Samsung Renews Tessera License

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA - News) (the “Company”) announced today that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. exercised the renewal option in its Jan. 1, 2005 license agreement with Tessera, Inc. to extend the term of that license to May 17, 2017.

“We are delighted to have Samsung, a worldwide leader in memory technology, elect to renew its license agreement with Tessera, Inc.,” said Richard Chernicoff, president of the Intellectual Property and Micro-electronics Division of Tessera, Inc. “Samsung's intellectual property team is among the most sophisticated in the world, and we greatly value their decision to renew our license.”

“We are very pleased that Samsung elected to renew its Tessera, Inc. license agreement, extending the long-term commercial relationship between our two companies,” stated Robert A. Young, chief executive officer of Tessera Technologies, Inc. “We look forward to expanding our business relationships with them.”

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About Tessera Technologies, Inc.

Tessera Technologies, Inc, through its subsidiaries, develops, invests in, licenses and delivers innovative miniaturization technologies and products for wireless and computing products. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, California. More than 65% of the Company’s employees are dedicated technologists or inventors. The Company’s micro-electronics solutions enable smaller, higher-functionality devices through chip-scale and wafer-level packaging, silicon-level interconnect and 3-D packaging, as well as silent air cooling technology. The Company’s imaging and optics solutions provide cost-effective, high-quality camera functionality in consumer electronic products through technologies that include Extended Depth of Field (EDoF), zoom and MEMS-based auto-focus. The Company also offers custom micro-optics for semiconductor lithography, communications, medical, industrial and other applications. For information call 1.408.321.6000 or go to www.tessera.com.

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