Tessera - Mobile World Congress Barcelona - 2008

Tessera - Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2008

Tessera to Display Consumer Optics and Semiconductor Packaging Technologies at Mobile World Congress

SAN JOSE, Calif., – February 8, 2008 – Tessera Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA), a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, will display its full portfolio of OptiML™ consumer optics solutions at Mobile World Congress.

The OptiML Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) technology, recently named a Product of the Year by Electronic Products magazine and an EDN Innovation Award finalist, is designed to significantly advance the integration of miniaturized cameras in applications including mobile phones. The company’s OptiML Focus image enhancement technology increases the picture quality for devices such as mobile phones, by bringing an image into focus automatically and simultaneously, without any moving parts.

Tessera will also display its µPILR™ packaging technology, which enables OEMs and semiconductor manufacturers to increase features and functionality of mobile devices, in smaller, sleeker form factors.

WHAT: Tessera executives will be available to discuss:

• OptiML consumer optics solutions
• µPILR packaging technology
• Recent announcement regarding Tessera’s intent to acquire FotoNation, a leading provider of embedded imaging solutions for digital still-camera and mobile phone applications. FotoNation’s technology is embedded in more than two out of three digital still cameras sold today.
• Recent announcement regarding Tessera’s licensing agreement with Nemotek, the first company to license both the OptiML WLC technology and SHELLCASE® Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) solutions

WHERE: Hall 2.1, Stand D16

Mobile World Congress
Barcelona, Spain
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
WHEN: February 11-14, 2008

About Tessera

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA) is a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry. The company provides a broad range of advanced packaging, interconnect, and consumer optics solutions which are widely adopted in high-growth markets including consumer, computing, communications, medical and defense electronics. Tessera’s customers include the world’s top semiconductor companies such as Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Micron and Infineon. The company’s stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol TSRA. Tessera is headquartered in San Jose, California. For information call 1.408.894.0700 or go to www.tessera.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ significantly from those projected. Material factors that may cause results to differ from the statements made include delays, setbacks or losses relating to our intellectual property or intellectual property litigations, or any invalidation or limitation of our key patents; fluctuations in our operating results due to the timing of new license agreements and royalties, or due to legal costs; changes in patent laws, regulation or enforcement, or other factors that might affect our ability to protect our intellectual property; the risk of a decline in demand for semiconductor products; failure by the industry to adopt our technologies; competing technologies; the future expiration of our patents; the future expiration of our license agreements and the cessation of related royalty income; the failure or refusal of licensees to pay royalties; failure to achieve the growth prospects and synergies expected from acquisition transactions; and delays and challenges associated with integrating acquired companies with our existing businesses. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. Tessera's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 include more information about factors that could affect the company's financial results.

Tessera and the Tessera logo are registered trademarks and OptiML is a trademark of Tessera. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contacts:

Julie Seymour
Tessera
jseymour@tessera.com
+1.408.836.3947
Destanie Clarke
DestaniePR Ltd
destanie@destaniepr.com
+44 7753 826162