SANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 9, 2007 - QP Semiconductor today confirmed that Eric McLeod has joined the company as group vice president of engineering, reporting to John Stannard, president. In bringing considerable design and executive management experience to this newly created position, McLeod will be responsible for the management of microcircuit design. He will also oversee all engineering functions related to test program development and package engineering.

"Our appointment of Eric affirms our commitment to take the company to the next level of product development and growth, " said QP Semiconductor president, John Stannard. "The addition of McLeod to our core team of technologists and executive management will further boost our leadership position in providing quality devices to our niche market of mil/aero and hi-rel ICs."

McLeod's technology and business experience ranges from executive level positions at Philips Microcontroller Division as VP & GM of the Microcontroller Line and president at ASMC, a semiconductor foundry company based in Shanghai. McLeod also served as GM for Philips, Taiwan. Earlier in his career, McLeod held strategic marketing and business positions at Intel and National Semiconductor. He holds an MS Degree from City University London together with Business Courses from Arizona State University..

About QP Semiconductor

QP Semiconductor is a privately held California company founded in 1985.

The company was initially formed to provide semiconductor assembly, electrical test and qualification services to the military, aerospace and high reliability industries. Today the company is a true fabless semiconductor company that designs, re-engineers and provides a full range of manufacturing capabilities to extend the life of classic ICs for a host of mission-critical programs. The company focuses on providing replacement hermetic parts for DMS, (Diminished Manufacturing Sources) and EOL (End of

Life) products.

QP Semiconductor ranks today as one of the largest fabless manufacturers of high-reliability hermetic ICs for military & aerospace systems. The company provides over 11% of all QML part numbers listed by the Defense Supply Center, Columbus (DSCC).

QP Semiconductor is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with sales representation throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.qpsemi.com.