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Intersil To Establish High Performance Analog Product Design Center in India

-- New Indian Design Center to be located in Bangalore region~-- Managing Director of new facility named

MILPITAS, CA, April 1, 2004 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog solutions, announced today that it is establishing a center for the design and development of new high performance analog products in India. Intersil Analog Services Private Limited (IAS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Intersil Corporation, has been incorporated with the Registrar of Corporations in Bangalore, India for this purpose.

The new design facility will be a center of excellence for high performance analog products, with an initial focus on the design of high-speed data converters. Additionally, it will undertake development and integration activities for associated high performance analog products. Over time, the company expects the team to expand their design activities into other analog categories including amplifiers, high-speed interface and high-speed analog-to-digital converters for various target markets Intersil addresses. The IAS team will work with Intersil’s marketing teams and key customers to define, develop and introduce leading edge high performance analog products.

“We’re very excited about establishing a design center in India and have hired a managing director and selected a site in the Bangalore region,” said Michael Althar, vice president of Standard Analog Products at Intersil. “Once established, the new design center will begin development work for derivative and core-based products. When the team is familiar with Intersil products and processes, we’ll transition them to the full development of leading edge high performance analog products. We have great confidence in the caliber of the engineering talent in India overall, and Bangalore specifically; that is a primary reason why we’ve decided to establish a new design center in this region.”

Concurrently with the establishment of the design center, Intersil is announcing the appointment of C.S. Balasubramanian (Bala) as Managing Director of IAS. In this role, Bala will have overall responsibility for the establishment of the design center including facilitation and hiring of the development team. “We are very pleased to have someone with Bala’s talents and broad experience leading the Bangalore team and feel confident in his ability to establish and grow the facility in the coming years,” said Althar. “Bala brings with him experience in growing and running the Insilica Semiconductor facility in Bangalore where he was general manager, as well as having held key new product development and CAD methodology management roles with National Semiconductor, including being GM of National’s design center in Bangalore.”

Bala is currently engaged in the finalizing lease and other arrangements at a site soon to be announced. He is also actively recruiting engineers for the data converter design and layout teams. Applicants interested in being considered for these positions can learn more about careers at Intersil by visiting http://www.intersil.com/careers and may submit email resumes to: indiajobs@intersil.com

Intersil expects that the new design center’s capabilities and design activities will expand into design and applications support of other Intersil product families as the team becomes knowledgeable of Intersil processes and systems; this will likely include support functions for converter-based, application specific standard product (ASSP) designs. About Intersil
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 www.intersil.com.

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