FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Xilinx Reports Strong Revenue Growth in CPLD Business
Leader in programmable logic technology achieves rapid growth
across complete CPLD Portfolio

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2004 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world's leading programmable logic supplier, today announced it continues to see strong demand across its entire CPLD portfolio. For the most recent calendar quarter ending December 2003, revenues for the portfolio as a whole grew over 25 percent quarter-to quarter. This represents a continued market segment share gain in 10 of the previous 11 quarters. Overall the company has more than doubled its CPLD segment share in just five years.

The company attributes this success to continuously driving for lower costs and ramping production volumes to support increasing customer demand throughout North America and Asia. In addition, the Xilinx® CoolRunner-II™ RealDigital™ CPLD product family continues to gain significant momentum in the latest consumer electronics, communications and data processing systems. The low power features of the CoolRunner-II product family continue to be adopted for use in today’s PDAs, smart phones, and digital camera devices.

About CoolRunner-II RealDigital CPLDs
CoolRunner-II RealDigital CPLDs provide the high performance and low cost advantages of a programmable logic device without the typical price premium normally associated with low power devices. Available in densities ranging from 32 to 512 macrocells, the CoolRunner-II family achieves system performance up to 385 MHz and pin-to-pin delays as fast as 3.0ns while providing a standby current as low as 12 microamps (<12mA) - an industry first.

About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at www.xilinx.com.

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Editorial contact:

Tamara Snowden

Xilinx, Inc. Public Relations

(408) 879-6146

tamara.snowden@xilinx.com