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Larry Larder
InterNiche Technologies, Inc.
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InterNiche Technologies Announces NicheLite License Agreement with NXP Semiconductors

NXP will make NicheLite for LPC� available to all NXP LPC customers

SAN JOSE, CA � September 28, 2006 -- InterNiche Technologies today announced a licensing agreement with NXP Semiconductors under which NXP will provide a version of InterNiche's NicheLite� TCP/IP stack to NXP's LPC customers at no cost. Under the agreement NXP's LPC customers have unlimited rights to manufacture products using NicheLite TCP/IP for LPC� microprocessors and InterNiche will offer optional technical support and add on modules for the basic NicheLite for LPC stack. InterNiche's optional protocol modules have been developed from the ground up to address the needs of low cost embedded systems. The result is a modular solution that is functionally comprehensive, requiring minimal system and memory requirements, and is tuned for both portability and performance.

Optional Modules:

NicheStack SNMP� (v1, v2c or v3) is a suite of fully compliant agent implementations enabling industry standard device monitoring with SNMP management workstations. The complete SDK includes a MIB Compiler tool.
NicheStack HTTPServer� is an innovative robust embedded web server that has been designed specifically to optimize size and performance as well as support for dynamic data displays and important security features.
Protocol Options: InterNiche also offers a variety of optional protocols support solutions for specific applications, including Point to Point Protocol (PPP), PPPoE, Telnet, FTP and email applications.

"InterNiche is pleased to have been selected by NXP Semiconductors to provide its LPC customers with a full featured, small footprint stack" said Larry Larder, President of InterNiche. "We have a long relationship with NXP and appreciate the confidence they have shown in our company by entering into this licensing agreement. Because NXP is offering an integrated TCP/IP stack, LPC developers can immediately take advantage of network capabilities not available on many small processors without significant effort. Developers can also save time and expense because a full range of add on modules to extend the basic functionally of their NicheLite for LPC."

"Microcontroller systems need reliable and compact communication stacks to allow rapid and cost-effective product development" said Ata Khan, Director of Product Innovation for Microcontrollers at NXP Semiconductors. "InterNiche's protocol stacks are well known and highly regarded in the industry and we look forward to providing our customers with the ability to use the NicheLite protocol stack with no acquisition cost when they choose our LPC Microcontroller products."

About InterNiche

InterNiche Technologies has been developing and licensing networking management and configuration software for embedded systems since 1989. Hundreds of thousands of products depend on InterNiche software as part of their core functionality. Customers include companies such as 3COM, Ericsson, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Nortel Networks, NXP, Polycom, Raytheon, Samsung, Siemens, and many more. For more information please contact sales-europe@iniche.com or visit InterNiche on the web at http://www.iniche.com/lpclite.php.

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