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Company Name: LSI Logic Corp.

Company Type: Designing and manufacturing of communications

Company Profile

At LSI Logic Corporation we provide products that change the way people around the globe create, store, and consume digital information. Our silicon-to-systems solutions for leading technology companies in the storage and consumer markets, enables them to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today.

For 25 years LSI has been an innovator, creating technology that changes the way people work and live. We have unparalleled scale for the storage and consumer markets, where we have the unique capability to deliver the breadth and depth of solutions from custom silicon to complete systems. From actively participating in creating and delivering the world’s first SCSI chip, to being the first-to-market with SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), to leading industry adoption of 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage arrays, LSI is the bellwether for leadership in storage technology. For the consumer market, we enable products in the Digital Home-DVD recorders, portable media players, set-top boxes (STB), and high definition products-as well as equipment for professional video production and broadcasting. Recently we introduced a new application processor architecture (ZEVIO™) to address low-power consumer appliances. And the future holds a wealth of opportunity for more innovation.

About Company

Founded in 1981, LSI Logic has become the leading supplier of technology that goes into top-of-the-line storage and consumer products. Today we lead in the SAS controller IC market, as well as 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel OEM storage systems. Our 8.5 Gb/s serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver core for OEM storage and SAN infrastructure applications marks another industry milestone. In 2005, the LSI MegaRAID® Ultra320 PCI Express RAID adapter received the Editor’s Choice Award from China Information World (CIW) magazine.

LSI is the leader in the DVD recorder market. At the end of 2005, our DoMiNo® products were in 45 percent of the 14 million DVD recorders on the market. - a market that is expected to grow to 22-25 million units in 2006. The DoMiNo architecture has earned several top industry awards: Leading Product, EDN China (2005); Hot 100 Products of 2005, EDN; Hot 100 Products of 2004, EDN; and Product of the Month, eeProductCenter (2004).

We've earned two Emmy Awards for our innovations in graphics chips, and in 2005, Electronic Business named LSI one of the ten most significant companies for having the greatest impact on the size, shape and character of today’s electronics industry.

In 2006, we became the third largest fabless semiconductor company in the world. LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) maintains operations worldwide. Headquarters is located in the United States in Milpitas, California.