SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - January 27, 2009) -

WHAT: eSilicon Corporation chairman, president and CEO Jack Harding will be the co-host of this thought-provoking event sponsored by eSilicon and presented by Vermont Tiger, a non-partisan, non-profit advocacy and media enterprise. The all-day symposium will feature three guest speakers, Alain E. Kaloyeros, Senior Vice President, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the University at Albany-SUNY, Carl Guardino, President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Megan McArdle, associate editor of Atlantic Monthly. The event will also feature two panels called "Getting it Done - From the Inside, Out and From the Outside, In." These speakers and panels consisting of prominent Vermonters will explore strategies for surviving the recession and for promoting economic development, growth and prosperity in the Green Mountain State.

For more information about this event, please go to: www.vermonttiger.com

WHEN: Monday, February 2, 2009 from 8.30am - 6.00pm (EST)

WHERE: Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT.

About eSilicon:

eSilicon, a leading Value Chain Producer (VCP) for the semiconductor industry, provides a comprehensive suite of design, productization and manufacturing services, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume chip production. The company delivers custom chips (ASICs) to system OEMs and fabless semiconductor companies who serve a wide variety of markets including the consumer, computer, communications and industrial segments. For more information, please go to www.esilicon.com

About Vermont Tiger:

Vermont Tiger is a non-partisan, non-profit advocacy and media enterprise. Through a website, print publications, symposiums and other events, this enterprise promotes policies and political action aimed at sustained, environmentally sound economic growth and prosperity in the Green Mountain State. Vermont Tiger is about the future of Vermont... and ensuring that it has one. For more information, please go to www.vermonttiger.com

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