LG Electronics Selects RMI's Alchemy Au1200 Processor for LN 790 Portable Navigation Device With Multimedia Capabilities

Business Wire, Jan 10, 2007

Raza Microelectronics, Inc. Power-Optimized SoC Solution Chosen for Performance per Watt and Integration Advantages

LAS VEGAS -- Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI([R])), a leading supplier of processors for communications and consumer applications, today announced that LG Electronics (LG), a leader in consumer electronics and mobile communications, has selected the Au1200 processing solution from Raza Microelectronics, Inc. for its LN 790 Portable Navigation Device with integrated Multimedia capabilities.

The LN 790 from LG is a highly integrated Portable Navigation Device complete with multimedia capability including Music, Photo and Video file playback. The PND features a slim and compact design and a 4.3" TFT LCD (480 x 272 QVGA) with battery run time of up to 4 hours. The navigation capabilities include a touch screen with Millions of POI's, Bluetooth[TM] Headset and Audio streaming as well as TTS (Text to Speech) with Turn-by-Turn Voice Guidance. The LN790 interfaces include a USB 2.0 slot and an SD Card slot. The player comes complete with preloaded United States and Canada map.

"LG is excited to work with RMI and believe that the Alchemy Au1200 Processor gives us the most robust solution available to continue offering the world's most advanced products for the Consumer Electronics market," said Mr. Joo-Young Kim, Chief Research Engineer at LG. "For the products that we are delivering today and for products in the future, we believe that RMI's product roadmap and expertise will afford us the ability to be successful."

The RMI Alchemy[TM] Au1200, the processor of choice for full-featured Portable Navigation Devices, Personal Media Players (PMP), and mobile TV devices, is a high-performance processor capable of delivering a rich multi-media experience to end users. The powerful processor enables users to download media quickly and enjoy DVD-quality video efficiently delivered at full standard definition resolution, with several video format options. The Alchemy Au1200 processor gives system designers an easy-to-use, simple solution to create full-featured portable solutions with greatly reduced design cycle times. The System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture integrates most peripheral components.

"RMI is proud to be working with LG on its Portable Navigation Device as they are recognized as one of the strongest electronics companies in the world," said Mike Wodopian, vice president and general manager, Alchemy Solutions at RMI. "As a leader in their business, and as a leader in our market, we feel that there is a strong synergy for successful product development between the two companies and we look forward to working with them on this generation of products and the generations to come."

RMI's products push the edge of processor technology in performance and integration and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to quickly respond to changing market needs. The company's XLR[TM], Alchemy, and Orion[TM] processor families are complex, highly-integrated designs incorporating hundreds of millions of transistors and built on leading-edge silicon process technologies.

About Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI)

Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI[R]) is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly integrated, feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security markets. RMI offers the most advanced and the most complete MIPS-Based[R] processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with subsidiary offices in Texas, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company's website at http://www.RazaMicro.com.

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