VTech's 3D Edutainment System Powered by LSI Logic Makes Learning Fun

LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announces that VTech's V.Flash Home Edutainment System is the first consumer electronics product to utilize its recently announced ZEVIO(TM) application processor architecture. The ZEVIO architecture and 3D graphics technology, co-developed with KOTO Co., LTD., are enabling VTech Electronics to offer a home edutainment system that allows children the ability to learn as they play in a dynamic and interactive 3D-gaming environment. VTech is one of the world's leading suppliers of electronic learning products including its popular V.Smile TV Learning System. Koto is a leading manufacturer of unique entertainment devices and their related technologies.

"With expertise in their respective technologies, LSI Logic and KOTO are effective partners who are providing us with a complete solution -- including development systems, hardware and software support -- to meet the requirements of V.Flash," said Julia Fitzgerald, vice president of Marketing, VTech Electronics North America, LLC. "The result is a unique, 3D home edutainment system that we believe will be very successful this holiday season."

With the LSI ZEVIO platform, VTech is able to offer a unique TV-based learning system for less than $100. Combining video gaming, CD playing and 3D graphic visual entertainment into a compact, stylish console, VTech's V.Flash creates a dynamic and exciting interactive learning experience. V.Flash is expected to be available in the fall of 2006, with six licensed game titles that will be sold separately.

"At CES in January, we announced plans to expand into the digital consumer appliances market with our ZEVIO architecture. VTech's V.Flash Home Edutainment System validates the benefits of the ZEVIO architecture for next- generation consumer devices," said Tim Vehling, vice president of marketing, Consumer Products Group, LSI Logic. "Innovative products like V.Flash showcase the cost-effective 3D graphics capabilities that we co-developed with KOTO."

Building on its substantial consumer standard product and custom solutions knowledge, LSI created the ZEVIO architecture to enable the optimal price- power-performance balance for digital consumer appliances such as GPS navigation systems, electronic toys, edutainment applications, and personal media players. By providing development support tools and pre-verified, consumer-specific IP for companies like VTech, the ZEVIO architecture reduces design complexity and time to market. KOTO, developer of the WonderSwan handheld gaming system in Japan, collaborated on the creation of the ZEVIO 3D graphics technology to reduce complexity and help fuel demand for 3D features in a variety of consumer electronics products.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation is a leading provider of silicon-to-system solutions that are used at the core of products that create, move and store 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 Consumer, Communications and Storage markets to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today. More information is available at http://www.lsi.com.

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