RosettaNet Press Release
eFAB Alliance Entrusts Foundry Industry's Electronic Communications Standard Initiative to RosettaNet

Agilent Technologies, Chartered Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies and Motorola award development of flagship standard to established industry group

For Release May 1, 2000

PALO ALTO, CA --

The eFAB™ Alliance, formed by Agilent Technologies Inc., Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Lucent Technologies and Motorola have selected RosettaNet to architect the first open industry standard for secure electronic communications between foundries and their customers, suppliers and marketing partners.

The move potentially makes RosettaNet the semiconductor industry's broadest sphere of influence in the creation of e-commerce and e-communications standards spanning semiconductor manufacturing through product distribution. By endorsing and accepting the eFAB Alliance, RosettaNet will include foundries among its members with Chartered already being the first. For its part, the current eFAB Alliance members will become representatives working within the RosettaNet organization. As RosettaNet members, they will work to expand participation in standards development to include all other facets of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, including fabbed and fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, and test and assembly service providers.

The Fabless Semiconductor Association has also endorsed the move. "One of the FSA's objectives is to make it easy for companies to utilize the fabless business model," stated Jodi Shelton, executive director of the FSA. "Any standard, such as e-FAB's e-commerce effort, that represents the interests of fabless semiconductor companies is well-received by our organization."

Foundry Standard Status
To date, the eFAB Alliance has outline areas of immediate focus with milestone dates for completion of each. These include online order entry, tracking work in progress (WIP), engineering reports, project status, delivery status, forecasting and planning, and payment. Initial guidelines for WIP have been documented and agreed to by the eFAB Alliance members. The guidelines will be turned over to RosettaNet for development and proliferation throughout the industry. E-commerce standards efforts will be added to the body of work under the auspices of RosettaNet.

The eFAB Alliance members are also members of RosettaNet and will lead efforts within the organization to pace the standards efforts according to industry need and ensure participation of other foundries.

Jennifer Hamilton, chief executive officer of RosettaNet, said, "The mandate to create a standard for foundries gives us full purview over the entire industry supply chain. With this range of responsibility, we have the opportunity to create one of the most comprehensive electronic communications systems utilized by any industry in the world."

Commenting on behalf of the eFAB Alliance, Rob Baxter, Chartered senior vice president of business operations, said, "The eFAB Alliance has entrusted RosettaNet to become the architect of an electronic communications system that is uniform, secure and readily adaptable to any company, regardless of size, in the semiconductor foundry supply chain. As the torch is passed to this independent organization, we look to our industry colleagues to dedicate their energy and ideas to the effort. Our reward will be the beginning a new era in electronic commerce that can potentially match the armchair electronics of internet consumerism."

Background on the eFAB Alliance
Initiated in September 1999, the eFAB Alliance set out to create a model for electronic commerce within the semiconductor foundry industry. By creating an open standard, customers can communicate with any foundry using a uniform electronic system. Since no such system exists today, companies are forced to utilize different systems in different data formats. The result is that customers must sort and reformat data before they can interpret and utilize it. With the eFAB Alliance standard, companies will gain a single point of access for communicating electronically with their foundry. The alliance's goals are to ensure that the electronic communications methodologies are secure, uniform, accurate, simple and complete so that companies of any size can incorporate them with minimal effort.

About Agilent Technologies Inc.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent, a subsidiary of HP, had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.

Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com.

About Chartered
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq:CHRT and SGX-ST: Chartered) is one of the world's leading independent foundries providing wafer fabrication services. Guided by the tenets of trust, service, partnership, advanced technology and stability, the Company aims to provide world-class semiconductor foundry services that enable customers to create and deliver market-leading system-level solutions. Chartered operates five fabrication facilities that serve high-growth, technologically advanced applications such as communications and networking. Headquartered in Singapore, Chartered employs approximately 3400 people at its 11 locations in North America, Asia and Europe.

Chartered completed its global initial public offering in October 1999 and is traded in the United States on Nasdaq and in Singapore on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST). The Company reported 1999 revenues of US $694.3 million. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.charteredsemi.com.

About the Fabless Semiconductor Association
The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) was incorporated in July 1994 by industry leaders wishing to achieve a more optimal balance between wafer demand and capacity for fabless companies. The FSA has over 240 corporate members representing fabless companies, foundry providers, packaging and assembly houses, investment bankers, providers of intellectual property (IP) and a variety of other suppliers and partners.

The mission of the organization is to support the fabless model by encouraging the ongoing, symbiotic relationship between fabless semiconductor companies and suppliers; facilitate productive business partnerships; create awareness and promote the acceptance of the fabless business model; disseminate relevant data; and nurture the creation, adoption and implementation of standards and policies vital to the fabless model. To learn more about the FSA, please visit www.fsa.org.

About Lucent Technologies
Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufacturers integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. Additional information about the Microelectronics Group is available from its web site at www.lucent.com.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as optical and wireless networks; Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com.

About Motorola
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA™ technologies which enable its customers to create "smart" products and new business opportunities in the networking and computing, wireless communications, transportation, and imaging and entertainment markets. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.4 billion (USD) in 1999. http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors/

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1999 were $33.1 billion. http://www.motorola.com

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. Launched in June 1998, RosettaNet is currently in the pilot phase of its implementation cycle.

More than 200 companies representing $1 trillion in annual information technology and electronic components revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet can be found at http://www.rosettanet.org.