January 9, 2006, San Jose, CA – Enea, the world leader in advanced device software, today announced that it has relocated its North American headquarters from Phoenix to Silicon Valley. The new office, located at 2635 North First Street in San Jose, CA, will provide marketing, sales, technical support and professional services.

"As an industry leading device software maker, Enea has many customers and partners in Silicon Valley,” said Virginia Walker, president of Enea’s North American operations. “As our global business rapidly expands, it only makes sense to relocate our North American headquarters to the capital of the high tech world."

Founded in 1968, Enea (Sweden: ENEAST) is a world leader in device software.  The company’s products are embedded in many of the world’s most familiar devices--from mobile phones to automobiles and medical technology. The company is the leading supplier of operating systems to the global telecommunications industry, with approximately 50% market share of the world’s new mobile phones and base stations. Enea’s software has been embedded in more than 100 million devices worldwide.

The company’s customers include technology leaders such as Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Sharp, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, Boeing, LG and Samsung.  To serve its global customer base, Enea provides the industry’s largest professional engineering and consulting corps, with more than 300 engineers located in offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. 

Its flagship product family, OSE™, introduced in 1984, has become the world’s most tested and trusted family of real-time operating systems.  The company’s device database, Polyhedra ™, is a small footprint, real-time database that brings the power of a desktop computer to the palm of a hand. Recently, the company achieved another industry milestone with the introduction of Element™, a breakthrough middleware solution that significantly accelerates software development for complex systems with multiple processors.

OSE, Polyhedra and Element are registered trademarks of Enea. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact:

North America:

Tom Hayes
Vice president of corporate marketing
Enea
(480) 753-9200
Email: tom.hayes@enea.com

Mark Shapiro
Davis-Marrin Communications
Phone: (858) 573-0736
Email: mshapiro@davismarrin.com