ISSI Completes $34M Tender Offer for Chingis Technology Corporation

Integrated Silicon Solution ISSI today announced that it has successfully completed its previously announced tender offer for Chingis Technology Corporation ("Chingis") for cash consideration of $34 million, or $15 million net of the approximately $19 million in cash on Chingis' balance sheet. Chingis shares representing 94.1% of total Chingis shares outstanding were successfully tendered. Chingis will now operate as a subsidiary of ISSI, and its results will be reported by ISSI on a consolidated basis beginning September 14, 2012. In conjunction with the completion of the transaction, ISSI has added approximately 72 of Chingis' employees in Taiwan, China, Korea and the United States. Founded in 1995, Chingis provides a variety of NOR flash memory technologies used in standalone and embedded applications with more than 80 worldwide patents and patents pending. Chingis has offices in Taiwan, Korea, China and the United States. For the year ended December 31, 2011, Chingis reported annual revenue of $39.6 million and net income of $2.6 million.