Intersil Receives ``Product of the Year'' Awards from analogZONE

Intersil Receives ``Product of the Year'' Awards from analogZONE

    Business Editors/Technology Writers

    MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2005--Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ:ISIL):

--	EL5367 receives "Best Video Op Amp of 2004"
--	ISL60002 receives "Best Advance in Voltage Reference Technology for 2004"

    Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ:ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog solutions, today announced that analogZONE editors bestowed top 2004 Product of the Year honors on two groundbreaking Intersil products. The EL5367 Triple 1GHz Current-Feedback Op Amp received the honor of Best Video Op Amp and the ISL60002 FGA Precision Voltage Reference took first place for Best Advance in Voltage Reference Technology. This follows the 2003 Product of the Year award for the EL5166 and EL5167 1.4GHz Current-Feedback Op Amps.
    The analogZONE is an on-line source for electronics design engineers working in the fields of power management, audio/video, acquisition, connectivity, networking, wireless applications and green engineering. Editor-in-chief, Paul McGoldrick, and other ZONE editors selected the 2004 winners. In analogZONE's press release on the awards, McGoldrick commented that product winners "will have significant bottom line impact for the companies involved because of the strong technical merit, design innovation and marketability of the products."
    "We're very pleased to receive these awards and the recognition for Intersil's innovation in bringing significant new high performance analog solutions to the market," said Simon Prutton, vice president of marketing for Intersil's Analog Signal Processing Products Group. "Both of these parts are industry-leading and join rapidly expanding product portfolios. Both products demonstrate the advanced technology and design expertise that Intersil leverages in its new product development efforts."

    About the EL5367

    Intersil introduced the world's fastest triple amplifier and the first one to break the 1GHz amplifier barrier last October. With a total supply current of just 25mA and the ability to run from a single supply voltage, the EL5367 offers very high performance for extremely little power consumption. It drives resolutions greater than QXGA (2048 pixel x 1536 pixel video graphics standard) at a gain of 2 for very high-speed video and monitor applications.
    "The EL5367 was a world's first for Intersil and joins a strong portfolio of video products that bring high levels of performance to the industry," Prutton said. "Our customers are always working to achieve ever greater resolutions and Intersil, with this and other high performance video amps, is constantly developing new products to meet this need."
    The EL5367 is a current-feedback operational amplifier that offers a wide -3dB bandwidth of 1GHz and a low supply current of 8.5mA per amplifier. The EL5367 works with supply voltages ranging from a single 5V to 12V supply and it is also capable of swinging to within 1V of either supply on the output. This device is ideal for driving high-resolution video. With a gain of 2 and bandwidth of 800MHz on all three channels, this device will easily drive a double-terminated 75ohm cable.

    About the ISL60002

    Intersil announced the ISL60002 series voltage references last fall to bring the precision performance standards previously available only in laboratory equipment to portable and battery-operated systems. The new 1.25V and 2.5V parts are important additions to Intersil's rapidly expanding line of ultra-low power precision voltage references.
    "The ISL60002 series are the first high-precision voltage references that make it practical to leave the reference continuously biased, even in battery-operated circuits," said Prutton. "Band-gap and buried-zener based references from our competitors often burn ten times as much power and still don't offer equivalent accuracy. These parts enable performance previously only achievable by line-powered instrumentation to be reached by battery-powered products for the first time."
    The low, sub-1.5 microwatt power consumption (400nA @ 2.7V(IN)), allows the voltage references to remain powered on continuously by the system battery. By operating the reference continuously biased, 12- to 24-bit battery powered data acquisition circuits (that normally disable the reference between conversions) can now provide the highest accuracy and lowest possible long-term drift by eliminating the effects of initial accuracy changes and time delay as the reference settles to its final value.
    Applications for the ISL60002 series include high resolution A/Ds & D/As, digital meters, bar code scanners, mobile communications, PDAs and notebooks, battery management systems and medical systems.

    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 http://www.intersil.com.
    This release may include "forward-looking statements" that are subject to risks and uncertainties. For information identifying economic, political, climatic, currency, regulatory, technological, competitive and some other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, see Intersil's Safe Harbor Forward-Looking Statement disclaimer found at http://www.intersil.com/legal.asp, as well as Intersil's SEC filings as updated from time to time, found at http://www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Intersil Corporation, Palm Bay, Fla. Ron Paciello, 321-724-7184 E-mail: rpaciell@intersil.com or John Allen, 321-729-4928 E-mail: jallen02@intersil.com

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