Global Sources - Press Release

HONG KONG, February 17, 2011 – Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) announces today that top international semiconductor companies such as ADI, Freescale, Intel, NXP and STMicroelectronics are scheduled to exhibit and speak at the 16th International IC-China Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China, http://www.english.IIC-China.com). The three-day event, which also features keynotes by leading technology figures and six highly-anticipated live product teardowns, is set to take place in Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta – China's major electronics design and manufacturing hub – on February 24-26 at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center.

Experienced analysts from Global Sources are scheduled to perform two live product teardowns on each day. The first teardown aims to give engineers a chip-by-chip, technology-by-technology analysis of two international and local branded Smartphones. Another session is scheduled to provide an in-depth look inside two popular tablet PCs.

Conferences focus on what's hot in China

According to a report from Coda Research Consultancy, China's Smartphone market is expected to experience the largest growth worldwide, quadrupling to reach a compound annual growth rate of 29 percent by end of 2015, with sales predicted at 97.6 million units that year. IIC-China's rich technical content includes a series of conferences on Smartphone design, as well as other hot technologies in China's electronics industry, including embedded, analog and power technologies.

Top-notch speakers giving keynotes at these conferences include:

Smartphone – Yan Chenwei, Vice President, Qualcomm – world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies; Song Chongwen, Manager, FTA Division, Telecommunication Metrology Center of MIIT
Embedded Systems - Professor He Limin, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, widely known as "Father of Embedded System in China"; Director, Embedded System Association; Standing Committee Member, Embedded System Expert Committee of China Computer Federation
Power – Wu Wei, Chief Engineer, Shenzhen Chuangwei-RGB Electronics Co. Ltd; Jane Hsu, Director of Taiwan Market Research, IMS Research
Analog – Jae Inh Song,Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dongbu HiTek, world leader in specialty foundry

Experts from technology companies including Fairchild, Leadcore, Micron, NXP, Parasoft, STMicroelectronics and TriQuint Semiconductor are also scheduled to speak at the conferences.

Design engineers and technical managers can also have the opportunity to attend over 30 technical application courses (TAC) and TechShare sessions, which are scheduled to showcase the latest IC solutions from vendors such as ADI, Grace Semi, IDT, Silicon Labs and Skyworks. In addition, Intel is planning to collocate its full-day technical road show focusing on embedded solutions with IIC-China.

"As China continues to grow as the world's manufacturing base of electronics products as well as a key consumer, the design capability of its manufacturers plays an increasingly important role in maintaining their competitiveness in the domestic and global markets," said Brandon Smith, President of Global Sources' joint venture eMedia Asia Limited. "For instance, Huawei, China's top electronics company, filed 6,770 new patents in 2009. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Huawei ranked second in terms of patents applications under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty."

"IIC-China has been bringing the world's latest IC products and enabling technologies to the doorstep of China's design engineers. I believe this face-to-face interaction goes a long way in inspiring innovative design and new ideas in China," Smith continued.

Top IC and component vendors to showcase latest products

The exhibition is set to feature close to 550 booths with over 230 exhibitors. The world's leading semiconductor companies, including ADI, Atmel, Freescale, Fujitsu, Intel, Intersil, Maxim, Micron, NXP, On-Bright, On Semiconductor, ROHM, Silicon Labs, STMicroelectronics and Vishay, are scheduled to showcase their latest solutions and products to China's engineering community. Exhibiting alongside them are key distributors including Advanced MP Technology, Eluomeng, Richardson Electronics and RS Components, as well as top local IC companies and design houses such as BYD Microelectronics, Beijing Nufront, Go2Silicon and Sino IC.

Engineers can also see the latest semiconductor devices and solutions from Taiwan and Korea vendors at the regional pavilions.

Leading passive-component suppliers such as EYANG Technology Development, Mornsun and Shenzhen Sunlord Electronics are also set to showcase their products at the Components Zone.

Attendance at IIC-China is free for industry professionals. Interested parties can register for IIC-China in Shenzhen at http://www.english.IIC-China.com.

China ACE Awards honor innovation

During IIC-China, EE Times-China – leading electronics design title for mainland engineers published by eMedia Asia – plans to announce the winners of the highly-anticipated China ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards 2011. The awards, which seek to honor technologies and people that facilitate innovative electronics design in China, include seven categories of product awards and six company/people categories.

For the finalist list and other information on China ACE Awards 2011, please visit http://www.eet-china.com/ace.

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