ISSI (MM)

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISSI) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Scott Howarth as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Howarth has served as ISSI's President and Chief Financial Officer since December 1, 2007, and as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer since February 2006. Mr. Howarth will continue to act as the Chief Financial Officer until a replacement is found. The company is currently undertaking an active CFO search. Jimmy Lee, who has been ISSI's Chief Executive Officer since he founded ISSI in 1988, will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of the Board. In this role, Mr. Lee will focus on longer-term strategy and also help in the transition of Mr. Howarth into his new role while working reduced hours. "Scott has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and is well versed with ISSI's operations. He has been a key member of the executive team and has contributed significantly to the Company's renewed business focus and return to profitability in the last two years," said Mr. Lee, "We are delighted to announce the appointment and promotion of Scott to the role of Chief Executive Officer." Mr. Howarth stated: "I am excited to have this opportunity to lead ISSI and extend the company's momentum from the last two years. I believe ISSI has made strong progress, has the right strategy, and has significant opportunities for the future. I look forward to this new challenge and working with our customers and employees to execute our strategy." Mr. Howarth has over 23 years of industry experience having served as Chief Financial Officer at Chrontel from 2001 to February 2006, Chief Financial Officer at Scout Electromedia from 2000 to 2001, and with Intel Corporation from 1984 to 2000. A graduate from the University of Idaho, Mr. Howarth holds an MBA degree in Finance and a B.S. degree in Mining Engineering. About the Company ISSI is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high performance integrated circuits for the following key markets: (i) digital consumer electronics, (ii) networking, (iii) mobile communications and (iv) automotive electronics. The Company's primary products are high speed and low power SRAM and low and medium density DRAM. The Company also designs and markets EEPROM, SmartCards and is developing selected non-memory products focused on its key markets. ISSI is headquartered in Silicon Valley with worldwide offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. Visit our web site at http://www.issi.com/. Cautionary Statement The statements in this release relating to our momentum, strong progress, right strategy, and significant opportunities for the future are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to: supply and demand conditions in the market place, unexpected reductions in average selling prices for our products, our ability to sell our products for key applications and the pricing and gross margins achieved on such sales, our ability to control or reduce operating expenses, changes in manufacturing yields, order cancellations, order rescheduling, product warranty claims, competition, the level and value of inventory held by OEM customers, or other factors. For a detailed discussion of these and other risk factors, please refer to ISSI's filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. You can obtain copies of Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other relevant documents for free at ISSI's Web site (http://www.issi.com/) or the SEC's Web site (http://www.sec.gov/) or from commercial document retrieval services. Stockholders of ISSI are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. ISSI does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or new information after the date of this press release, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. DATASOURCE: Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. CONTACT: Investor Relations, Scott Howarth, CEO and President, Acting CFO of Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc., +1-408-969-6600, Web site: http://www.issi.com/

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