MILPITAS, Calif. -- Intersil Corporation (Nasdaq:ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions, today announced that SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK), the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, has designed Intersil's PRISM(R) Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) chip sets into the new SanDisk Connect(TM) product line of dual function CompactFlash(R) (CF) and Secure Digital (SD) cards that skillfully combine both flash memory and 802.11b cards wireless communications technology. "The combination of SanDisk's flash data storage products and Intersil's wireless networking technology will enable a new generation of wireless connectivity in notebooks, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players and other small handheld networking appliances," said Larry Ciaccia, vice president and general manager of Intersil's Wireless Networking Product Group. These products are indicative of the many new innovative products that are being developed around the PRISM 802.11-based solutions, as well as Wi-Fi's continuous momentum into mainstream applications. This combination, of the leader in flash data storage with the leader in WLAN, has resulted in a very exciting product." The SanDisk Connect product line includes four products -- dual-function 128-megabyte (MB) CompactFlash and 256MB SD cards that combine Wi-Fi and flash memory, as well as single-function CF and SD cards with Wi-Fi connectivity. SanDisk plans to add 256MB cards to the CF Connect product line by the middle of 2003. SanDisk Corp. Intersil Corp.