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PCI-SIG Announces New Board of Directors

Leading Computing and Communication Firms
Comprise Group Leadership

Portland, OR - July 1, 2003 - The PCI-SIG™, the Special Interest Group responsible for PCI Express™, PCI-X™, and PCI™ Conventional industry-standard I/O technologies, has elected a new board of directors to lead the 800+ member industry association. The elected directors are responsible for the direction of the PCI-SIG and its technologies. The new board is comprised of industry-leading companies in the computing and communications arenas.

Individual board members are as follows: Dale Gulick, Advanced Micro Devices; Mike Krause, Hewlett-Packard; Al Yanes, IBM; Ramin Neshati, Intel Corporation; Richard Solomon, LSI Logic; Tony Pierce, Microsoft Corporation; Gary Simpson, Phoenix Technologies; David Dorrough, ServerWorks Corporation; Kevin Main, Texas Instruments. The board also named the following officers: Tony Pierce as chairman and vice president, Al Yanes as president, David Dorrough as treasurer and Dale Gulick as secretary.

"The PCI-SIG is a central industry site for technology innovation that touches the heart of every computing and communications device," said Tony Pierce, PCI-SIG Chairman. "The new board of directors brings a wealth of expertise to the management of the PCI-SIG. With a number of member company products based on the latest PCI-X and PCI Express technologies scheduled to be released in the marketplace in 2004, the next year will prove to be exciting for the (PCI-SIG) and its members."

"With LSI Logic joining the PCI-SIG board of directors, our organization continues on its promise of electing leadership from a broad scope of the industry," said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President. "We welcome LSI Logic's participation in leading the SIG into new territory this year with the launch of multiple PCI-SIG technologies to the market."

Benefits of PCI-SIG Membership
All PCI-SIG members can participate in the election of the board of directors. If you are interested in becoming a member, please visit the PCI-SIG web site at http://www.pcisig.com/membership/. PCI-SIG members develop and maintain PCI-SIG specifications and are actively involved in defining compliance criteria and checklists, as well as other technical enabling collateral.

About the PCI-SIG

The PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992, and the organization became a nonprofit corporation, officially named "PCI-SIG" in the year 2000. Currently, more than 860 industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members worldwide. The PCI-SIG's current directors are employed by the following PCI-SIG member companies: AMD, Broadcom, HP, IBM, Intel, LSI Logic, Microsoft, Phoenix Technologies, and Texas Instruments. For more information about the PCI-SIG, and PCI-SIG membership benefits, contact the PCI-SIG by phone, at (503) 291-2569 (within the United States), or by fax at (503) 297-1090, or visit the PCI-SIG web site at http://www.pcisig.com.

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