multimedia chips, RF chips, protocol software and software application platforms. Spreadtrum has developed its solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless products that are feature-rich and meet their cost and time-to-market requirements. For more information, please check www.spreadtrum.com/eng/.

About Verigy
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services advanced semiconductor test systems and solutions for the flash memory, high-speed memory and system-on-chip (SoC) markets. Verigy's scalable platforms are used by leading companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Advanced analysis tools accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes for Verigy's customers. Information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.

Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the growth of the CMMB market in China, the accuracy, performance, flexibility and scalability of the V93000, and Spreadtrum's positioning to take advantage of China's fast-growing mobile TV market. These statements are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual market trends and the actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, uncertainties regarding the development of CMMB, mobile TV market, and the V93000; unpredictable changes in technology and consumer demand for handsets; and changes in political, economic, legal and social conditions in China. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please consider the information contained in Spreadtrum's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC "), including the annual report on Form 20-F filed on June 30, 2008, especially the sections under "Risk Factors " and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, "and such other documents that Spreadtrum may file or furnish with the SEC from time to time, including on Form 6-K. Spreadtrum assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.

* CMMB is the mobile television and multimedia standard developed and specified in China by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.


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