Beken Corporation Named Winner of 2007 `Red Herring 100 Asia' Award

Beken Corporation Named Winner of 2007 `Red Herring 100 Asia' Award

September 07, 2007

    HONGKONG, Sept. 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Beken
Corporation, a leading global provider of IC solutions for
wireless communications, announced today that it has been
named a winner of the prestigious `Red Herring 100 Asia
2007' awards.  The news was announced at a gala dinner
during the `Red Herring 100 Asia' event in Hong Kong,
China.  

    Winners of the `Red Herring 100 Asia' 2007 awards were
selected from a pool of more than 600 applicants based in
16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan,
Singapore, Korea, Australia and Vietnam. The Red Herring
editorial team carefully selected the winning companies
based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as
financial performance, technology innovation, quality of
management, execution of strategy, and integration into
their ecosystem.  The names of the 200 companies
short-listed as finalists along with the 100 announced
winners can be found online at
http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html . 

    "After a rigorous evaluation process, we're very
happy with winners we selected," said Joel Dreyfuss,
Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring.  "There was a large
pool to choose from and we're impressed by the caliber and
innovative talent bursting from Asia's business and
technology sector."

    Incorporated in 2005, Beken Corporation is committed to
providing IC solutions for wireless communications with the
best optimal cost-performance ratio.  With a strategic
emphasis on developing CMOS transceivers operating in the
higher less congested 5.8-GHz band, Beken's solution
enables a more reliable interference free wireless link.  
Exhibiting its unparalleled execution capability, within
less than two years after inception, Beken has delivered
the world's first fully integrated single chip 5.8-GHz CMOS
SOC for wireless voice applications, achieving design wins
with multiple international brand names. 

    "Being selected a winner of the prestigious `Red
Herring 100 Asia' is an excellent recognition of the great
progress Beken has made since its inception two years
ago," said Pengfei Zhang, CEO and co-founder of Beken
Corporation. "Beken continues to grow its product
portfolio and expand its addressable market by providing
more innovative solutions that are low cost yet high
performance."

    About Beken Corporation

    Beken Corporation is a fabless design house providing
IC solutions for wireless applications such as cordless
phones, industrial control, consumer game controller, meter
reading, wireless audio, security surveillance and wireless
toys. Beken builds up its product portfolio based on
RF-CMOS transceiver technology, operating frequency covers
900-MHz, 2.4-GHz ISM bands and 5.8-GHz UNII band. For more
information, visit http://www.bekencorp.com .

    About Red Herring

    Red Herring is a global media company uniting the
world's best high technology innovators, venture investors
and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a
leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology
news service; technology research, and major events for
technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides
an insider's access to the global innovation economy,
featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging
technologies driving the economy. For more information,
visit http://www.redherring.com .

    For more information, please contact:

     Wenjie Xu
     Tel:    [phone] x809
     Email:  [e-mail]
     Web:    http://www.bekencorp.com