LSI Logic First to Demonstrate 100,000+ I/O Per Second Performance With a Single-Chip Ultra320 SCSI Controller

Fusion-MPT(TM) Based LSI53C1030 Controller and Maxtor Atlas 10K III-U320 Hard Drives Set New Industry Standard for Ultra320 SCSI Performance Throughput

MILPITAS, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a dramatic demonstration of Ultra320 SCSI performance and market leadership, LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI - News) today announced that its LSI53C1030 controller enabled more than 102,000 input/output (I/O) operations per second using 14 Maxtor® Atlas(TM) 10K III-U320 hard disk drives in a two-way Pentium® 4 Xeon(TM) workstation with processors running at 2.2 GHz. This improves the previous Ultra160 SCSI standard by more than 80 percent and dramatically highlights the performance benefits of the new Ultra320 SCSI interface specification.

First to full production of Ultra320 SCSI controllers, LSI Logic is now shipping to OEMs, Value Added Resellers (VARs), system integrators and the industry's distribution channel suppliers, a full line of Fusion-MPT based Ultra320 controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs). Maxtor is the first company to ship a 10K RPM Ultra320 SCSI hard disk drive.

"Two years ago, the publicized goal for Ultra320 performance was 52,000 I/Os per second for small block sequential I/Os. We've now demonstrated in our labs more than 64,600 I/Os per second on a single channel, and demonstrated more than 102,000 I/Os per second with the 14 Maxtor Atlas 10K III-U320 drives (seven drives on each SCSI channel) running Intel's Iometer under Windows 2000 Advanced Server," said David Steele, director of product planning and management for LSI Logic's storage standard products division.

"This LSI Logic demonstration is another proof point that Ultra320 SCSI provides the highest data bus bandwidth to date and is designed to handle the most demanding, high throughput enterprise server applications," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing for Maxtor's Server Products Group. "The combination of our Atlas 10K III-U320 SCSI drives with LSI Logic's industry leading controllers allows enterprise customers to have access to faster, more reliable data transfer rates for optimal use in multimedia video and audio streaming, data warehousing applications, web servers and RAID applications."

The single-channel LSI53C1020 controller and dual-channel LSI53C1030 controller use LSI Logic's Fusion-MPT architecture to achieve the Ultra320 SCSI performance specifications. This advanced architecture not only provides the horsepower for industry leading performance of the LSI53C1020 and LSI53C1030, but also makes it possible for LSI Logic to introduce and add valuable new features such as LSI Logic's optional Integrated Mirroring(TM) capability, which provides fault tolerance at Ultra320 SCSI performance without the cost of a full-blown RAID controller.

LSI Logic supplies ICs, host bus adapters, RAID storage adapters and bus expanders to the channel at competitive price points worldwide with distribution through partners such Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Bell Micro products, and Insight Electronics.

About the Fusion-MPT architecture

LSI Logic introduced Fusion-MPT architecture in June 2000 to deliver the highest levels of I/O performance while providing a versatile message-passing interface that allows for flexible value-added applications. The architecture, based on industry standard ARM® processor technology, has the unique feature of having the same device driver that supports both Ultra320 SCSI and Fibre Channel, eliminating the need to develop, install and qualify separate device drivers for each physical interface. LSI Logic considers its Fusion-MPT architecture to be the fastest, most efficient and versatile architecture implemented in high performance I/O controllers today. The architecture will be applied to emerging interface technology such as Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA as products evolve.

About Maxtor

Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of information storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, network storage, high-performance Intel-based servers and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation of being a proven market leader by providing consistent high-quality products, service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free 800-2-MAXTOR. Maxtor is traded on the NYSE under the MXO symbol.

This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking statements concerning future technology, products incorporating that technology, and Maxtor's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's results, including, but not limited to, market demand for hard disk drives, the company's ability to execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products. These and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2001 and its recent 10-Qs.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage 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 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, 866-574-5741 (within U.S.), 408-954-3108 (outside U.S.), http://www.lsilogic.com .

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