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MILPITAS, CA -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced full production volumes for its single, dual and quad board Fibre Channel 2 Gbit host adapters. The LSI44929 is the industry's only dual port, Fibre Channel host bus adapter available in a low profile form factor. With this release, LSI Logic reportedly sets the industry performance standard for production 2 Gbit host bus adapters. "These Fibre Channel boards deliver a reliable, high performance solution for clustered environments, SANs and workstations," said Bob Anderson, director for LSI Logic's Host Adapter business. "We've hit over 72,000 I/Os per second with small block reads using two channels. That's a real performance edge." With over ten years of Fibre Channel experience, LSI Logic offers an industry-leading product line that's price-efficient, scalaable and proven. The LSI Logic GigaBlaze(TM) core technology is reportedly recognized as an industry standard for performance. The LSI Logic quad board is rated at 100,000 I/Os per second. The single channel LSI40919, dual channel LSI44929 and quad ITI7004G2 boards are built using Fusion-MPT(TM) architecture, a common binary software that supports Fibre Channel, SCSI and emerging technology interfaces such as InfiniBand and SerialATA. This eliminates the need to develop, install and qualify separate device drivers and ensures interoperability. The LSI40919 and LSI44929 products are designed in the low profile PCI form factor and are available with the low profile PCI bracket or standard height bracket. Optical and copper interfaces are also available. LSI Logic offers a complete family of Fibre Channel host adapter products for mission critical enterprise applications for all topologies and multiple service classes. Fibre Channel technology is being advanced by industry leaders such as Sun, HP, IBM, and Brocade. The LSI Logic 2 Gbit host bus adapter product family builds on a 10-year history as the dominant supplier of Fibre Channel silicon and demonstrates a continuing commitment to the Fibre Channel market. LSI Logic host bus adapters are also available through distribution channel partners such as Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Insight Electronics, and Arrow Electronics. LSI Logic Fibre Channel host adapters support the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Application Programming Interface (API). API extends the interoperability and manageability of storage networks by providing a standard interface to access information across Fibre Channel networks. LSI Logic is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), T-11 standards committee, SNIA and the FibreAlliance organization. Based on industry standard ARM(R) technology, the LSI Logic 2 Gbit host bus adapter product family incorporates Fusion-MPT architecture, a single binary device driver for SCSI, Fibre Channel and emerging interface technologies such as InfiniBand, and SerialATA. Thinner drivers allow for better and more versatile performance while adding value at the firmware level. Fusion-MPT provides the flexibility and rich feature set to make options like Integrated Mirroring possible for boot volume protection at no additional cost. Fusion-MPT is considered (according to the company) the fastest, most efficient and versatile architecture to yet be implemented in high performance I/O controllers today. For further information visit www.lsilogic.com