Thursday, January 31, 2013 -TUALATIN, OR - CUI Inc, a subsidiary of CUI Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: CUI), today announced that Design News, a leading technical publication for design engineers, has named the NDM2Z series digital point-of-load (POL) modules as a finalist for their Golden Mousetrap Awards.  The NDM2Z series sets industry benchmarks in efficiency and current density, helping address the growing need to reduce energy usage at the board level in cloud computing and  data processing applications.  Finalists were selected by Design News' editors and an Advisory Board of industry leaders. A winner will be announced Tuesday, February 12th.

This is the third product family from CUI's Novum® Advanced Power group to receive industry recognition in the past three months. In November, the company's NDM2P digital POL series was named to EDN's "100 Hot Products of 2012." Earlier this month CUI announced that Electronic Products had chosen the company's NSM2P "No-Bus" digital POL series as a 2012 Product of the Year.

"We are very pleased that Design News has selected our NDM2Z modules as a finalist for their annual Golden Mousetrap Awards," commented William J. Clough, President and CEO of CUI Global. "The continuing industry recognition of our cutting-edge Novum Advanced Power modules confirms CUI's leadership role in the growing field of digital power and recognizes the achievements of our power design team."

Additional information on the Golden Mousetrap Awards finalists including CUI's NDMZ2 can be found online at http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&cid=Newsletters+-+DN+Daily&doc_id=257098&image_number=10.

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