The webcast will be available to all interested parties through Asyst’s website, http://www.asyst.com.   To access the simultaneous webcast, select the Investor Relations section from Asyst’s home page.  On the Investor Relations page, select the Webcast button and log onto the “Click here for webcast” area under the ‘Piper Jaffray 8th Annual Hardware & Communications Conference’ title.  An archive of the presentation will be available within 24 hours of the conclusion of the live presentation and will be accessible for 30 days.

For more information on the conference, please contact your Piper Jaffray representative directly.

Asyst Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated automation solutions that enable semiconductor and flat panel display (FPD) manufacturers to increase their manufacturing productivity and protect their investment in materials during the manufacturing process. Encompassing isolation systems, work-in-process materials management, substrate-handling robotics, automated transport and loading systems, and connectivity automation software, Asyst's modular, interoperable solutions allow chip and FPD manufacturers, as well as original equipment manufacturers, to select and employ the value-assured, hands-off manufacturing capabilities that best suit their needs. Asyst's homepage is http://www.asyst.com.

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Statements in this press release regarding Asyst Technologies's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005.

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