30 October 2003

Artisan To Present At The AeA Classic Financial Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2003--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 AeA Classic Financial Conference on November 3 and 4, 2003 at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California. AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association and annually holds this premier financial conference for public technology companies.

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 http://access.arm.com

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