Starboard Group Delivers Letter to ISSI CEO and Board Of Directors

Manoj Gujral recently served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband and Consumer Division of Cavium, Inc., a high growth company providing integrated processors for networking, storage, video, and security applications, from April 2010 to June 2012, where he was responsible for Business Strategy, Engineering Execution, Marketing and P&L functions with a focus on Connected Home and Office segments. Mr. Gujral also served on the board of directors of Virage Logic ("Virage"), a then publicly traded leading provider of application optimized intellectual property (IP) platforms, from May 2010 until Virage was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. in September 2010. From 2005 until April 2010, Mr. Gujral served as the General Manager of Platform Business of NVIDIA Corporation ("NVIDIA"), which provides platform solutions for Compute, Workstation, Visualization and Mobile markets. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Gujral served as Managing Director of the Specialty Interconnect Business Unit at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation ("Cypress"), which delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value, where he was responsible for system interconnect products for wireless and handset markets. Prior to Cypress, Mr. Gujral worked in various management roles at Raza Foundries, Inc., ShareWave, Inc. and Unisys, including Vice President and Director of Engineering, respectively. Mr. Gujral received his MSEE from Oregon State University, MBA from San Jose State University and completed the Executive Leadership Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Cathal Phelan currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of a California headquartered start-up company, a position he has held since November 2014. Mr. Phelan also founded his own consulting firm Atticotti LLC ("Atticotti") in April 2013, focusing on business strategies, IP management and systems/semiconductor design. For the year prior to founding Atticotti, he served as the Executive Vice President ("EVP") of the Consumer and Computation Division of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation "Cypress"), a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor design and manufacturing company. In multiple stints with Cypress dating back to 1991, Mr. Phelan held the positions of Chief Technical Officer, EVP of the Data communications Division, EVP of the Personal Communications Division, Sr. Design & Architecture Director, Design Manager and Memory Designer. From May 2006 to September 2008, Mr. Phelan was away from Cypress and served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Ubicom, Inc., a venture capital backed startup focused on building a unique media and communications processor for transporting digital content over the home network. Mr. Phelan worked for six years at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands as a VLSI designer and Member of Technical staff. Mr. Phelan served as a Director of Virage Logic Corporation from March 2006 until it was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. in 2010. He also serves as a Director at Touchstone Semiconductor, Inc. Mr. Phelan holds 38 U.S. patents. Mr. Phelan graduated from the Engineering School of Trinity College at the University of Dublin in Ireland, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Micro-Electronic Engineering and Mathematics in 1984 and subsequently a Masters degree in Micro-Electronic Engineering in 1985.

Clifford Press has been a Managing Member of Oliver Press Partners, LLC, an investment advisory firm and Oliver Press Investors, LLC since March 2005. From 1986 to March 2003, Mr. Press served as a General Partner of Hyde Park Holdings, Inc., a private equity investment firm ("HPH"). From March 2008 to November 2009, Mr. Press served as a director and member of the Governance & Nominating Committee of Coherent Inc., a manufacturer of laser based photonic products. From December 2011 to February 2013, Mr. Press served as a director and member of the Compensation Committee of SeaBright Holdings, Inc., a holding company whose wholly-owned subsidiary, SeaBright Insurance Company, operates as a specialty provider of multi-jurisdictional workers' compensation insurance. Mr. Press received his MA degree from Oxford University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Edward Terino is the President of GET Advisory Service LLC, a strategic and financial management consulting firm focused on the technology and maritime industries, a position he has held since March 2009. Mr. Terino is the founder of Novium Learning, Inc., a start-up, privately-held, post-secondary vocational education publishing company, which he founded in January 2011. Mr. Terino currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baltic Trading Ltd., an international dry bulk shipping company, a position he has held since March 2010, where he is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Since July 2010, Mr. Terino has served as a director of SeaChange International Inc., a digital video software company, where he is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. From October 2012 through November 2013, Mr. Terino served as a director of Extreme Networks, Inc., a network switching and services company, where he was a member of the Audit Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Terino served as a director of S1 Corporation, an internet banking and payments software company, from April 2007 until February 2012, when S1 Corporation was acquired by ACI Worldwide Inc. While at S1 Corporation, Mr. Terino served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Terino also served as a director of Phoenix Technologies Ltd., a BIOS software company, where he was Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee, from October 1999 to March 2006, Mr. Terino served as a director of EBT International, Inc., a then publicly traded web content management software company, where he was Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Terino also previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Arlington Tankers Ltd., an international seaborne transporter of crude oil and petroleum products, from July 2005 until December 2008, when the company merged with General Maritime Corporation. From September 2001 to June 2005, Mr. Terino was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Art Technology Group, Inc., a then publicly traded eCommerce software company. Prior to 2001, Mr. Terino held senior financial and operational management positions over a 15-year period with several publicly traded technology and educational publishing companies. Mr. Terino began his career at Deloitte & Touche and spent nine (9) years in their consulting services organization. Mr. Terino earned a BS degree in Management from Northeastern University and an MBA from Suffolk University.

About Starboard Value LP

Starboard Value LP is a New York-based investment adviser with a focused and differentiated fundamental approach to investing in publicly traded U.S. small cap companies. Starboard invests in deeply undervalued small cap companies and actively engages with management teams and boards of directors to identify and execute on opportunities to unlock value for the benefit of all shareholders.

About Oliver Press Partners, LLC

Oliver Press Partners, LLC was founded in 2005 by Augustus K. Oliver and Clifford Press and manages several investment funds, including OP Select Fund, LP.

Investor contacts:
Peter Feld, (212) 201-4878
Gavin Molinelli, (212) 201-4828
www.starboardvalue.com

1 Does not include unexercised options that have been granted as part of the Board's compensation program.

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