Crucial Technology Shifts Flash Drive Line into Overdrive; New Crucial Gizmo! Overdrive Boasts Write Speeds up to 13 MB Per Second

The new Gizmo! overdrives are housed in the same slim Gizmo! drivecasing, but sport new colors and optional security software. Featuresinclude the following:

Crucial Gizmo! overdrive

-- Write speeds up to 80X or 13 MB/s

-- Read speeds up to 160X or 25 MB/s

-- Glossy-white 68mm x 20mm case

-- Transfer-indicating red LED

-- Available in 512MB, 1GB, and 2GB densities

-- Currently priced from $47.99 (512MB) to $175.99 (2GB)

Crucial Gizmo! overdrive with security software

-- Same performance as Gizmo! overdrive

-- Security software for data encryption and password protection

-- Jet-black 68mm x 20mm case

-- Currently priced from $49.99 (512MB) to $189.99 (2GB)

"We took the award-winning design of the current Crucial Gizmo!drive, stepped up the performance, improved the look, and added aversion with security software," said Crucial Technology ProductMarketing Manager Terry Groth. "This new combination of featuresallows you to move and store your data quickly and safely, too -- amust for today's demanding, on-the-go users."

The Gizmo! overdrive automatically appears as a removable drivewhen plugged into the USB port of a desktop PC, Macintosh or notebookand is compatible with Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 and above, Mac(R)OS 9.1 and above and Linux kernel 2.2.19. Security software supportsonly Microsoft Windows 2000 and above. Each Gizmo! overdrive isHi-Speed USB 2.0-compliant and comes with a multilingual user guide,limited lifetime warranty, free second-day shipping (for a limitedtime only) within the contiguous U.S. on qualified orders andCrucial's renowned customer service and free technical support. A USB2.0-compliant port is required for operation at Hi-Speed.

About Crucial

Crucial Technology is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products,Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc.Crucial provides high-quality memory upgrades, graphics cards, flashmemory and a host of products to enhance the entire computingexperience on its Web site at http://www.crucial.com. Crucial offersover 110,000 upgrades for more than 20,000 desktops, notebooks,servers, routers, printers and electronic devices.

Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading providersof advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations,Micron manufactures and markets DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS imagesensors, other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use inleading-edge computing, consumer, networking and mobile products.Micron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc.,visit www.micron.com.

Micron, Crucial, Crucial Technology and Gizmo! are trademarks ofMicron Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of theirrespective owners.