FEI Company Announces Dates For First Quarter Financial Release And Investor Conference Participation

HILLSBORO, Ore., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2006 after the financial markets close on Wednesday, May 3, 2006. The first quarter ended on April 2, 2006.

A conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss the results will be held on Wednesday, May 3 at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT). Access to the call will be available at 1-800-240-2134 (U.S., toll-free) or 1-303-262-2190 (international), with the conference title: FEI Q1 Earnings Call. A telephone replay of the call will be available at 1-800-405-2236 (U.S.) or 1-303-590-3000 (international) with the passcode: 11058537#. Both live and recorded audio webcasts of the call will be available at the investor relations section of the company's web site at www.feicompany.com.

In addition, the company announced that its management will make a presentation to investors on Wednesday, May 31 at 3:05 p.m. at the 34th Annual Cowen & Company Technology Conference at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, New York. Interested investors can access an audio webcast of the presentation on FEI's Web site at www.feicompany.com, where it will be played live and archived in the presentations area of the investor relations section.

About FEI:

FEI's Tools for Nanotech(TM), featuring focused ion- and electron-beam technologies, deliver 3D characterization, analysis and modification capabilities with resolution down to the sub-Angstrom level. With R&D centers in North America and Europe and sales and service operations in more the 50 countries around the world, FEI is bringing the nanoscale within the grasp of leading researchers and manufacturers and helping to turn some of the biggest ideas of the this century into reality. More information can be found on the FEI website at: www.feicompany.com.

FEI Company

CONTACT: Fletcher Chamberlin, Investor Relations of FEI, +1-503-726-7710,or fchamberlin@feico.com

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