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Intersil Selected to Power Pentium 4 and DDR Memory on Gigabyte's New Award Winning Motherboards

-- Intersil's Endura solutions selected for efficiency and reliability to ensure product quality

IRVINE, CA, August 8, 2002 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions, today announced that its highly efficient and reliable Endura™ power solutions have again been selected by Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd., one of the world’s leading motherboard manufacturers, to power their new Titan GA-8IGX and GA-8IEXP motherboards. These award-winning platforms are based on the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor and employ DDR226 memory along with many high-performance features. Intersil brings quality and reliability to help ensure long-term end-customer satisfaction.

“Gigabyte’s selection of Intersil to provide critical power control for all of their Pentium 4 processor-based motherboards is confirmation of Intersil’s high-quality products and industry-leading customer support,” said Rick Furtney, vice president and general manager of Intersil’s High Performance Analog Product Group. “Gigabyte has once again demonstrated their leadership position in motherboard innovation with the addition of these high-value, highly rated platforms. We are pleased to have such a strong supportive relationship with Gigabyte.”

“It is gratifying to see the high status our new Titan motherboards have achieved in the market place. These new boards have received many outstanding awards, high rankings and wide acceptance throughout the industry,” said Richard Ma, president of Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. “To achieve this success, we had to build quality and high performance into these products while offering a high value to price ratio. That is why we again selected Intersil to power these new Titan motherboards. Our partnership in quality continues.”

Gigabyte’s New Feature-Rich Titan GA-8IGX and GA-8IEXP Platforms
The Gigabyte Titan GA-8IGX and GA-8IEXP motherboards are based on the Intel 845G and 845E chip sets respectively. The GA-8IGX is positioned for the “value” markets and provides on-board graphics capability while the GA-8IEXP is positioned for the “enthusiast” or high-performance market offering extensive expansion port features. Both platforms are designed for the latest mPGA 478 socket Intel Pentium 4 processors and offer a 533/400 MHz FSB along with up to 2 GB of DDR266 memory. In addition to legacy printer and comm ports, both boards offer two USB 2.0 ports and an RJ45 LAN port. The GA-8IEXP platform offers three IEEE 1394 ports and a memory card reader connector to which popular memory module readers can be connected. More detailed information on these advanced boards, and the many awards they have won, can be obtained from the Gigabyte Web site at: http://www.giga-byte.com/

Intersil’s Power Solution for Gigabyte’s Titan Motherboards
Power solutions for Gigabyte’s Titan motherboards include the industry’s most advanced and efficient multiphase chip sets for the latest Intel Pentium 4 technology and chip sets. Core power solutions include Intersil’s Endura HIP6301 two-to-four-phase PWM controller combined with HIP6601B synchronous rectified buck n-channel MOSFET drivers or Intersil’s Endura HIP6302 two-phase PWM controller combined with a single HIP6602 dual-channel synchronous rectified buck n-channel MOSFET driver. These combinations provide the most balanced and efficient core supply in existence today. Reference designs are provided and enable the quick and easy transfer of the core regulator layout from one motherboard to another. This greatly reduces the customer’s costs and time to market.

The Intersil Endura ISL6520A provides DDR memory core voltage regulation. The ISL6520A is a single-phase, single-output, synchronous PWM buck controller that powers the DDR memory core or termination and offers small size and high efficiency over the industrial temperature range. The controller comes in an 8-pin SOIC and 16L 4x4 MLFP and includes single-supply operation, digital soft start, and low-cost upper FET Rds(on) sensing. To learn more about this and other Endura power management products, visit the Intersil Power Management Web site at: http://www.intersil.com/design/powermanagement/index.asp

About Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1986 and based in Taiwan, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. has become a world leader in PC and server motherboard manufacturing. Gigabyte supplies the world’s leading desktop, notebook and server manufacturers with high-performance high-value motherboards. The company’s rapid growth has been frequently recognized with many honors and awards. Gigabyte is well known for: a high product performance to price ratio, rapid and flexible supply capability, high standards of continuous quality improvement, and prompt, long-lasting and extensive customer service. The company has extensive research and development and manufacturing resources that are leveraged to expand products into other areas of information technology while maintaining a leadership position in the PC and server arenas.

Intersil + Elantec Means More for Our Customers
Intersil Corporation is a global semiconductor leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions. The acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., expanded Intersil’s product portfolios to address four fast growing markets – flat panel displays, optical storage (CD and DVD recordable), power management and wireless networking. Intersil brings added customer value in providing complete silicon, software and reference design solutions to new products that enhance the computing experience for people wherever they live, work or travel. For more information about Intersil or to find out how to become a member of our winning team, visit the company's web site and career page at: www.intersil.com This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 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