Artisan Components To Present At Sixth Annual Needham Growth Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2004--Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq: ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced that Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer and Joy Leo, vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer, will present at the Sixth Annual Needham Growth Conference on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. The conference will be held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City, New York.

About Artisan Components
Artisan Components, Inc. is a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP) components for the design and manufacture of complex system-on-a-chip integrated circuits. Artisan's products include embedded memory, standard cell, input/output, analog and mixed-signal components, which are designed to achieve the best combination of performance, density, power and yield for a given manufacturing process. Artisan has licensed its IP components to over 1,200 companies involved in integrated circuit design. Artisan is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. More information about Artisan Components, including free library access, can be found at access.arm.com.

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