LeWiz Communications Announces Full Range of Enterprise Linux OS and iSCSI Support for Its Magic2020™ TOE Card


San Jose, CA (June 07, 2005)– LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, announces immediate availability of a full range of enterprise class Linux OS and iSCSI storage stack support for its Magic2020™ TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) HBA. A range of 32 and 64 bit Linux OS from Redhat 9 to Redhat Enterprise AS 4.0, to SUSE Linux Enterprise 9.0 is now available for the Magic2020™ HBA. In addition, Linux’s iSCSI Enterprise Target and Initiator software stack have also been tested and available with LeWiz’s Magic2020™ HBA. These software also work with the Magic2020™ HBA on both AMD Opteron and Intel processor based systems.

Table 1: Linux OS and Magic2020™ HBA available across platforms
( ---- = not applicable)

Linux OS

AMD Operon (32 bit)

AMD Opteron (64 bit)

Intel Xeon (32bit)

Intel EM64T Architecture

Redhat AS 4.0 – 32 bit

Now

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Now

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Redhat AS 4.0 – 64 bit

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Now

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7/05

Novell SUSE LES 9.0 – 32 bit

Now

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Now

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Novell SUSE LES 9.0 – 64 bit

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Now

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7/05

Redhat 9.0 – 32 bit
(and other Linux 2.4 Kernels)

Now

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Now

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“Previously, LeWiz proved its TOE performance is the best in the industry. Today, it’s making such performance available across multiple platforms with a full range of Linux operating systems and iSCSI application for the server and storage markets. Meeting our customer requests, giving them the best for their applications, and enabling them to move to enterprise class with ease – we aim to make our customers successful.” said Chinh Le, LeWiz’s CEO.

LeWiz will be showing its Magic2020™ HBA and other new products at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005,

About LeWiz Communications

LeWiz is the world’s leading supplier of hardware-based, multi-port TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) chip and board solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz chips are designed to optimize board space, system efficiency and data delivery in servers, blade servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company’s Web site at http:// www.lewiz.com.

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