Zi Corporation Announces Agreement With Arm

Business Wire, Sept 29, 1997

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1997--Zi Corp(TSE, Alberta Stock Exchange ZIC., NASDAQ ZICAF. ) Zi Corporation (TSE: ZIC; NASDAQ: ZICAF) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) to market, distribute and sub-license the Zi Corporation Chinese character-based language processing technology.

Under this agreement Zi technology is expected to become available to major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide for integration into small devices and appliances, principally Information/Internet Appliances (commonly referred to as IAs) such as cell phones, HPCs (hand held computers), Set Top Boxes and Internet TVs.

Selected companies that currently license technology from ARM include:

AKM                                Alcatel Mietec
Atmel                              Cirrus Logic
Digital Semiconductor              GEC Plessey Semiconductor
Hyundai                            LG Microelectronics Group
LSI Logic                          Lucent Technologies
NEC                                OKI
Philips                            Rockwell Semiconductor
ROHM Ltd.                          Samsung Semiconductor
Sharp Microelectronics             Sony
Symbios Logic                      Texas Instruments
VLSI Technology                    Yamaha