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RMI Corporation and Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture Announce Strategic Partnership and Use of RMI Multi-core Multi-threaded Processors in Security Appliances

RMI CEO Joins Huawei-Symantec Leaders and Security Industry Expert to Announce Partnership and JV’s First High-Performance Unified Security Gateway Product

Cupertino, CA, and Beijing, China July 10, 2008 — RMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processor Solutions for Networking, Communications and Media Rich Applications, and Huawei-Symantec, a joint venture formed to develop leading-edge security and storage appliances, today announced a Strategic Partnership to utilize RMI’s multi-core multi-threaded processors for the J.V.’s storage and security appliances, including the USG9000 and the USG6000. Huawei-Symantec also announced the introduction of the Joint Venture’s first unified security gateway device
providing industry leading performance.

The announcement was made earlier today at a press conference in Beijing, China highlighting the significance of the Joint Venture and its successful development activities and to showcase the world-class R&D efforts between Huawei-Symantec and RMI to deliver the unified security gateway device. Attending the press conference were Mr. Su Li-Qing, vice president R&D, Huawei-Symantec, Mr. Behrooz Abdi, president and CEO of RMI Corporation and Dr. Sunny Siu, president, RMI Asia, and Dr. Binxing Fang, a CAE (Chinese Academy of Technology/Engineering) Fellow.

“Huawei-Symantec was formed to bring two powerful forces in networking and security together to deliver world-class products and today’s announcement highlights that success,” said Mr. Su Li-Qing, president of Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture. “Part of that success includes the support from RMI and the advanced technical capabilities that have allowed us to reach this milestone. We are grateful for this strategic partnership with RMI.”

The Huawei-Symantec joint venture was announced in May 2007 between Huawei Technologies, a leader in next-generation telecommunications network solutions, and Symantec, a global leader in infrastructure software to develop and distribute worldleading security and storage appliances to global telecommunications carriers and enterprises. The joint venture is intended to help carriers and enterprises effectively address the constant need for innovation and increased security risks by offering security and storage appliances that are easy to implement and maximize value to customers. Those appliances include the USG9000 and the USG6000 series of high performance security gateways.

“RMI has made strong commitments to China early on, building up a world-class business and technical organization with deep enterprise and infrastructure expertise and we have worked closely with Huawei-Symantec to bring high quality, leading edge products to market in the shortest amount of time”, said Behrooz Abdi, president and CEO, RMI. “RMI applauds Huawei-Symantec on its success and we are proud to be recognized as its strategic partner. We are committed to supporting Huawei-Symantec as it moves towards the next growth phase.”

About RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company and a leading provider of high performance System-on-a-Chip Processor Solutions for Communication and Media applications. RMI develops highly integrated, feature-rich processors with advanced 32 and 64-bit architectures addressing a wide variety of integrated next generation applications for the Infrastructure, Enterprise and Consumer markets. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be
found on the company’s website at http://www.RMICorp.com.

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