Northgate Innovations Announces New Product to Support The AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor

Industry Ca. -- 9/23/2003 -- Northgate Innovations, Inc. (OTCBB:NGTEE), today announced that Northgate’s brand new AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-based systems will be immediately available.

Northgate’s products will feature the AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, include 1 GB of DDR memory and a 160 GB hard drive.

“We are very excited to be able to support this new technology launch in collaboration with AMD and some key retail customers”, said Bob Anderson, vice president of business development at Northgate. “These brand new products continue to demonstrate Northgate’s commitment to offering its customers products at the forefront of the market.”

The AMD64 architecture provides world-class performance on today’s pervasive 32-bit applications and tomorrow’s 64-bit PC applications. The personal computing experience is changing. It is becoming more interactive with better graphics and more digital media for a cinematic computing experience supported only by AMD64 systems and software.

”AMD is working with Northgate to offer a superior computing experience,” said Tim Wright, director, desktop marketing, AMD’s Computation Products Group. “The AMD Athlon 64 processor offers exceptional performance for today’s 32-bit applications with the ability to take advantage of tomorrow’s immersive 64-bit software offerings.”

About Northgate
Northgate is an ISO 9002 certified, leading manufacturer of PCs, notebooks, workstations and servers. The Company is well recognized by consumers and business users as a result of its extended TV and retail exposure over the last thirteen years, as well as its substantial installed base of customers accumulated over this period.

Northgate products are recognized for their quality and innovation. Northgate supports its products with quality components, extensive testing, and around the clock toll-free customer service.

AMD, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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