LSI Names New Fellows

LSI Fellows Bring Extensive Engineering Expertise in Storage and Consumer Technologies

 

MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 1, 2006 - LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced the appointment of two new Fellows. Both recently joined LSI and bring more than 20 combined years of experience in the development of consumer and storage solutions.

The LSI Fellows position recognizes the highest level of engineering achievement and leadership within the company's engineering organization.  

"The LSI Fellows represent some of the industry's most distinguished technical leaders," said Bob Payne, chief technology officer, LSI Logic. "Their deep technical knowledge is helping us expand our position as the leading provider of silicon-to-systems solutions for the storage and consumer markets."

LSI Fellows are appointed based on criteria measuring accomplishments in the invention of world-class technical solutions, leadership in the creation and development of industry standards, and academic achievement.

The new appointees add their technical experience to the existing team of five LSI Fellows. Collectively they hold nearly 200 patents, three doctorates and eight master's degrees.

Marcel Tromp

Marcel Tromp, 37, is appointed Fellow, Consumer Products Group. Tromp has extensive experience in architecting and managing complex SoC (system on chip) designs. He will be responsible for architecture and technology direction in the LSI Consumer Products Group. He is based in Milpitas, California.

Tromp joined LSI from Pixelworks, where, as vice president of engineering, he was responsible for media processor design and processor system architecture. Prior to Pixelworks, Marcel was chief architect and later vice president of engineering at Equator Technologies where he was responsible for all hardware, software, systems design as well as operations.

Tromp is a patent holder. He earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Dr. Andrei E. Vityaev

Dr. Andrei Vityaev, 35, is appointed Fellow. Vityaev joined LSI from Broadcom Corporation, where he directed read channel engineering and development of key technologies such as 65nm architectures. He continues to focus on these areas at LSI as chief architect of the company's Read Channel project. He is based in Milpitas, California.

Vityaev holds eight patents. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Novosibirsk University in Russia.

About LSI Logic

LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of silicon-to-systems solutions that are used at the core of products that create, store and consume digital information. LSI offers a broad portfolio of capabilities including custom and standard product ICs, host bus and RAID adapters, storage area network solutions and software applications. LSI products enable leading technology companies in the Storage and Consumer markets to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today. More information is available at www.lsi.com.

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