Lattice Semiconductor and Avnet Announce Expanded Franchise Agreement for North America and Europe

HILLSBORO, Ore. - February 10, 2000 - Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), and Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) today announced an expanded franchise agreement by which Avnet Electronics Marketing will distribute Lattice Semiconductor's full line of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including the world's leading in-system programmable logic ispLSI^® and ispMACH^TM products. Also included are in-system programmable analog circuits (ispPAC^TM) and design tools supporting all product families throughout North America and Europe. Avnet becomes the first distributor to carry the Lattice Semiconductor and recently acquired Vantis Corporation's products throughout North America and Europe.

"Avnet Electronics marketing has established a position as a top-flight distributor with our mutual customers worldwide," said Steven A. Laub, Lattice Semiconductor's Chief Operating Officer. "Avnet is already the largest distributor for Lattice products. This agreement will further deepen our relationship and allow us to provide new levels of product support and service to our North American and European customers."

"Lattice Semiconductor has been a pioneer and leader in programmable logic technology and a preferred supplier for our customers," said Brian Hilton, Co-President of Avnet Electronics Marketing. "We are very excited about expanding our partnership with Lattice. Their in-system programmable product offering, combined with Avnet's inventory strength, superior customer service and delivery, will ultimately allow our customers to develop and deliver their products to the market in the shortest time possible."

About Lattice Semiconductor

Oregon-based Lattice Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets the broadest range of high-performance ISP^TM programmable logic devices (PLDs) and offers total solutions for today's advanced logic designs. Lattice introduced in-system programmability to the logic industry in 1992. In June 1999, Lattice acquired Vantis, the corporation that invented the PAL^® device and PLD switch matrix architecture, from AMD. With nearly double the R&D and sales resources, the resulting integrated company focuses on delivering logic products that satisfy the performance, density and ease-of-use requirements of its customers.

Lattice products are sold worldwide through an extensive network of independent sales representatives and distributors, primarily to OEM customers in the fields of communications, computing, computer peripherals, instrumentation, industrial controls and military systems. Company headquarters are located at 5555 NE Moore Court, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 USA; Telephone 503-268-8000, FAX 503-268-8037. For more information on Lattice Semiconductor Corporation access our World Wide Web site at http://www.latticesemi.com.

About Avnet

Phoenix, Arizona-based Avnet, Inc., a Fortune 300 company with annual sales exceeding $6.4 billion ($9 billion pro forma including acquisitions), is one of the world's largest distributors of semiconductor, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components and computer products from leading manufacturers. Serving customers in 60 countries, Avnet markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides an industry leading suite of value-added services. Avnet's Web site is located at http://www.avnet.com.

Statements in this news release looking forward in time are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including the effect of changing economic conditions, the effect of overall semiconductor market conditions, product demand and market acceptance risks, risks associated with dependencies on silicon wafer suppliers, the impact of competitive products and pricing, technological and product development risks and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Actual results may differ materially from forward-looking statements.

Lattice Semiconductor, L (stylized) Lattice, ispLSI, ISP, in-system programmable, ispMACH and ispPAC are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other marks are the property of their respective holders.
Vantis, the Vantis logo and PAL are trademarks of Vantis Corporation.
Avnet is a trademark of Avnet, Inc.

GENERAL NOTICE: Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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