Tessera Names Michael Bereziuk Chief Operating Officer

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA), a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, announced today it has named Michael Bereziuk, 54, chief operating officer. He previously served as Tessera’s executive vice president, product division. In his new role, Bereziuk will be responsible for the company’s packaging, interconnect, and consumer optics businesses, which includes research and development, marketing, and sales. "I’m excited to announce Mike’s new role in the company,” said Bruce McWilliams, Tessera’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This is a very exciting time for Tessera, because of the growth opportunity for our core business, and the potential for our next generation technologies. Mike has played a key role in the successful integration of our newly acquired businesses. His experience, vision, and passion are very valuable to us as we drive our next-generation products into volume production.” "Over the past two years, Tessera has grown immensely both through acquisition and organic means,” said Bereziuk. "We are a global company with a very bright future, and I am very pleased and excited at the appointment and the opportunity that comes with it to help drive Tessera’s growth both in Advanced Packaging, Interconnect, and Consumer Optics.” Prior to joining Tessera in February 2006, Bereziuk spent the majority of his career at National Semiconductor Corporation. During his sixteen year tenure there, he held numerous senior operations, sales and marketing roles. In his most recent position at National, he was senior vice president and general manager of the worldwide sales and marketing organization, where he held demand creation and order management responsibilities for the company’s $2.0 plus billion global customer base. Other positions included senior vice president and general manager of the personal systems group and vice president and general manager of the embedded systems group, where he managed the strong growth of National’s highly successful Super-I/O™ business. About Tessera Technologies, Inc. Tessera is a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry. Tessera 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 Global Select Market under the symbol TSRA. Tessera is headquartered in San Jose, California. 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 July 1, 2007 include more information about factors that could affect the company's financial results. Note: Tessera and the Tessera logo are trademarks of Tessera. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.