As a result of this immediately accretive cash transaction, LSI Logic

acquired AMI’s MegaRAID software intellectual property and host bus adapter

product family. These boards support Fibre Channel, SCSI and other leading

storage I/O standards. LSI Logic is also gaining the expertise of AMI’s more

than 200 RAID employees, including 120 hardware and software engineers based

in Norcross, Georgia, Fremont, California and other sales service locations.

We employ strategic acquisitions to enhance our intellectual property

portfolio and to bolster our engineering corps, said Bryon Look, LSI Logic

executive vice president and chief financial officer. The purchase of AMI’s

RAID business is the latest example of how LSI Logic uses strategic

cquisitions to better serve customers in our targeted vertical markets.

John D’Errico, LSI Logic executive vice president for Storage Components,

said that LSI Logic would strengthen and extend its storage components

offerings with AMI’s leading MegaRAID technology.

As a result of the combination of AMI’s MegaRAID products with LSI

Logic’s expertise in Fibre Channel, SCSI and other leading storage I/O

channels, we will offer next-generation storage component products for our

customer base that includes: Agilent, Brocade, Compaq, Dell, EMC,

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Seagate and Sun Microsystems, said D’Errico.

There is a direct correlation between the rapid growth of data, voice and

video conveyed by the Internet and the expansion of the global storage

components market, said D’Errico. RAID is an ubiquitous technology in the

worldwide server market, and the MegaRAID product family provides the most

widely used and proven solutions to LSI Logic, enabling us to provide complete

storage interface solutions for our customers in the storage market.