San Jose, CA - May 15, 1999

LDIC Unveils Latest Read/Write MR Pre-Amplifier

LSI Design & Integration Corporation (LDIC), a leading developer of storage mixed-signal products, today introduced the first member of its Performance Series™ LD3500 Read/Write MR Pre-Amplifier with 2, 4 and 8 channel products. These third generation pre-amplifiers provide the fastest products above 500Mb/s data rate for most advanced disk drive manufacturers.

"The LD3500 MR Pre-Amplifier provides the best performance with patented programmable reader gain, bandwidth and thermal asperity detection and correction" said Mr. Mehdi Bathaee. President and Chief Executive Officer. "These products are the result of our partnership with Rohm Semiconductor Corporation in storage product development. Our business model is to develop directly with our customers and use the most advanced technology in production to reduce risk. This approach provides us products that have a home once it passes our qualification activities".

This latest development by LDIC is part of an ongoing commitment to provide Total Solution™ to mass storage companies including read channel integrated circuit (IC), HDD controller, and VCM/Spindle products.

Pricing and availability
Samples of the LD3500 MR Pre-Amplifiers are available in 30 and 38-pin TSSOP, 48-pin TQFP and flip-chip. LDIC can provide flip-chip pre-amps on flex and fully tested products or users.Product prices will be revealed to customers directly.

Company Information
LDIC is a leading developer of proprietary Integrated Circuits for Mass Storage of Hard Disk Drive, Imaging 2.12Gb/S Fiber Channel, Fast 2.5Gb/S Ethernet, 10Gb/s PHY, level-2 switch Communication products. Its architecture, and technology provide the users with increased data rate with lowest power dissipation of mass storage, server, desktop, communication, Imaging portable products. LDIC also is a provider of Integrated Circuits for NAS/SAN. The company is headquartered at 2081 Forest Ave. San Jose, Calif., 95128, phone 408-283-8540, fax 408-283-8544, http://www.ldic.com.