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Dacy Yee
REDSonic, Inc.
Tel: (949) 833-9679 ext. 133
E-mail: dyee@redsonic.com

FOR RELEASE ON AUGUST 28, 2001, 8:00 A.M. PST

REDSonic Expands into South-East Asia with a 
New Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in Singapore

SANTA ANA, Calif. and SINGAPORE, - August 28, 2001 - REDSonic, Inc., a leader
in real-time Linux solutions for the embedded market, today announced its
expansion into South-East Asia with the opening of its REDSonic SEA office.
REDSonic SEA is a new wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.

REDSonic SEA will follow REDSonic's business efforts of providing real-time
Linux solutions to the embedded marketplace by offering products like
RED-Builder™, an easy-to-use tool for configuring, building, downloading, and
remotely debugging target images to the application platform, RED-Probe™, a
tool for monitoring the real-time system, and SecureSOHO, REDSonic's gateway
and firewall software.

In addition, the office will provide engineering services, including
application development and porting services. Also, REDSonic SEA will provide
training courses and workshops beginning in the fourth quarter of this year,
including an introduction to Linux course, an introduction to building
information appliances workshop, an introduction to building robust Linux
systems workshop, a building information appliances course, and a building
robust Linux systems course.

For REDSonic, the opening of REDSonic SEA provides a window into South-East
Asia and access to countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and India.
"One of our company's goals has always been to build a strong presence in
Asia. The opening of REDSonic SEA in Singapore helps to solidify that goal,"
said Kwei-Jay Lin, CEO at REDSonic.

REDSonic views Singapore as a growing center of innovation and technology and
hopes to contribute to its growth. "We've seen an influx of high-technology
companies into Singapore and we feel the area is growing exponentially in
terms of cutting-edge technology," stated Lin. "We hope our technology and
presence helps advance Singapore's thriving high-technology development."

The location of the office allows REDSonic to develop and foster strategic
relationships with companies in that region. "We are currently building
partnerships with several companies in the Singapore Technology Group, and
the location of our new office facilitates the building of these
relationships," stated Lin.

About REDSonic, Inc.
REDSonic, Inc. is a leader in total real-time Linux solutions for both
embedded and server systems markets. With its headquarters in Santa Ana,
Calif., and offices in Taiwan and Singapore, REDSonic offers a complete
integrated development environment (IDE) that includes REDICE-Linux™, a
real-time Linux kernel, and builder tools to develop embedded systems. The
company also provides professional services, including training, support,
porting, and custom-application development. For more information, please
visit www.redsonic.com or call 949-833-9679.

REDSonic, REDICE-Linux, RED-Builder, and RED-Probe are trademarks of
REDSonic, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of the companies with
which they are associated.