Corporate Profile for Standard Microsystems, dated June 6, 1997.

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Published Date:   June 6, 1997

Company Name:     Standard Microsystems Corp.

Address:          80 Arkay Drive
                  Hauppauge, NY 11788

Main Telephone
 Number:          516/435-6000

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.smc.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Paul Richman

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Eric Nowling

Investor Relations
 Contact:         John Tweedy
 Business number: 516/434-4630

Public Relations
 Contact:         Claudine M. Martini
 Business number: 516/435-6893
 Home number:     516/781-8124

Trading Symbol/
 Exchange:        SMSC/NASDAQ

Industry:         Networking

Company description: Standard Microsystems Corporation (NASDAQ: SMSC) is based in Hauppauge, N.Y., and has offices worldwide including locations in North America, Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe and Japan. SMC's System Products Division provides a broad range of networking solutions for scaling, managing and connecting local area networks including LAN switches, hubs, network cards and network management software. SMC's Component Products Division supplies very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) circuits for personal computers and embedded control systems, and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). The company has annual sales of over $300 million and an installed base of over 12 million nodes. Contact SMC by calling 1-800-SMC-4-YOU in the U.S. and Canada, or 516/435-6000 elsewhere, or visit SMC's World Wide Web Page at http://www.smc.com/

CONTACT: Standard Microsystems Corp.