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29 February 1996

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and Hitachi, Ltd. announced today a license agreement for Hitachi's 16-bit microprocessor H8/300H core. ADI also has the option of licensing Hitachi's next generation H8S/ 2000 core. The agreement creates a strong partnership between the two companies in the area of wireless communications.

H8/300H is one of Hitachi's H8 Series of 16-bit CPUs, featuring high-speed operation and low power consumption, and it is widely used as a de facto standard controller, especially for wireless communications. The H8S/2000 Series is the next generation 16-bit CPU series announced on September 18, 1995, and is upward-compatible with the H8/300H, featuring an enhanced RISC-like architecture that completes basic instructions in one clock cycle, 50 ns with a 20 MHz clock.

With fiscal 1995 revenues of $942 million, Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 6,300 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan.

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