FREMONT, Calif. - Nov. 10, 1999 -- Forward Concepts, an independent market research firm based in Tempe, Arizona, confirmed today that Cirrus Logic Inc. (NASDAQ:CRUS) is the world's largest supplier of CD-RW encoder/decoder chips with more than 35-percent of the market.

"It should come as no surprise that Cirrus Logic has emerged as the world's largest merchant supplier of CD-RW encoder/decoder chips," said Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts. "Cirrus Logic is widely acknowledged as a storage solution innovator. The company was the first to bring PRML to the desktop hard disk drive market and the first to introduce an ATAPI interface CD-ROM solution. And once again it has applied the right technology at the right time to obtain a significant share of the rapidly growing CD-RW market." Strauss expects this growth to be driven largely by the popularity of downloading content from the Internet.

"We see the CD-RW drive market as a significant growth opportunity for us, and we are focused on expanding our leadership position," said Robert Dickinson, vice president and general manager of Cirrus Logic's Optical Storage Division. "Forward Concept's confirmation of our market position highlights the acceptance of our CD-RW encoder/decoder family, which has enabled our customers to achieve industry leading write speeds -- the primary differentiator in this market."

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Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-performance analog circuits and advanced mixed-signal chip solutions. The company's products, sold under its own name and the Crystal product brand, enable system-level applications in mass storage, audio and precision data conversion. Additional information about Cirrus Logic is available at www.cirrus.com.

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