Exar Appoints Veteran Technologist

FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced that Carlos A. Laber has joined the Company as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Research and Development. Mr. Laber will report to Louis DiNardo, the Company's president and chief executive officer.

"Carlos brings a wealth of engineering leadership that spans all aspects of semiconductor development and process technology," said Mr. DiNardo. "He has a proven record of execution and a demonstrated ability to build strong and successful engineering teams.  Carlos will play a pivotal role in furthering the execution of our plan to scale and align our workforce with our market focus on power management and analog mixed-signal components, significantly reduce expenses, and improve operational efficiency."

Mr. Laber has over 30 years of experience in analog and mixed-signal technology and product development. Most recently he served as Senior Director of product development at ON Semiconductor and led the power management design effort in Santa Clara, California. He previously served as Intersil's Vice President of Worldwide Technology. He joined Intersil after the acquisition of Xicor, Incorporated, where he served as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Laber came to Xicor from Micrel Semiconductor where he was the Vice President of Engineering for the Analog and RF Product group. Prior to Micrel, Mr. Laber served at Micro Linear, where he was a founder, and at National Semiconductor and Intel Corporation where he had increasingly more senior design engineering and management roles. Mr. Laber holds a BSEE degree in Electromechanical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and an MSEE degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

"I welcome the opportunity to play a key role in the development of Exar's technology and new products," said Carlos Laber. "Having worked with members of this team will enable us to move forward quickly with the process technology alignment and execution in development."

About Exar

Exar Corporation designs, develops and markets high performance analog mixed-signal integrated circuits and advanced sub-system solutions for data communication, networking, storage, consumer and industrial applications.  Exar's product portfolio includes power management and connectivity components, communications products and storage optimization, security and accelerations solutions. Exar has locations worldwide providing real-time customer support to drive rapid product development. For more information about Exar, visit: http://www.exar.com.

SOURCE Exar Corporation

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