Silicom Declares $1.00/Share Dividend in Respect of Its 2016 Results

KFAR SAVA, Israel, March 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend in the amount of US $1.00 per share in respect of its 2016 results, representing an aggregate distribution of approximately US $7.4 million. The dividend is in accordance with the policy announced in January 2013, and will be paid on April 5, 2017 to all shareholders of record at the close of the NASDAQ Global Select Market on March 27, 2017.

"We are pleased to distribute our annual dividend in line with the policy we launched four years ago, a reflection of our continued success and our dedication to the creation of shareholder value," stated Shaike Orbach, Silicom's President and CEO. "Through determined execution of a proven strategy, we achieved a record $100 million revenues in 2016.  We believe that the momentum of our target markets, coupled with our reputation for performance-boosting innovations and uncompromising customer support, will generate continued strong growth for Silicom in the future."

About Silicom
Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to increase data center efficiency, Silicom's solutions dramatically improve the performance and availability of networking appliances and other server-based systems.

Silicom's products are used by a large and growing base of OEM customers, many of whom are market leaders, as performance-boosting solutions for their offerings in the Cyber Security, Network Monitoring and Analytics, Traffic Management, Application Delivery, WAN Optimization, High Frequency Trading and other mission-critical segments within the fast-growing data center, enterprise networking, virtualization, cloud computing and big data markets. Silicom's product portfolio includes multi-port 1/10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet server adapters, Intelligent Bypass solutions, Encryption accelerators, Ultra Low Latency solutions, Time Stamping and other innovative Smart adapters. These products are available for incorporation directly into our OEM customers' systems, or provided as part of Silicom's patented SETAC (Server To Appliance Converter), a unique approach to the provision of high quality standard platforms with modular front connectivity.

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