Hybricon Corporation and ACT/Technico Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Integrated, Embedded Computing Solutions

February 2005, Ayer, MA – Hybricon Corporation and ACT/Technico announced a strategic partnership to provide integrated system solutions to the telecommunications, military, medical imaging, and semiconductor equipment manufacturing industries. Hybricon’s wide range of VME and CompactPCI enclosure systems provide impressive innovations in ruggedness, cooling and ease of application. Specializing in supplying hardware and software solutions for real-time and embedded computer applications, ACT/Technico distributes, integrates, and manufactures bus-based computer platforms. Together, Hybricon and ACT/Technico will provide customers with reliable, high performance solutions, enabling faster time-to-market and lowering total cost of ownership.

“Hybricon has long recognized the strategic importance of aligning ourselves with the industry’s leading embedded system integrators. ACT/Technico is an example of one of these companies and we are proud to be associated with such a professional and technically superior company,” Hybricon’s President, Paul Freve said in a statement. “The market is clearly evolving towards integrated turnkey solutions that span the needs for COTS, Military and the newly energized Telecom markets. Hybricon’s experience, knowledge and leadership in engineering and manufacturing robust solutions combined with ACT/Technico’s expertise with their customer markets will provide customers with the highest performance and greatest value solutions available.”

“ACT/Technico is pleased to market complete solutions that utilize knowledge gained through participation in the development of standards-based backplane and packaging technology”, said Ken Grob, Vice President of ACT/Technico. “Hybricon has demonstrated through participation, modeling, and implementation a thorough knowledge of existing and emerging bus and fabric standards for embedded computing. It is this commitment and leadership that will enable ACT/Technico to deliver robust, cost-effective chassis solutions through our partnership with Hybricon.”

About Hybricon Corporation

Hybricon is a world-class, ISO 9001:2000 certified, designer and manufacturer of enclosures, subracks, backplanes and accessories for VME, VME64X, CompactPCI and custom buses. Standard enclosures include desktop, powered rack, portable tower, pizzabox, vertical and horizontal rackmount and military COTS configurations. Products are engineered to meet the most stringent design requirements and provide innovative cooling solutions, EMI/RFI containment, and ruggedized construction. Custom configurations and integration services are available as well as engineering services including thermal/airflow modeling and analysis, signal integrity analysis, backplane modeling and design. For more information, visit Hybricon’s website at www.hybricon.com.

About ACT/Technico

ACT/Technico has been supplying integrated embedded systems for 25 years to companies in communications, military/aerospace, medical imaging, and semiconductor equipment manufacturing. The company provides products, system architecture, hardware, and software design to deliver complete solutions and expedite time to market.

ACT/Technico is also a manufacturer and reseller of embedded hardware and software. The company offers leading edge CPUs, Mass Storage and RAID products, RTOS, Linux or Windows, and device drivers.

The company, based in Ivyland, PA has been in business since 1978 and is privately held. There are additional offices in California, Florida, and Maryland. For more information, please visit www.acttechnico.com , call (215) 957-9071 or e-mail [email protected].