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Intersil Wins EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Award

-- New Digital Multiphase Power Control for future-generation CPUs wins in Power Sources category

MILPITAS, CA, April 23, 2003 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions, today announced that its advanced Digital Multiphase Power (DMP) technology has won the EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Award in the Power Sources category. This exclusive awards program, sponsored by EDN Magazine, is dedicated to honoring truly outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry.

A panel of EDN’s technical editors selected finalist products in each of seventeen categories. Intersil Corporation had its Digital Multiphase Power technology selected in the Power Sources category. Visitors to EDN’s Web site during a two-week period in March voted online to determine the final winners in each category.

All finalists were honored and winners were announced last evening at EDN’s Innovation/Innovator Awards ceremony at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco. Winners will be published in the May 1, 2003 issue of EDN and will be posted today at EDN’s Web site - http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/

“It is a great honor to have been selected as a winner in EDN’s 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards competition,” said Rick Furtney, vice president and general manager of Intersil’s High Performance Analog Products Group. “Our new Digital Multiphase Power Control technology is truly innovative, offering a totally new and significantly more accurate power control paradigm for next-generation high-current and sub-volt multi-GHz CPUs. With DMP and our highly developed analog power solutions, we continue our leadership in powering the worlds servers, workstations and PCs.” About Intersil
Intersil Corporation is a global semiconductor leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions. Intersil’s product portfolios 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

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