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Mindspeed Completes $5.3 Million Sale of Intellectual Property
[October 07, 2010]

Mindspeed Completes $5.3 Million Sale of Intellectual Property


NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. --(Business Wire)--

Mindspeed Technologies (News - Alert), Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that it closed the sale of certain legacy patents for $5.3 million, which will be reported as revenue in the company's fiscal fourth quarter of 2010 ending on October 1, 2010. Specific terms of the sale are confidential.

Today's announced patent sale is in addition to the $10.0 million patent sale announced on July 26, 2010, of which $7.5 million will be reported as revenue in the company's fiscal fourth quarter of 2010. In total, $12.8 million in legacy patent sales will be reported as revenue in the company's fiscal fourth quarter of 2010.

"We are excited to further bolster our liquidity position with these additional legacy patent sales, which put the company in its strongest net cash position in over five years," said Bret Johnsen, Mindspeed's chief financial officer.

Mindspeed will conduct a conference call announcing its fiscal fourth quarter 2010 results on Monday, November 1, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

To listen to the conference call via telephone, call 800-593-9968 (domestic) or 210-795-2680 (international); password: Mindspeed. To listen via the Internet, please visit the Investors section of Mindspeed's web site at www.mindspeed.com. Replay of the conference call will be available via telephone for a period of 30 days beginning one hour after the conference call concludes by calling 888-566-0497 (domestic) or 402-998-0664 (international). Replay will also be available in the Investors section of Mindspeed's web site at www.mindspeed.com during such 30 day period.



About Mindspeed Technologies

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the wireline and wireless network infrastructure, which includes today's separate but interrelated and converging enterprise, broadband access, metropolitan and wide area networks. Our products are classified into three focused product families: communications convergence processing, high-performance analog and wide area networking communications. Our products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in a variety of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers, digital loop carrier equipment, IP private branch exchanges (PBXs), optical modules, broadcast video systems and wireless basestation equipment.


Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include statements regarding the company's expectations, goals or intentions, including but not limited to, statements regarding expected revenues from the sale of patents and the timing of such revenues and the strength of the company's liquidity and net cash positions. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the company and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those stated in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: fluctuations in our operating results and future operating losses; worldwide political and economic uncertainties and specific conditions in the markets we address; constraints in the supply of wafers and other product components from our third-party manufacturers; fluctuations in the price of our common stock; cash requirements and terms and availability of financing; loss of or diminished demand from one or more key customers or distributors; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; doing business internationally and our ability to successfully and cost effectively establish and manage operations in foreign jurisdictions; pricing pressures and other competitive factors; successful development and introduction of new products; lengthy sales cycles; order and shipment uncertainty; our ability to obtain design wins and develop revenues from them; the expense of and our ability to defend our intellectual property against infringement claims by others; product defects and bugs; business acquisitions and investments; and our ability to utilize our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes. Risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ from those set forth in any forward-looking statement are discussed in more detail under "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 2, 2010, as well as similar disclosures in the company's subsequent SEC (News - Alert) filings. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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