Vitesse NexSAS(TM) Storage IC Solutions to Power HP Storage Subsystems.CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets:VTSS VTSS Vehicle Theft Security System VTSS Vancouver Technical Secondary School ), a leader in enterprise storage ICs, today announced that its Serial Attached SCSI See SAS. (SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. ) storage technology will power the storage subsystems in the new HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks is an HP Portfolio of storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking , archiving, and storage software. The product line up includes: Disk arrays "We are very pleased to be engaged with a customer as technology savvy as HP," said Tim Hornback, vice president and general manager, Storage Products Division, Vitesse. "As front runners in enterprise storage and storage networking, Vitesse and HP bring tremendous credibility to SAS as the coming storage technology of choice for both small and medium business and the enterprise." Vitesse's NexSAS family of end-to-end SAS solutions are based on a common software and hardware architecture allowing OEMs to easily scale designs across port densities, functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. , and applications while leveraging existing software and firmware. This architectural flexibility provides OEMs with accelerated time-to-market and maximized time-in-market through reuse of designs and firmware/software. Targeted at both enterprise server and storage enclosure applications, Vitesse delivers all of the features needed to build enterprise storage solutions that leverage both SAS and Serial ATA (SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. ) technology today. "Through our collaboration to develop industry standards for SAS solutions, we've accelerated our time-to-market by leveraging the common architecture of Vitesse's SAS IC solutions across multiple HP storage designs," said Curt Belusar, director of product development, Storage, Networks and Infrastructure, HP. "Through an innovative combination of its enterprise storage expertise developed in Fibre Channel and its superior I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , Vitesse is delivering a truly unique product offering to the SAS market." About the Storage Products Division For over two decades, the Storage Products Division at Vitesse has delivered state-of-the-art IC solutions for enterprise storage and storage networking applications. With emphasis on the development of advanced disk array intelligence, high-performance interconnect and enclosure management devices for Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA), the Vitesse portfolio is the most robust market offering for enterprise applications. As the world leader in enterprise storage ICs, Vitesse components are used in a wide array of products from industry leading OEMs, including: Brocade, Dell Computer, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Emulex, HP, Hitachi, Ltd., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Storage, Sun Microsystems, and others. About Vitesse Vitesse is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative silicon solutions and devices used in networking, communications, and storage industries worldwide. Vitesse works to specifically address the requirements of system designers and OEMs by providing high-performance, integrated products that are ideally suited for use in Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com. Vitesse is a registered trademark and NexSAS is a trademark in the United States and/or other jurisdictions of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective holders. Note to editors: More information about the Vitesse NexSAS[TM] portfolio is available at www.vitesse.com/sas Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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Factors that could cause actual results to differ are identified in the public filings made by Vitesse with the Securities and Exchange Commission and include the fact that we have disclosed that you should not rely upon our published financial statements and the fact that we have not filed all of our reports required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. More information on factors that could affect our business and financial results are included in our public filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on the web site of the Securities and Exchange Commission, www.sec.gov. The forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are, in some cases, beyond our control. We caution investors that any forward-looking statements made by us are not guarantees of future performance. 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