Networking veteran Michael Thurk joins expanded board of directors bringing experience
in enterprise and infrastructure markets to RMI

Cupertino, CA, March 26, 2008 — RMI Corporation, a leading supplier of multi-core, multi-threaded processors for communications and consumer applications, today announced that it has expanded its Board of Directors to include Michael Thurk, chief operating officer of Avaya, Inc., a leading global provider of business communications
applications, systems and services. Mr. Thurk brings to the RMI board an extensive background in the enterprise and infrastructure markets, as well as a keen understanding of the worldwide converged communications landscape. The new director joins RMI’s board during a period of rapid business growth and will help guide the welldiversified product and technology company as it accelerates its worldwide marketing strategy.

RMI recently expanded the size of its board of directors to seven members. In addition to Mr. Thurk, RMI’s board includes newly appointed members, Donald Schrock, former group president, Qualcomm, Inc. and Richard F. Wallman, former chief financial officer at Honeywell International, Inc., as well as existing members, Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive officer, RMI Corporation, Joe Landy, co-president, Warburg Pincus, LLC, Bruce Dunlevie, senior partner at Benchmark Capital and Henry Kressel, partner and a senior managing director of Warburg Pincus, LLC.

“I am pleased to welcome Michael Thurk to the board of directors at RMI. With his background and success in the infrastructure and enterprise markets, he will be an invaluable asset to the company as we continue to grow our presence in these targeted areas,” commented Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive officer, RMI Corporation. “I look forward to working with Michael and I believe that his acumen and experience will be a great complement to the organization.”

Michael Thurk
Mr. Thurk has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications, data networks, optical networks and IP communications industries. Currently he is the chief operating officer and a member of the board of directors of Avaya, a leading provider of business communications applications, systems and services. Mr. Thurk’s previous roles have included serving as president of Avaya’s Global Communications Solutions group, executive vice president at Ericsson and other management and executive roles at Digital Equipment and General DataComm. Mr. Thurk also was the CEO of Xyplex Networks. Mr. Thurk holds a BSCS from Purdue University and an MBA from Babson College, and he completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD in France. Mr. Thurk is also a member of the board of directors at Ansys, Inc., a publicly traded company.

“I am very happy to be joining the board of directors at RMI and welcome the opportunity to work with a premiere group of directors and the extremely strong management team at RMI,” said Michael Thurk. “The market opportunity for RMI combined with its compelling technology creates a very strong value proposition for the company in the
converged communications markets. I look forward to working with RMI in these exciting times.”

RMI® products push the edge of processor technology in performance and integration, and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to address the infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer markets. The company’s XLR™, XLS™, and Alchemy™ processor families are based on an innovative MIPS-compatible architecture creating highly-integrated designs incorporating advanced internal architectures and built on leading-edge silicon process technologies.

About RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly integrated, feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security markets. RMI offers a broad platform of MIPS-compatible processing solutions
with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at http://www.RMICorp.com.

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