MINDSPEED^®  AND FIRMIX SPEED DESIGN OF PBX EQUIPMENT BASED ON COMCERTO™ VOIP PROCESSORS AND ASTERISK™ SOFTWARE

Firmix API Channel Module for Comcerto Processors Integrated into Asterisk Open
Source PBX Application Enables OEM Customers to Achieve Faster Time-to-Market

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 28, 2005 - Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Firmix has integrated a customized application programming interface (API) channel module for Comcerto enterprise voice-over-IP (VoIP) processors into the Asterisk Open Source PBX application, enhancing the time-to-market advantage of enterprise equipment customers designing open-source-based PBX systems.

Based in Vienna, Austria, Firmix Software GmbH, is a leading developer of customized Linux-based software. Integrating Mindspeed’s Comcerto VoIP processors with the Asterisk Open Source PBX application and customized Firmix API module provides a complete system-on-chip PBX solution with carrier-class quality and performance.

“We are excited to integrate a customized Linux-based API channel module for Mindspeed’s Comcerto processors into Asterisk to enable developers of PBX systems to get to market quickly,” said Peter Zwerina, managing director of Firmix.

“Mindspeed is focused on enabling our customers to leverage open-source applications. Adding the Firmix API to our powerful Comcerto processor and Asterisk Open Source PBX combination, enables our mutual enterprise equipment customers to significantly reduce R&D costs and time-to-market, while improving their real-time performance and scalability ,” said Steve McClure, executive director of marketing for Mindspeed.

Mindspeed’s Comcerto architecture is optimized for VoIP applications with separate signal and packet processors. It integrates high-performance DSP cores and a packet-processing engine with industry-standard streaming packet interfaces to provide a high-density VoIP and voice-over-ATM system on a single chip.

Comcerto processors can also be combined with other open-source software applications to provide developers with an embedded platform for creating a wide variety of new services and capabilities.

About Mindspeed Technologies®
          With headquarters in Newport Beach, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks.
          The company’s four key product families include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks, T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices, and ATM/MPLS network processors.
          Mindspeed’s products are used in a wide variety of network infrastructure equipment including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment.
          To learn more, visit the company at www.mindspeed.com.

About Firmix
           Founded 2003 in Vienna, Austria, Firmix Software is a provider of Linux-based embedded system technologies and solutions for the telecommunication and automation industry.
          With extensive experience in developing embedded telecommunication products, Firmix offers professional software engineering services to reduce the time-to-market of Linux-based devices. Especially vendors in the telecommunications industry benefit from the Firmix know-how of embedded Linux, telephony and LAN /WAN technology. Well-known international companies trust in Firmix as a competent and reliable partner.
          Additionally to their commercial work, team members of Firmix are also involved in open-source projects as contributors and project leaders.
          Find out more at  www.firmix.at


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          This press release contains statements relating to Mindspeed, and our future results, including certain projections and business trends, that are “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results, and actual events that occur, may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: market demand for our new and existing products; availability and terms of capital needed for our business; our ability to reduce our cash consumption; successful development and introduction of new products; obtaining design wins and developing revenues from them; pricing pressures and other competitive factors; order and shipment uncertainty; fluctuations in manufacturing yields; product defects; intellectual property infringement claims by others and the ability to protect our intellectual property; our ability to maintain operating expenses within anticipated levels; the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed from time to time in the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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