Court Issues Stay of California Action Challenging Pending Siliconix Exchange Offer

Court Issues Stay of California Action Challenging Pending
Siliconix Exchange Offer 


MALVERN, Pa., April 26  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
(NYSE:VSH) announced that the California Superior Court today granted Vishay's
motion to stay the purported class action filed in California challenging
Vishay's pending exchange offer for the shares of Siliconix incorporated
(NASDAQ:SILI) not owned by Vishay.

Vishay has previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission an
amended prospectus and exchange offer statement and related exchange offer
materials.  Siliconix stockholders should read the amended exchange offer
statement and the other exchange offer materials because they contain important
information.  Investors can obtain the amended exchange offer statement and
other filed documents without charge from the web site of the SEC at
http://www.sec.gov/.  Investors can also obtain the amended exchange offer
statement and all other exchange offer materials from MacKenzie Partners, Inc.,
the information agent for the offer, 105 Madison Avenue, New York, New York
10016, [phone] or [phone].

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH),
is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes,
rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics) and selected ICs, and passive
electronic components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transducers).
Vishay's components can be found in products manufactured in a very broad range
of industries worldwide. Vishay is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and
has operations in 17 countries employing over 25,000 people. Vishay can be
found on the Internet at http://www.vishay.com/. 

DATASOURCE: Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.



CONTACT:  Richard N. Grubb, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial

Officer of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., [phone]

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