Intrinsix Adds Board Member

WESTBORO, Mass.----July 17, 2000--Intrinsix Corp., the largest U.S.-based, independent ASIC and System (SoC) design services company, today announced that it has named Robert J. Richardson to the Company's Board of Directors.

Robert Richardson, an electronics industry expert, recently served as Chairman, CEO and President with Unitrode Corporation, a $200 million Power Management Semiconductor Manufacturer. He has also served as a senior management consultant for SRI International and Arthur D. Little, Inc., as well as being a current Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Richardson holds a B.S.E.E. degree in Computer Design from St. Louis University and a M.B.A. degree in Marketing/Finance from Southern Illinois University.

About Intrinsix

Intrinsix Corp. is the leading independent provider of engineering design services for ASIC and high-integration embedded systems. The company, founded in 1986, has long been a pioneer in the successful implementation of cutting edge ASIC designs. Intrinsix provides comprehensive ASIC and SoC architecting, design, simulation, synthesis, verification and test services to leading electronics companies that have devices produced by semiconductor vendors such as Texas Instruments, IBM, Lucent, Atmel, LSI, Philips/VLSI, Infineon, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu and Samsung among others. The company's lengthy list of successful customers and partners attests to the top-notch quality of its engineering and results-oriented teamwork.

Intrinsix Corp. headquarters are located at 33 Lyman Street, Westboro, MA 01581, Tel: 508/836-4100; Fax: 508/836-4222, www.intrinsix.com.

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