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Epigram and Texas Instruments Integrate High-Speed Home Networking and ADSL Access

Epigram High Speed Home Networking Integrated into Leading Family of TI Digital Signal Processors

SUNNYVALE, CA and DALLAS (Nov. 12, 1998) -- Epigram and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced a multi-faceted relationship to apply Epigram's 10 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) home networking capabilities to TI's world-leading digital signal processors (DSP). The resulting products will provide the end user with high-speed network access, including Internet-based applications, through existing home telephone lines via personal computers, peripherals and consumer electronics devices. This relationship will also yield new networking solutions with Epigram's 10 Mbps home Ethernet networking technology combined with TI's existing products and expertise in broadband access systems for an always-on network connection in the home. This robust connection will dramatically accelerate the way millions of small businesses and consumers communicate.

Using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology as a bandwidth pipeline to the home, Epigram and TI believe that the Internet experience can be significantly enhanced if the consumer is able to view digital information just as they view the television today. Quality viewing would be extended to multiple devices and networked applications distributed throughout the home, enabling the student to attending home-based school sessions, the professional to telecommute, and the new mother to view her sleeping child.

Today's partnership includes the integration of Epigram into TI's industry leading DSP-based ADSL solutions. These solutions will be ready to network the more than 18 million multiple PC households (Source: DataQuest), offering consumers high-speed home networking applications including shared Internet access, MPEG video distribution and concurrent phone services using the existing phoneline. TI DSP technology will also find a home in millions of consumer electronics devices easily connecting them to a 10 Mbps Ethernet network.

To connect with rising consumer networking interest, Texas Instruments and Eprigram join the more than 20 recently announced members of Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) to promote high-speed home networking. This partnership will produce products that are fully interoperable and backward compatible to the 1 Mbps HomePNA 1.0 specification.

Connecting Millions of Copper Miles

"With the addition of Epigram innovation, TI's networking products now provide tailored end-to-end solutions for any Internet Point of Presence," said Jeremy Duke, director of networking research at Cahners-InStat. "The addition of 10 Mbps LAN technology in TI DSPs will provide."

In both small businesses and households there is an aggregate of more than 40 million unconnected miles of phoneline, a copper media previously unable to bear the demands of simultaneous 10 Mbps Ethernet, voice and ADSL. Epigram's patent-pending technology delivers 10 Mbps Ethernet to a near infinite number of networked applications with no new wiring. TI ADSL solutions, with embedded home networking from Epigram, will save hundreds of dollars of network installation costs in any household or business.

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