Artisan Components To Present At B. Riley & Co. Fifth Annual Investor Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq:ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced that Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer, will present at the B. Riley & Co. Fifth Annual Investor Conference on Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. The Conference will be held at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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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