Intevac to Present at 2nd Annual Needham HDD Investor Day

Santa Clara, CA — Business Wire — August 21, 2008

Intevac, Inc. (Nasdaq:IVAC) announced today it is scheduled to present at Needham and Company's second annual Hard Disk Drive investor day in New York. Kevin Fairbairn, chief executive officer, and Jeff Andreson, chief financial officer, will be participating in the event, as follows:

Needham and Company HDD Investor Day
Needham Headquarters, New York, NY
September 4, 2008
Presentation Time: 11:35 a.m. ET

The presentation slides from the conference will be available through the presentations link on the investor page of the company's
web site.

About Intevac

Intevac was founded in 1991 and has two businesses: Equipment and Intevac Photonics.

Equipment Business: We are a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of high-productivity lean manufacturing systems and have been producing Lean Thinking platforms since 1994. We are the leading supplier of magnetic media sputtering equipment to the hard disk drive industry and offer advanced etch technology systems to the semiconductor industry.

Intevac Photonics: We are a leader in the development of leading edge, high-sensitivity imaging products, vision systems and miniature Raman instruments. Markets addressed include military, industrial, physical science and life science.

For more information call 408-986-9888, or visit the company's website at www.intevac.com.