Xilinx Ships 5 Millionth 90nm Device; 128 million spartan devices

Company delivers more than 70% of the world's 90nm FPGAs

SAN JOSE, Calif. , August 16, 2005 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today 
announced that the company is supplying more than 70 percent of the world's 
90nm field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), based upon cumulative revenues, 
and has shipped more than five million 90nm units to date. As the world's 
leading programmable solutions supplier with 57 percent market segment share 
for FPGAs, Xilinx commands more than a two-year lead in 90nm manufacturing and 
is shipping a total of four 90nm FPGA families  Virtex-4, Spartan-3E, 
Spartan-3L and Spartan-3.

Today's news underscores the company's commitment to lead the programmable 
logic industry in adoption of the world's most advanced chip-making processes 
to meet customer demand for increasingly low cost, high performance 
programmable chips. X ilinx success at 90nm continues to be fueled by broad 
adoption of its flagship Spartan-3 product family, which nearly doubled in the 
most recent quarter. Based upon cumulative revenues through the company's most 
recent quarter, consumer and automotive (two of the fastest growing markets 
for programmable chips) make up more than 14 percent of Xilinx sales.

With more than a 2X delta in revenues over our nearest competitor and more 
than 5M in device shipments, 90nm has become mainstream for Xilinx, said 
Sandeep Vij, vice president of worldwide marketing at Xilinx. By aggressively 
moving down the process technology curve with each generation, Xilinx 
continues to deliver the world's lowest cost and highest performance FPGAs to 
customers. Our multi-foundry strategy and partnership with UMC and Toshiba 
Corporation is a key to our success at 90nm.

Xilinx Virtex-II Pro World's Most Popular 130nm FPGA
In addition to 90nm, Xilinx remains at the forefront of the industry in130nm 
FPGA adoption. Based upon results from the most recent quarter, Virtex-II Pro 
family sales are 30 percent larger than any other 130nm FPGA.

While other 130nm FPGAs have peaked and declined in revenues, added Vij,
the Virtex-II Pro family continues on a steady ramp, with record revenues 
resulting from multi-generational, system-level architectural wins. Customer 
adoption has been spurred by robust system-level features, including 
high-speed DSP, integrated IBM PowerPC processor cores and multi gigabit 
serial transceivers.

To date, Xilinx has shipped more than 8X the number of platform FPGAs with 
embedded hard processors or multi-gigabit serial transceivers than any other 
PLD vendor.

About Xilinx Spartan-3 Series FPGAs
In 1998, Xilinx ignited the low cost FPGA revolution with the introduction of 
the Spartan Series. Today, Spartan Series FPGAs are broadly adopted in 
high-volume, consumer applications, with over 128 million units shipped and 
$1.2B in cumulative revenue. With the March, 2005 introduction of its 
Spartan-3E family, Xilinx continues to add new market-specific features to its 
low cost Spartan Series while reducing the cost by 30X since its introduction, 
offering 1000 logic cells for as little as $0.46.

About Xilinx Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs
Named 2004 Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine, Xilinx 
Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and lower power than 
any other FPGA family available today. Manufactured using the world's first 
triple-oxide 90nm CMOS technology with 11-layer metal interconnect, Virtex-4 
devices represent a quantum leap in programmable device architecture, 
technology, and system design capabilities. With more than 100 technical 
innovations, the Virtex-4 family consists of 17 devices and three 
domain-optimized platforms; Virtex-4 LX FPGAs optimized for logic-intensive 
designs, Virtex-4 SX FPGAs optimized for high-performance signal processing, 
and Virtex-4 FX FPGAs optimized for high-speed serial connectivity and 
embedded processing. Devices are shipping now. For more information on the 
Virtex-4 product family, visit www.xilinx.com/virtex4.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For 
more information, visit www.xilinx.com.