Semiconductor Advisory Panel

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9 August 2023

EnSilica plc

("EnSilica", the "Company" or the "Group")

Semiconductor Advisory Panel

EnSilica, a leading chip maker of mixed signal ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), is delighted to announce that Janet Collyer, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of EnSilica, has been selected to join the Semiconductor Advisory Panel, a government-led initiative to help steer the future of the UK semiconductor sector.

Janet Collyer, alongside other experts in the semiconductor industry, will engage with the Technology Minister, Paul Scully, to deliver across three key goals: growing the domestic semiconductor sector, mitigating the risk of supply chain disruptions, and protecting national security.

The panel will be made up of ten experts from across the semiconductor sector, with representatives from business and technology, alongside those working in venture capital, skills and training, and research.

Future meetings will focus on how to nurture skills, improve access to finance, and develop stronger international collaboration, and set out how industry can work directly with government to achieve these goals.

Ian Lankshear, Chief Executive Officer of EnSilica plc, commented:

"We are immensely proud that Janet has been selected to join such a prestigious and important panel, at a time when our domestic semiconductor policy, alongside securing the supply of chips and protecting national security, has never been more important."

Janet Collyer, Senior Independent Non-executive Director of EnSilica added:

"I am thrilled to join the UK Semiconductor Advisory Panel. I started work as a graduate semiconductor design engineer, progressing to various leadership roles across the international semiconductor sector.

"Through the panel, I hope to support initiatives aimed at increasing the number of women choosing to pursue a career in UK semiconductors at all levels, including C-suite, and to support connecting UK-based design to resilient mass production manufacturing networks."

Co-chaired by Technology Minister Paul Scully and the former Chief Executive of Dialog Semiconductor, Dr Jalal Bagherli, the Semiconductor Advisory Panel includes:

·    Amelia Armour - Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners

·    Janet Collyer - Senior Independent NED at EnSilica, Independent NED at the Aerospace Technology Institute, Chair of the Board at Quantum Dice and at Machine Discovery

·    Prof. John Goodenough - Chair in Microelectronic Systems, University of Sheffield

·    Richard Grisenthwaite - Executive VP & Chief Architect, Arm

·    Rae Hyndman - Managing Director, Clas-SiC Wafer Fab

·    Americo Lemos - CEO, IQE

·    Dr Andy Sellars - Strategic Development Director, Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult

·    Dr Eben Upton - CEO, Raspberry Pi

·    Scott White - Executive Director, Pragmatic

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About EnSilica

EnSilica is a leading fabless design house focused on custom ASIC design and supply for OEMs and system houses, as well as IC design services for companies with their own design teams. The company has world-class expertise in supplying custom RF, mmWave, mixed signal and digital ICs to its international customers in the automotive, industrial, healthcare and communications markets. The company also offers a broad portfolio of core IP covering cryptography, radar and communications systems. EnSilica has a track record in delivering high quality solutions to demanding industry standards. The company is headquartered near Oxford, UK and has design centres across the UK and in India and Brazil.

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