Tessera Names Charles Webster Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

"Charlie joins Tessera with extensive semiconductor industryknowledge and 20 years of background in financial management andbusiness," said McWilliams. "We are excited to have Charlie join ouralready strong team, as he will complement our senior management as weforge ahead with our growth strategy."

Michael A. Forman, Vice President of Finance and Administration,will continue to be responsible for financial administration andinvestor relations.

Webster, 43, was Corporate Vice President, Finance and Treasury ofKLA-Tencor Corporation, an S&P 500 company and world leader in yieldmanagement and process control solutions for semiconductormanufacturing and related industries. While at KLA-Tencor from July2002 until August 2006, he was responsible for finance and accountingof all product divisions, corporate financial planning and analysis,treasury and investor relations and previously served as VP of SupplyChain Management and VP of Materials. From 1997 through June 2002,Webster worked for the Bechtel Group and Nexant, Inc. In January 2000,he led the Nexant spin-off from Bechtel and then served as Nexant'sEVP and CFO, where he led four acquisitions and three rounds offinancing as well as business development, financial planning andreporting, audit, tax and treasury. From 1993 through 1996, Websterwas VP and portfolio manager for Oppenheimer Capital's global equityinvestment team. He began his career with Duke University and PriceWaterhouse. Webster has a Masters in Public Administration fromHarvard University, and a double major in economics and internationalrelations from Stanford University.

About Tessera Technologies, Inc.

Tessera Technologies, through its wholly-owned subsidiariesTessera, Inc., Tessera Israel, and Digital Optics Corporation, is aleading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronicsindustry. Tessera enables new levels of miniaturization andperformance by applying its unique expertise in the electrical,thermal, and mechanical properties of materials and interconnects, aswell as in micro-optics structures. As a result, Tessera'stechnologies are widely adopted in high-growth markets includingconsumer, computing, communications, medical and defense. Tessera'scustomers include the world's top semiconductor companies such asIntel, Samsung, Renesas, Toshiba and Texas Instruments. The company'sstock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol TSRA.Tessera is headquartered in San Jose, California. www.tessera.com.

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