Expected next investor conference call information:
Conference Call Date: 9/23/2009
Conference Call Time (ET): 5:30 PM
Conference Call URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=2808300

Expected next investor conference call information:
Conference Call Date: 9/23/2009
Conference Call Time (ET): 5:30 PM
Conference Call URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=2808300

"After an extensive evaluation of competitive solutions, we selected Snowbush's high speed PCIe 3.0 PHY IP because it is the best solution available in the market today. Snowbush's reputation for high quality, reliable first-pass silicon offered our designers confidence that incorporating this IP block into our newest supercomputer design will give us a competitive edge in the market place," said Peg Williams, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Cray.

Initially launched in June 2009, the Snowbush PCIe PHY satisfies the 8 GT/s speed requirement of PCIe 3.0, and exceeds the anticipated critical specifications for jitter performance over harsh channels. Low latency and power requirements in the link layer provide substantial margin to designers for creating robust products with excellent interoperability.

"Being the first to market with reliable first pass PCIe 3.0 IP silicon, is critical to ensuring that our customers get their new designs to market faster. Our leadership in developing serial-link IP at speeds of 5G or greater is encouraging Tier 1 customers, such as Cray, to adopt the IP and take advantage of this higher speed technology as they develop next generation interconnect solutions into their new designs," said Ewald Liess, General Manager of the Snowbush IP group for Gennum.

About Snowbush PCIe 3.0 IP

Snowbush PCIe 3.0 IP is architected for low power and area on both the PHY and Data Link layer. The PCIe 3.0 PHY features a proprietary low power 5-tap Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) and a high-pefromance H-bridge transmit driver. The PHY silicon footprint is small and includes the I/Os, ESD structures, and PCS Layer, in 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-lane configurations to reduce silicon cost. Each lane of the PHY can be configured to operate in Gen 1, Gen 2, or Gen 3 mode. Multiple 4-lane PHYs can be configured as x8, x16, x32, and greater links. An on-chip Fractional-N PLL Frequency Synthesizer with integrated Spread Spectrum Clocking is used for simplified external clocking and reduced SoC complexity.

About the Gennum Snowbush IP Group

The Gennum Snowbush IP group offers a team of interconnect specialists to design and deliver silicon-proven, high-speed serial interface IP. Comprising one of the industry's most robust, widely-deployed, production-tested and customizable family of IP cores, the Snowbush IP portfolio satisfies the needs of today's most demanding high-speed serial communication protocols and applications. Snowbush IP offers integrated PHY and Controller solutions for standards like USB, PCI Express(R) and Serial ATA (SATA), and single and multi-standard SerDes for applications with data rates from 1 Gb/s to over 10 Gb/s. Gennum's Snowbush IP group is committed to supporting customers with diverse foundry and process requirements, offering IP cores for TSMC, UMC, Common Platform, and Fujitsu processes. For more information visit www.snowbush.com

About Gennum

Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world's most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company's proven optical, analog and mixed-signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity. An award winner for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Germany, United States, Taiwan, India and the United Kingdom. www.Gennum.com.

Snowbush IP, Gennum and related logos are trademarks of Gennum Corporation. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright Gennum Corporation, 2009.

Contacts:
Gennum Corporation
Keri Fraser
Director Marketing Communications
613.697.6788
Keri.fraser@gennum.com

SOURCE: Gennum Corporation

mailto:Keri.fraser@gennum.com

- Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

- Time: 8:30 a.m. ET (Breakfast Reception starts at 7:30 a.m. ET)

- Location: Metropolitan Hotel, 108 Chestnut Street, Toronto, Ontario

- Live Audio Webcast: Will be made available at www.gennum.com

Research analysts and institutional investors who are interested in attending are encouraged to contact Jennifer Savory by email at: Jennifer.Savory@gennum.com. Media and other interested individuals are invited to listen to the live webcast on Gennum's corporate website at: www.gennum.com. (An accompanying presentation will also be made available for download.) The day is being planned to have plenty of informal interaction with a large number of Gennum's executive and senior management team.

About Gennum

Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world's most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company's proven optical, analog and mixed-signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity. An award winner for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Germany, United States, Taiwan, India and the United Kingdom. www.Gennum.com.

Contacts:
Gennum Media Contact:
Gennum Corporation
Keri Fraser
613-697-6788
keri.fraser@gennum.com

Gennum Investor Relations Contact:
Gennum Corporation
Gord Currie
Senior Vice-President, Finance & Administration and CFO
(905) 632-2999 x3060
gord.currie@gennum.com

SOURCE: Gennum Corporation

mailto:keri.fraser@gennum.com
mailto:gord.currie@gennum.com