LSI Logic Increases Support for European, French Canadian And Latin American Customers With Multi-Language Documentation

MILPITAS, Calif., July 19, 2004 LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced it has increased channel support for partners and customers in Europe, Canada and Latin America with the release of product documentation in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese languages.

"In the past year, LSI Logic has more than doubled its channel market share in North America and has moved this year to focus all required energies and efforts to support Europe and the Americas, said Kerry Reid, senior director, worldwide channel sales, LSI Logic. As part of our continuing support of customers worldwide, LSI Logic has translated its manuals, key new product documentation and quick installation instructions for the European and Latin American communities.

Multi-language documentation now available includes:

    MegaRAID320 and SATA user guides (French and German)
    MegaRAID device driver installation guide (French and German)
    Quick hardware setup guides for the MegaRAID 320-0, 320-1, 320-2, 320-2X. 320-4X and the MegaRAID SATA 150-4 and 150-6 (French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish)

The above documents can be accessed on LSI Logics web site at http://www.lsilogic.com/documentation/.

Next quarter, LSI Logic will incorporate additional multi-lingual documentation for the following products:

    Installation guides for Ultra320 SCSI and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs: LSI20320R, LSI21320R, LSI7102XP-LC and LSI7202XP-LC (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
    Users guides for Ultra320 SCSI HBAs, 2Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs, MyStorageTM Management Software and Fusion-MPT device management (French and German)

By combining our concentrated focus on positively serving our European and Americas markets with the best Fibre Channel and SCSI HBAs as well as RAID controllers, we believe that we can enable increased success for storage solution providers, said Joe Leader, senior director of channel marketing and business development, LSI Logic. Our storage adapter products combine lower pricing with superior features so that our customers receive greater value in every LSI Logic controller purchased. This will allow our customer base in Europe and throughout the Americas to enjoy the lower prices and superior performance used by 85 percent of the world's major OEMs.

Enhanced Channel Support Worldwide

Continuing with the enhancement of services and partnerships to channel customers worldwide, this announcement complements the recent roll-outs of LSI Logics advance replacement program, enhanced technical support service and channel partner program. Full details of these earlier releases can be found at http://www.lsilogic.com/news/news_archives.html.

LSI Logic provides storage products to OEMs worldwide, and to the channel through its distribution partners. A full listing of International partners can be found at http://www.lsilogic.com/contacts.

Resellers interested in LSI Logic as a partner should visit http://lsilogic.com/reseller for information on products and programs.

LSI Logic storage products: http://lsilogic.com/storage

LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading designer and manufacturer of storage, communications, and consumer semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1621 Barber Lane, Milpitas, California 95035. http://www.lsilogic.com.