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Intersil Promotes Dr. Rajeeva Lahri to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Technology Group

MILPITAS, CA, June 2, 2005 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog solutions, today announced the promotion of Rajeeva Lahri to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Technology Group. In addition, Dr. Lahri will continue to serve as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer. The Worldwide Operations and Technology Group include information systems, worldwide procurement, packaging, process technology, operations planning, fab operations, test & assembly, and foundry operations.

“Rajeeva and his team have been instrumental in transforming our worldwide operations and technology group into a top performing organization. He has executed our “Fab-Lite” strategy which involves blending internal manufacturing in our Palm Bay and Milpitas locations with the use of outside partners for fab, probe, assembly, and test,” said Rich Beyer, CEO and President. “The worldwide operations and technology group has played a key role in the transformation of Intersil to a high performance analog semiconductor company.”

Dr. Lahri has over 23 years of experience in a variety of technology and operations roles. Dr. Lahri joined Elantec in May 2001 as Sr. Vice President, Technology and Operations. In May 2002, after Intersil’s acquisition of Elantec, Dr. Lahri became Chief Technology Officer of Intersil. In August 2003, he took on overall responsibility for the Company’s global operations and technology organizations.

Prior to Elantec and Intersil, Dr. Lahri held positions as Sr. Vice President and COO at Tessera Technologies Inc., a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry; Sr. Vice President and Deputy CTO at Philips Semiconductor; and Sr. Vice President, R&D and Customer Engineering at VLSI Technology, Inc.

Lahri holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York, Buffalo, and MS degrees in Solid State Electronics and Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Intersil Corporation, a NASDAQ-100 Index company, is a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog semiconductors. The company's products address three of the industry's fastest growing markets: flat panel displays, optical storage (CD and DVD recordable) and power management. Intersil products include power management devices for battery management, hot-swap and hot-plug controllers, linear regulators, supervisory ICs, switching DC-DC regulators and power MOSFET drivers; optical storage laser diode drivers; DSL line drivers; video and high performance operational amplifiers; data converters; interface ICs; analog switches and multiplexers; crosspoint switches; voice-over-IP devices; and ICs for military, space and rad-hard applications. 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 http://www.intersil.com.