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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Parthus Technologies plc., (Nasdaq: PRTH,LSE: PRH), a leading provider of platform-level intellectual property targeting the mobile Internet, will demonstrate its most advanced industry leading Bluetooth IP solution – BlueStream – along with numerous examples of customer certified silicon at the Bluetooth Congress in Amsterdam this week (11-14 June, 2002).Parthus’ pioneering BlueStream™ platform is widely acknowledged to deliver the highest levels of Bluetooth wireless functionality and performance to electronic device developers and manufacturers, offering reduced time to certification, rapid time to market and exceptionally low cost of deployment across a broad range of consumer and business applications. As a market ready solution, the BlueStream™ platform is fully compliant with all mandatory and optional features required in Bluetooth specification version 1.1 and surpasses many industry norms in terms of the immensely rich feature set and complete functionality which the platform provides. In addition, the availability of an extensive range of profiles with Parthus BlueStream serves to further accelerate a products time to market offering our customers optimum product flexibility and increased market share.“The deployment of our BlueStream™ Platform onto a single CD proves the maturity of the solution” said Martin Farnan, BlueStream™ Platform Director, Wireless Business Unit for Parthus Technologies. “Parthus already has a notable track record within the Bluetooth industry, and we are taking this opportunity to further re-inforce our position as the industry’s number one supplier.”In a separate release:Parthus Technologies plc. (Nasdaq: PRTH, LSE: PRH), a leading provider of platform-level intellectual property targeting the mobile Internet, is unveiling its ground breaking new In8Stream™ 802.11 IP platform at the Planet 802.11 conference in Philadelphia. Based upon PacketGenie™ technology, from Telematix - a leading developer of multi-protocol wireless networking technology. In8Stream™ offers advanced multi-mode wireless LAN (WLAN) capabilities across the entire range of IEEE 802.11 WLAN standards b, a, g and emerging standards including e, i and h through one flexible and powerful architecture.Parthus is leveraging from its position as number one supplier in the Bluetooth IP licensing market (Dataquest) to target leadership in licensing 802.11 IP solutions. This will be Parthus’ first public exhibition of the In8Stream™ demonstration, which runs a suite of applications requiring high-speed wireless connectivity."The world of wireless local area networking for the home, office and various public hotspot environments (such as airports, malls, coffee-shops), as targeted by Parthus' 802.11 technology, is one of the fastest growing segments of the communications industry," said Allen Nogee, Senior Analyst of Wireless Technology with Cahners-in-Stat. “We estimate that the number of 802.11 chipsets will grow rapidly from the 15 million to be shipped this year, to over 50 million shipping annually by 2005."Parthus Technologies PLC