OMNIVISION REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THIRD QUARTER OF FISCAL 2007
~ Board of Directors Approves $100 Million Share Repurchase Program ~

Sunnyvale, California, March 1, 2007 – OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a leading supplier of CMOS image sensors, today reported financial results for the quarter ended January 31, 2007, the third quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.

Revenue for the third quarter was $134.4 million, compared to $137.7 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2007, and $137.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. GAAP net income in the quarter, which includes stock-based compensation expense and the related tax effects under FAS 123(R), was $4.1 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $5.4 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, in the second quarter of fiscal 2007. GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2006, prior to the Company’s adoption of FAS 123(R), was $29.6 million, or $0.53 per diluted share.

Non-GAAP net income in the quarter, which excludes stock-based compensation expense and the related tax effects, was $11.1 million and earnings were $0.20 per diluted share. Refer to the attached schedule for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP net income.

Gross margin for the third quarter was 24.9% compared to 33.1% last quarter. The reduction in gross margin reflects continued pricing pressure during the quarter, coupled with the fact that during the quarter, the Company was selling higher cost inventory that was built in previous quarters.

In December 2006, pursuant to the terms of the mutual agreement between the Company and its joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, VisEra Technologies Company, Ltd. (“VisEra”), the Company assumed responsibility for production logistics management previously provided by VisEra. As a consequence, the Company concluded that it was no longer the primary beneficiary of the joint venture, as defined under FIN 46R and deconsolidated VisEra as of January 1, 2007. The deconsolidation of VisEra had no material impact on the Company’s reported revenue or reported net income for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2007.

The Company ended the period with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $341 million, a decrease of $9 million from the previous quarter.

The Company today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of its outstanding common stock. Subject to applicable securities laws, the shares may be repurchased from time to time in the open market. Such purchases will be at times and in amounts as the Company deems appropriate, based on factors such as market conditions, legal requirements and other corporate considerations.

“Our product development teams achieved several notable successes during the January quarter,” said Shaw Hong, OmniVision’s president and chief executive officer. “We have completed the development work for our first TrueFocus™ camera with Wavefront Coding™ technology for the mobile handset market and are now shipping samples to interested customers. We began sample shipments of a 5.17-megapixel auto-focus camera module for mobile handsets. We also introduced a 1/10 inch VGA CameraChip sensor for entry level mobile handsets, secondary cameras for 3G phones and PC notebooks.

“Amid an increasingly competitive environment, these product introductions demonstrate our determination to achieve our goal of recapturing our traditional position as the product leader in the image sensor market. We plan to continue to invest in research and development to stay at the leading edge of the technology curve for our markets.

“We believe that our April fiscal quarter will be a difficult one. However, we can already see the demand environment for our products improving in the July fiscal quarter.

“To demonstrate its confidence in the long-term prospects for our business, our Board of Directors has approved a $100 million stock repurchase program,” concluded Hong.

Outlook

Based on current trends, the Company expects fiscal fourth quarter 2007 revenue will be in the range of $100-$110 million and to incur a net loss which will be between ($0.16) and ($0.08) per share, on a diluted basis. Excluding the estimated expense and related tax effects associated with stock-based compensation in accordance with FAS 123(R), the Company expects its non-GAAP net income (loss) will be in the range of ($0.06) to $0.02 per share, on a diluted basis. Refer to the table below for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP net income. For the first quarter of fiscal 2008, the Company currently believes that revenues will show a substantial recovery from the level projected for the April quarter.

Conference Call

OmniVision Technologies will host a conference call today to further discuss these results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. This conference call may be accessed by dialing 866-761-0749 or 617- 614-2707 and indicating passcode 19839617. The call can be also be accessed via a webcast at www.ovt.com.

A replay of the call will be available for 48 hours beginning approximately one hour after the call. To access this replay, dial 617-801-6888 and enter passcode 14768867. The live call can be accessed via a webcast at www.ovt.com, and the replay will remain available for approximately twelve months at www.ovt.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release, including statements relating to the Company’s expectations regarding (i) its ability to continue to invest in research and development to develop new technology and recapture its position as product leader in the image sensor market, to deliver quality solutions to its customers, (ii) revenue and earnings per share for the quarter ending April 30, 2007, and (iii) the improving demand environment and revenue recovery in the July quarter are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, and important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These important factors include, without limitation, competition in current and emerging markets for image sensor products, including pricing pressures; the Company’s ability to obtain design wins from various image sensor device manufacturers including manufacturers of mobile phone, laptops and PCs, digital still cameras and automobile manufacturers; wafer manufacturing yields and other manufacturing processes; the Company’s ability to accurately forecast customer demand for its products; the development, production, introduction and marketing of new products and technology; the potential loss of one or more key customers or distributors; the continued growth and development of current markets and the emergence of new markets in which the Company sells, or may sell, its products; the acceptance of the Company’s products in such current and new markets; the Company’s strategic investments and relationships, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, the Company’s most recent Annual Report filed on Form 10-K and most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

To supplement the reader’s overall understanding both of our reported results presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and our outlook, we also present non-GAAP measures of net income and earnings per share which are adjusted from results based on GAAP. In particular, we exclude stock-based compensation expense under FAS 123(R), litigation settlement expenses and the related tax effects. The non-GAAP financial measures which we disclose also exclude the effects of FAS 123(R) on the number of diluted common shares used in calculating non-GAAP diluted earnings per share. We provide these nonGAAP financial measures to enhance an investor’s overall understanding of our current financial performance, to allow for a better comparison of results to those in prior periods that did not include such expenses and to assess our prospects for the future. These non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliations to the corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business. The economic basis for our decision to use non-GAAP financial measures is that the adjustments to net income did not reflect the on-going relative strength of our performance. The adjustments reduced our reported net income by approximately $7.0 million and $23.5 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2007 whereas our prior year operating results did not include any similar adjustments. Our objective is to minimize any confusion in the financial markets by providing adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share measurements and disclosing the related components. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP statements.

We use non-GAAP financial measures for internal management purposes to conduct and evaluate our business, when publicly providing our business outlook and to facilitate period-toperiod comparisons. We view non-GAAP net income per share as a primary indicator of the profitability of our underlying business. In addition, because stock-based compensation is a noncash expense and is offset in full by a credit to paid-in capital, it has no effect on total stockholders’ equity. A material limitation associated with the use of these measures as compared to the related GAAP measures is that the non-GAAP financial measures used by our company may be calculated differently from, and therefore may not be comparable to, similarly titled measures used by other companies. Other than share-based compensation, these differences may cause our non-GAAP measures to not be directly comparable to other companies’ nonGAAP measures. Although these non-GAAP financial measures adjust cost, expenses and diluted share items to exclude the accounting treatment of share-based compensation, they should not be viewed as a non-GAAP presentation reflecting the elimination of the underlying share-based compensation programs. Thus, our non-GAAP presentations are not intended to present, and should not be used, as a basis for assessing what our operating results might be if we were to eliminate our share-based compensation programs. We compensate for these limitations by providing full disclosure of the net income and earnings per share on a basis prepared in accordance with GAAP to enable investors to consider net income and earnings per share determined under GAAP as well as on an adjusted basis, and perform their own analysis, as appropriate. As a result of the foregoing limitations, we do not use nor do we intend to use the non-GAAP financial measures when assessing our company’s performance against that of other companies.

Estimating stock-based compensation expense and the related tax effects for a future period is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the price of our stock and the number of option exercises and sales during the quarter.