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Elantec Semiconductor Names Rajeeva Lahri As Senior Vice President Of Technology And Operations

MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, May 17, 2001 - Elantec Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNT), a leader in high performance analog integrated circuits, announces the appointment of Rajeeva Lahri as Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations, reporting to the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Rich Beyer.

Mr. Lahri joined Elantec in April 2001 as Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations. Prior to accepting this position, Mr. Lahri served as Senior Vice President and COO for Tessera Inc., a company that provides intellectual property for chip-scale packaging. Prior to Tessera, Mr. Lahri served as Senior Vice President and Deputy CTO for Philips Semiconductor. Previously Mr. Lahri was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Technology and Customer Engineering for VLSI Technology Inc., prior to its acquisition by Philips Semiconductor. His prior experience also included the position of Director of Technology Development at Fairchild/National Semiconductor, and the position of Member of Technical Staff for the CMOS R&D group at Hewlett Packard Corporation. Mr. Lahri holds a Master of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Technology degree in Solid State Electronics, both from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. In addition, Mr. Lahri holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York in Buffalo, New York.

"All of us at Elantec are delighted to have Rajeeva join our management team. With over 20 years of extensive semiconductor experience, he is extremely qualified to support Elantec's operational and process technology thrusts which are crucial to our aggressive growth plans," stated Rich Beyer, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Elantec designs, manufactures and markets high-performance analog integrated circuits primarily for the video, optical storage, communications and power management markets. The company targets high-growth commercial markets in which advances in digital integrated circuit technology are driving increasing demand for high-speed, high-performance and low-power consumption analog circuits.