SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1999--

e.Digital Corp. (OTCBB


:EDIG
) announced today that Skip Matthews, Ph.D., will join its Board of Directors effective August 1.

Dr. Matthews joins e.Digital's Board upon retirement from a distinguished 25-year career with Intel Corp. with his last position being senior project development manager.

Initially in charge of development of equipment for manufacturing at Intel, Matthews has worked the last eight years marketing Intel's flash memory products. He has focused on innovative audio and photographic applications for flash memory during the last four years.

Matthews stated, "I was attracted to e.Digital because they were the first to adopt flash memory in an audio recorder. There is great potential for further application of e.Digital's technology in Internet music players and even more advanced audio applications such as speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems."

He continued, "In the twenty years
since the advent of the PC, people have typed, read, and clicked. In the next twenty years we are going to talk and listen to handheld devices that interact with our PC's. The biggest areas for growth are in the technology that helps make that possible."