London, November 16 , 2011: Mirics^™, developer of FlexiTV^™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, announces availability of their FlexiStream™ client software for Apple iOS devices, bringing live European DVB-T broadcast TV to personal screens, worldwide.  

Already offered for Windows PCs, the Mirics FlexiStream player has been released to Apple for approval and will be in the store shortly.

Mirics FlexiStream works in conjunction with Mirics FlexiTV’s software and built-in TV-tuner to re-stream over IP a received live digital broadcast TV signal from a user’s FlexiTV-powered computer.

The FlexiStream server on the host PC then transcodes and delivers this live, personal content to other PCs or now to Apple iOS devices for remote viewing.  No subscription fees are required to maintain access - only the FlexiTV-enabled PC to tune in HD and SD broadcast signals, sent to the FlexiStream-enabled iOS device for remote viewing.

Currently, the FlexiStream client app is available for European FlexiTV users only, supporting the DVB-T broadcast standard, but allowing that content to be accessed on a connected FlexiStream-enabled device anywhere in the world. 

On the viewing device, users can see up-to-date channel listings and guide information and switch in real-time between available live broadcast channels - controlling the FlexiTV tuner remotely. Additional supported regions and TV standards, plus feature-enhancements such as remote-DVR control are expected in the coming months as FlexiTV expands its reach worldwide.

 “We’re tremendously excited to expand our FlexiStream technology from the PC over to the leading mobile operating system and devices via iOS support,” said Mirics CEO Simon Atkinson. “Providing remote access to live, broadcast TV, whether it’s that breaking news story or top sporting event, means FlexiTV users are now covered whether at home or on the move through Mirics’ comprehensive TV delivery solutions.”

The Mirics FlexiStream app is available for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad/2 devices running iOS v4.0 and above.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com

 

Press information:
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Tel: +44 (0) 7805 083 595. Email: Richard.Peel@rppr.biz

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London, October 27: Mirics^™, developer of FlexiTV^™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, has today announced that it has completed development of DAB & DAB+ solutions for ARM® processor-based applications, bringing low cost, region independent mobile TV and radio reception to media rich smartphones and tablets.

This expands Mirics’ ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor-based FlexiTV platform that already boasts T-DMB. The latest development for ARM Cortex applications processors also demonstrates Mirics' on-going commitment to enable platform agnostic broadcast content, while substantially reducing the cost and footprint of adding TV and radio reception to tablet devices.

“Taking our existing DAB+ product to the ARM Cortex architecture was the next step in our on-going CPU migration,” said Simon Atkinson, Mirics CEO. “The figures on the ARM platform are very impressive, with the demodulator taking less than 8% of a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9. The ARM Cortex-A9 processors are the de-facto standard embedded applications processors for many mobile computing devices, so the architecture was the natural choice for us to target with FlexiTV."

Lance Howarth, EVP Marketing, ARM commented, “Mirics’ DAB+ solution demonstrates that the efficient NEON™ media processing engine, which is an integral part of all ARM Cortex™-A series processors including the Cortex-A15 and recently announced Cortex-A7 processors, is capable of enabling a broad range of compelling multimedia and signal processing features, including software TV and radio, on the latest generation of mobile computing devices”

DAB+ is an extension of DAB – it uses the same physical layer but encodes the audio using AAC giving the consumer improved reception. In addition its higher compression ratio can provide broadcasts either more channels at equivalent quality or frees up space for program associated data services.

Hong Kong-based USmart Electronic Products Ltd. (USmart) is the first Mirics partner to demonstrate a FlexiTV based DAB+ product during the recent Hong Kong Electronics Fair, receiving DAB+ through an Android player running on the Samsung Exynos 4210 CPU in the Galaxy SII.

Ben Wong, CEO, USmart, commented: “This is very neat as it makes it a nice application for ARM Cortex processor-based tablets now that DAB+ has been deployed in Hong Kong.”

Mirics DAB and DAB+ solutions are available for evaluation and licensing now and join their T-DMB Korean and ISDB-T 1-Seg Japanese mobile TV products launched in early 2010.

It is hoped that the DAB and DAB+ solutions will be demonstrated on smartphones next year.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

 

Press information:
Richard Peel, Managing Director, RPPR Ltd.

Tel: +44 (0) 7805 083 595. Email: Richard.Peel@rppr.biz

Ref: MIR101/A1

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London, September 6, 2011: Mirics^™, developer of FlexiTV^™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, has teamed up with VERTEX3D, a leading brand of AMD graphics cards, to launch VTX3D HD6670/6570 Digital Streamer Edition, enabling graphics card users to watch free digital TV on their PCs.

The Digital Streamer version of the HD6670/6570 adds Mirics FlexiTV software and a built in TV-tuner to this powerful graphics product. When connected to a standard TV antenna, it will receive and decode all the local free-to-air TV and radio stations.

Using the PC’s Window Media Center with Mirics FlexiTV, the user can watch, record, save and playback programs whenever they want. In addition the VTX3D Digital Streamer Edition enables the PC to become a streaming server and users can watch all of their home TV programs anywhere in the world on their PC in HD/SD quality.

Said Mirics CEO Simon Atkinson: “The Digital Streamer Edition, using FlexiTV technology, gives viewers an opportunity to watch the programs of their choice in HD/SD quality on their PC or client device.

It’s another step towards meeting the consumer demand for the best quality television wherever and whenever they want it.”  

The VTX3D HD6670 Digital Streamer Edition supports 1GB of the latest GDDR5 memory and is clocked at 800 MHz core speed and 1000MHz memory speed.

The HD6570 Digital Streamer Edition is fitted with 1GB of DDR3 memory and clocked at 650MHz core speed and 667MHzx2 memory speed.

The graphics cards decode TV signals smoothly and compress the stream for trouble free viewing on the PC or remotely over the internet. So, there are no limits on the viewing of programs wherever you are, and no additional licenses, subscriptions or fees needed.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

 

Press information:
Richard Peel, Managing Director, RPPR Ltd.

Tel: +44 (0) 7805 083 595. Email: Richard.Peel@rppr.biz

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London, June 28, 2011: Mirics^™, developer of FlexiTV^™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced that FREEVIEW^™ logo approval has been granted for the Mirics MSi3101 DVB-T TV receiver solution in a PC following certification by Digital TV Labs, enabling the mark to be used on personal computers.

This certification is the gold seal for DVB-T reception in the UK digital TV market and will help increase the understanding of consumers and vendors about the capability of PC products containing the Mirics solution.

It follows the certification of Microsoft Windows 7 Media Centre three years ago.

The latest trusted approval will distinguish the PC Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) adopting the mark from the other desktop computers sold in the UK, which don’t have this capability.

This is another important quality milestone for the Mirics FlexiTV solution and means that the Global TV solution, using Mirics’ soft demodulator technology, will be the lowest cost TV solution shipping in a personal computer that is FREEVIEW compliant.  

Simon Atkinson, Mirics CEO, said: “This symbolizes a change in the way people are beginning to watch television and is recognition of quality assurance for the Mirics solution.”

Keith Potter, Digital TV Labs CEO added: “We are delighted to see the Mirics technology clear this milestone so that they can continue to enable the home PC to become a compelling and important platform for digital TV in the future.”

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

 

Press information:
Richard Peel, Managing Director, RPPR Ltd.

Tel: +44 (0) 7805 083 595. Email: Richard.Peel@rppr.biz

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Taipei, May 30^th, 2011: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced that Intel Corporation will deliver global broadcast TV through an upcoming Intel-branded PC Motherboard.

This revolutionary development has been achieved by enhancing Intel’s Desktop Board DH61AG with an integrated dual-tuner digital terrestrial TV mini-card. Mirics will be previewing the technology live at its meeting suite at Computex 2011 in Taipei, May 30^th - June 4^th, 2011.

Intel’s DH61AG Mini-ITX motherboard is designed for multimedia entertainment. The addition of the FlexiTV-powered MC002 mini-card, produced by Yuan High-Tech, enables digital terrestrial TV reception across all global standards via a single product SKU, through Mirics’ smart silicon and software solution.

Michelle Johnston, General Manager of Intel’s Channel Platform and Solutions Division, commented: “Consumers are looking to manage and view broadcast television content at any time and the addition of Mirics’ FlexiTV global solution to our small and flexible DH61AG Mini-ITX motherboard is leading the charge on delivering integrated, rich multimedia capabilities at compelling cost points."

Demonstrations at Computex 2011 will show reception of live standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) content from terrestrial broadcast sources. Using standard playback software such as Windows Media Center, through the dual-tuner design, users can view and record multiple live TV stations simultaneously on PCs equipped with the motherboard and integrated mini-card.

Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics said: “This is an exciting breakthrough and a significant technology development. Coupling Intel’s multimedia offering with the Mirics’ solution for global broadcast TV, tied to the motherboard, makes for a compelling package. It is an incredibly attractive proposition for those who want to watch their favourite TV programmes wherever and whenever they want.”

Yuan’s FlexiTV-enabled MC002 dual-tuner mini-card solution integrated with Pegatron motherboards based on the DH61AG reference design are sampling now and will be in full production later this summer.

Other Mirics-enabled global TV products in a variety of form-factors will also be shown during Computex 2011 in Mirics’ Demo Suite #1136 at the Grand Hyatt Taipei.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com

 

Press information:
Richard Peel, Managing Director, RPPR Ltd.

Tel: +44 (0) 7805 083 595. Email: Richard.Peel@rppr.biz

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Mirics@Computex Taipei 2011: demoing global TV solutions incl. new motherboard products. Visit the Grand Hyatt Taipei, Mirics Suite #1136.

 

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Sunnyvale, CA., March 1st, 2011: Mirics today announced a chipset that supports all terrestrial and cable TV standards deployed globally, making it possible for tablet, notebook and desktop computers to receive content wherever there is a broadcast signal. The FlexiTV MSi3113 – which is Mirics’ second-generation chipset – surpasses the size and power consumption benchmarks set by its predecessor, at lower cost, making standard and high definition broadcast reception accessible to a wider audience.

Designed for use with Mirics’ FlexiTV^TM processor-efficient software demodulator algorithms, the MSi3113 chipset consists of the MSi003 multi-standard RF tuner chip and the MSi2501 USB bridge chip. Each is supplied in an ultra compact 5x5 mm package. This small footprint makes the chipset extremely well-suited to integration on the main board of a tablet PC or motherboard of a notebook PC.

In addition to support for the full range of worldwide terrestrial and cable TV standards, MSi3113 is also suitable for all mainstream digital radio standards, including DAB, DAB+, DMB and HD Radio, and can deliver FM signals. It incorporates an infrared remote control capability.

“The new generation silicon delivers an exceptional price/performance/size combination, extending functionality while reducing footprint and power consumption,” commented Jay Nunez, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Mirics. “The MSi3113 chipset provides tablet and PC manufacturers with a simple route to leveraging the broadcast TV software already built into many modern Windows PCs across the globe.”

Mirics’ new FlexiTV MSi3113 chipset is currently sampling to selected partners. Mirics products will be on display at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, from March 1^st – 5^th, 2011 at Sapphire Technologies’ booth in Hall 17, D60.

 

About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

www.mirics.com

 

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Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

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Andrew Town +44 (0) 20 8429 6546 or Jonathan Roberts +44 (0) 20 8429 6540
Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Leading graphics card supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology has just launched a new TV tuner card with a difference - the SAPPHIRE HD 5570 XtendTV card.

The SAPPHIRE HD 5570 XtendTV card is a single slot PCI-Express graphics card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and HDMI and DVI outputs – and a built in programmable TV tuner. Connected to a standard TV antenna signal, it will receive and decode all of the local free to air TV and radio stations*.  Just as with a regular TV tuner, the user can watch TV on the host PC using Media Center – record, save and playback programs at will.

But XtendTV does more. Installing the FlexiStream software on the PC in which the card is installed enables the PC as a streaming server and users can watch all of their home TV programmes anywhere in the world using the XtendTV client on a remote PC or laptop**.

Based on FlexiTV and FlexiStream technologies from Mirics, the SAPPHIRE XtendTV solution uses the Accelerated Parallel Processing (stream processing) capability of the on-board HD 5570 graphics chip to decode the TV signals smoothly and to compress the stream for viewing over the internet.

No licence or IP issues !

With SAPPHIRE Xtend TV you are watching programmes on your own PC – streamed to you over the internet on a one-to-one basis – so there are no blocks on the availability of programmes wherever you may be – and no additional licence required.

SAPPHIRE HD 5570

The HD 5570 is a member of the SAPPHIRE HD 5000 series which is supported by AMD's Catalyst DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver. This generation of hardware delivers support for all of the key Microsoft DirectX 11 level features including DirectCompute 11 instructions, hardware Tessellation and multi-threaded communications with the system CPU. It also supports Accelerated Parallel Processing, accelerating supported applications such as video transcoding and rendering tasks by executing instructions on the GPU architecture rather than the system CPU.

Ideal for media applications, all members of the SAPPHIRE HD 5570 series have an on board hardware UVD (Unified Video Decoder) considerably reducing CPU load and delivering smooth decoding of Blu-ray™ and HD DVD content for both VC-1 and H.264 codecs, as well as Mpeg files. In the SAPPHIRE HD 5000 series the UVD has been enhanced to be able simultaneously to decode two 1080p HD video streams and to be able to display HD video in high quality with Windows Aero mode enabled. It supports HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

 About Mirics technology

Mirics FlexiTV is a multi-standard broadcast TV receiver for personal computer and portable processor-based devices. Using the PC’s processor for demodulation, any digital TV and radio standard can be received, resulting in a highly optimized multi-standard receiver platform. This allows maximum standards flexibility, and a single hardware design for worldwide terrestrial TV and radio reception.

FlexiStream™ is an innovative extension to the FlexiTV platform.  FlexiStream utilizes a FlexiTV-enabled home-server (such as a desktop PC) for local reception, viewing and recording of live broadcast content. The FlexiStream server software then provides real-time re-formatting and IP-streaming of the live or previously recorded TV to a portable device featuring the FlexiStream client software - anywhere in the world.

Note* - DVB-T only at launch.

Note** - Other portable apps in development.

All trademarks acknowledged.

For further details please visit www.sapphiretech.com

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Las Vegas, January 5^th, 2011: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced that its partner DigiBest Technology has begun shipping PCTV solutions based on FlexiTV for the reception of digital terrestrial ATSC broadcasts.  ATSC is the standard already deployed in the USA and now expanding to Canada and Mexico.

Taiwanese original device manufacturer (ODM) DigiBest has been supplying FlexiTV-based products to manufacturers of branded goods in Japan and Latin America since early 2010. These USB dongle and minicard format devices supported the ISDB-T Full-Seg (HD) digital terrestrial TV (DTT) services in the regions’ domestic markets. DigiBest is now able to help manufacturers address the United States and broader North American DTT market with Mirics’ innovative solution.

Robert Wang, CEO, DigiBest, commented: “Leveraging Mirics FlexiTV has already proved successful for our products in Japan and Latin America and we are anticipating equal success as we rollout in the US, Canada and Mexico. FlexiTV’s combination of performance and cost makes it a compelling solution.”

Jay Nunez, VP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Mirics, added: “The past year has seen FlexiTV gain traction worldwide. Our customers are now shipping FlexiTV-enabled solutions in a variety of hardware formats to multiple regions. We are pleased to be working with DigiBest as they bring their products to the US market and beyond.”

Mirics will be demonstrating its technology at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 from 6-9^th January at the Las Vegas Hilton, Lanai Suite HL-334. Meetings can be prearranged by contacting CES@mirics.com.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

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Las Vegas, January 4^th, 2011: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced a technology partnership with SAPPHIRE Technology Ltd- a leading supplier of add-in graphics cards for PCs - which will enable users to turn their PC into a receiver and home hub for digital terrestrial TV. The two companies will be previewing the technology at their respective meeting suites during the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, January 6-9, 2011.

Adrian Thompson, VP of Marketing at SAPPHIRE - the world’s largest manufacturer of add-in cards based on AMD (NYSE: AMD)’s graphics chips -commented: “SAPPHIRE’s extensive range of graphics cards enhances the user experience in everything from high performance gaming to mainstream entertainment. Extending this range  to support broadcast HDTV is a natural progression, and Mirics’ FlexiTV software-based global TV receiver and FlexiStream provide the perfect method of achieving this goal.”

Demonstrations will show PCs equipped with SAPPHIRE graphics cards receiving live standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) content from broadcast sources and relayed, using Mirics’ FlexiStream software, from FlexiTV-equipped PCs in Europe and Asia. FlexiStream enables users to stream content between PCs within the home or via the Internet, enabling viewing of their favorite broadcast channels while away from home.

Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics said: “SAPPHIRE is a world leader and we are delighted to be partnering with a company of its stature. This announcement is further proof of the power and flexibility of the Mirics FlexiTV solution, demonstrating its ability to deliver TV in a variety of novel form factors.”

Demonstrations of graphics add-in cards coupled with Mirics FlexiTV and FlexiStream will be showcased by SAPPHIRE at the Marquee Suite, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, and by Mirics at the Las Vegas Hilton, Lanai Suite HL-334. Meetings can be prearranged at the Mirics Suite by contacting CES@mirics.com or at the SAPPHIRE Suite by contacting philipwynnjones@sapphiretech.com.

Other Mirics-enabled solutions in a variety of form-factors will also be shown at the Mirics suite and at the USmart Electronics meeting suite in the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall Lower Level #26018.

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About SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE Technology is the largest manufacturer and supplier worldwide of graphics solutions based on AMD Technology. SAPPHIRE also manufactures a range of PC and integrated mainboards and an increasing range of lifestyle products using its expertise in the design and implementation of systems based on core PC technologies.

For more information please visit www.sapphiretech.com

 

About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

 

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Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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San Jose, CA, and Sao Paulo, Brazil – November 22, 2010: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced a solution with ArcSoft, a leading multimedia software provider, that will enable viewers in Latin America to watch broadcast high definition television (HDTV) on their PCs. The combination of FlexiTV with ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 allows PC users to benefit from HD content broadcast free-to-air (FTA) over the region’s rapidly expanding digital terrestrial TV networks.

“Mirics and ArcSoft have worked closely together in field-testing our products to deliver proven interoperability,” commented Sean Bi, ArcSoft’s VP and General Manager. “This will ensure that original device manufacturers (ODMs) and local PC brands operating in Latin America can have complete confidence in the solution, which will extend HD viewership to PCs.”

Chris Cytera, Marketing Director for Mirics, added: “ArcSoft is leading the way with HD content in Latin America due to its excellent support on the PC platform and ISDB-T standard to provide the highest quality viewing experience for HDTV. Consequently, Mirics’ strong partnership with ArcSoft will benefit manufacturers and viewers alike.”

Initial target markets for FlexiTV are Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Other Latin American countries which have adopted the ISDB-T digital terrestrial TV broadcast standard are also supported. The ArcSoft/Mirics solution can further support ISDB-T OneSeg – the standard for mobile DTV broadcasts – in areas or situations where it is not possible to receive the ISDB-T FullSeg HD signal.

The integrated ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 and Mirics FlexiTV solution is available and shipping now.

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About ArcSoft

ArcSoft, Inc. is an industry leading software developer of multimedia technologies and applications across desktop and embedded platforms. Working closely with major OEM manufacturers, ArcSoft offers a full line of imaging and video solutions that enhance the features, performance, and user experience of mobile phones, digital cameras, optical drives, personal computers, and consumer electronics devices. For further details, visit www.arcsoft.com.

About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

  
Further information:

Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com

 
Further information, including press enquires in Latin America:

OCPtech, representation for Mirics in latin America, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Contact: Rosangela@ocptech.com.br. Tel; +55 11 16 3237-3360

 
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San Jose, CA, USA and Fleet, UK - September 27^th, 2010: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announced the appointment of Dr. John Forrest as a Non-executive Director and board Chairman. Dr. Forrest has extensive experience founding, managing and advising companies in the broadcast and other high technology sectors, which, coupled with his knowledge of government and industry bodies, will prove invaluable as Mirics continues to expand its global presence.

Dr. Forrest was a pioneer in digital compression and a founder of the DVB alliance, which led to a worldwide standard for digital TV. His academic career spanned the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the UK, and Stanford in California. It culminated with the post of Professor of Electronic Engineering at University College London, where he had a research group in microwaves and optics.

In 1984 he joined Marconi Defence Systems as Technical Director and later became Director of Engineering at the UK’s Independent Broadcasting Authority. From this engineering team, he formed the communications company NTL, becoming its first Chief Executive and, later, Deputy Chairman.  A Fellow and Past Vice-President of both the Royal Television Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, he was awarded the CBE in H.M. the Queen's Jubilee Honours and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts at des Lettres by the French Government.

Commenting on the appointment, Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics, said: “Mirics has achieved a leading technical and commercial position, shipping the FlexiTV receiver in production volume on several continents. As the global markets for digital broadcast TV expand, we look forward to drawing on Dr. Forrest’s expertise, which we are certain will deliver benefits both for business growth and product evolution.”

Dr. Forrest added: “I am delighted to join the Mirics team.  It is a superb company with very impressive software and technology already in production.  With more exciting developments in the pipeline, I look forward to helping in this next important phase of growth.”

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

 

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com 

 

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Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Sao Paulo, Brazil - August 17^th, 2010: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today launched its best-in-class ISDB-T 1-Seg (mobile) and Full-Seg (terrestrial) digital TV offerings within Brazil and across Latin America with immediate availability.  To support their valued customers and partners in the region, Mirics has selected OCPtech, a specialist sales and marketing company, to represent the company locally.

“Latin America is a key growth region for Mirics’ FlexiTV-based products, so it was vital for us to find a highly experienced partner who further strengthens our presence in the region,” said Jay Nunez, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Mirics.  He added, “Mirics has unparalleled customer and partner support worldwide; expanding this to Latin America has been a top priority so we’re excited to partner with OCP and be launching multiple product offerings with unmatchable price and performance at this time.”

In order to provide comprehensive ISDB-T solutions within Latin America, Mirics and OCP have established relationships with multiple ODM partners, including Digibest, USmart, Costar and Hauppauge Computer Works.

Candy Wang, VP of Sales, Digibest said: “FlexiTV delivers a compelling solution from both a capability and cost perspective in this rapidly growing region for digital TV.  We’re very excited to be partnering with Mirics and bringing their innovative product to the Latin American market.”

Ken Plotkin, CEO of Hauppauge Computer Works added: “The flexibility of Mirics’ solution is one of its key benefits.  Hauppauge has already developed three product versions around FlexiTV for this market: targeting large PC OEMs looking for the lowest cost ISDB-T receivers for desktop PCs; another for desktop "drop in box" programs; and yet another for Windows 7 notebooks."

Mirics has focused on Latin America and Brazil as a key market, launching with OEM design wins already secured, immediate volume availability across the region and local manufacturing within Brazil through partnerships with Quad Core and Skycast.  At the Sao Paolo launch event, OCP and Mirics demonstrated multiple product offerings based on FlexiTV, including unique Xpresscard designs manufactured locally.

Said Paul Ayscough, Founder, OCPtech: “We are always seeking unique and cutting-edge products to represent within Latin America.  FlexiTV truly offers a clear and immediate price and performance advantage we’re already seeing amazing demand for.  Combining this technical superiority with Mirics’ key industry partnerships and dedicated manufacturing and support within Latin America, we see huge growth potential beyond this successful launch event.”

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Further information:
Mirics, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888.  Website: www.mirics.com

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San Jose, USA - July 13^th 2010: Mirics, the software-based broadcast TV receiver pioneer, today announced that it has secured $13M in additional funding with existing investors - Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Ventures – all participating in this latest financing round. This additional funding will enable Mirics to grow its market share for its ground-breaking Mirics FlexiTVÔ solution, targeting a wide range of consumer devices and PC platforms.

By addressing globally and nationally diverse TV and radio broadcast standards, Mirics is continuing to grow its customer base for its software-plus-silicon FlexiTV platform. In parallel, there is a growing industry trend for integration of broadcast TV functionality in notebook, netbook and desktop PCs; FlexiTV delivers the lowest-cost means to integrate a multi-standard broadcast receiver into such mass-market consumer products worldwide. 

Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics, said: “Securing this financing during the current global economic conditions reinforces the continued confidence and support we receive from our investors. This investment will enable us to further capitalize on the current industry demand for broadcast-enabled consumer devices using our FlexiTV solutions and increase our resources to support our growing customer base.”

Marcos Battisti, Managing Director, Intel Capital, commented: “Mirics’ investment team have all been very impressed at its recent multiple successes in securing new business across a diverse customer base. This new funding will enable Mirics to continue building its commercial growth and maintain its leadership position in software-based global broadcast receivers.” 

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.
www.mirics.com.

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San Jose, USA - May 27^th, 2010: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announces that Yuan High-Tech (“Yuan”) has developed TV tuner receivers based upon the FlexiTV platform. The reference platforms will target Yuan’s top tier OEM customers and PC system integration partners seeking robust, production-ready USB dongle and minicard-based TV tuner solutions.  

Steven Chao, CEO, Yuan, commented: “Yuan is pleased to partner with Mirics to develop the next generation of innovative PC TV solutions for its OEM and ODM customers. Yuan has a very successful 20 year history in the PC-based TV tuner segment, and Mirics’ FlexiTV delivers a commercially compelling solution to overcoming flexibility and cost challenges in this growing segment.”

Jay Nunez, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Mirics added: “Mirics is delighted to announce this partnership with Yuan to develop FlexiTV solutions. Yuan is a very experienced and highly regarded TV tuner developer for PC applications, so its selection of the FlexiTV solution is a tremendous endorsement of our ground-breaking global TV platform.”

 First production products from the partnership are expected to be available by the third quarter of 2010 for initial deployment in Asia, Europe and Latin America followed by global deployment before year’s end.

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About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.
www.mirics.com.

About Yuan High-Tech Development

YUAN High-Tech, established in the year 1990, a public list company in Taiwan, has 20 years of experience in the design, development, and manufacture of high-quality PVR, TV tuner card, MPEG2/4 encoder, DVB-T HDTV receiver, and MCE 2005 certified video periphery devices. Yuan has developed a worldwide sales network, working closely with OEM/ODM and distribution customers.

www.yuan.com.tw.

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Shanghai, P.R.C. - May 11th, 2010: Mirics, developer of FlexiTV™, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, today announces the appointment of EDOM Technology as lead distribution partner in the Greater China region. EDOM is a specialist semiconductor and software distributor, and, through its multiple office locations across China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, will provide local support to Mirics’ valued customers and partners in the region.

Vincent Wang, Vice President, Line Card Products, EDOM, commented: “EDOM specializes in supporting companies with highly innovative and competitively differentiated products. Mirics’ software-based TV receiver products clearly provide the most competitive solution to addressing cost-effective global standards TV reception. We look forward to working closely with Mirics’ local team in Asia, and supporting business growth within Greater China.”

“Greater China is a key sales region for Mirics’ FlexiTV-based products, so we are very excited to sign this agreement with EDOM, leveraging their highly experienced team to further strengthen our distribution network,” said Jay Nunez, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Mirics. He added, “Mirics aims to deliver unparalleled customer and partner support across this region through the combination of best-in-class distribution partners and Mirics’ regional sales and technical support staff.”

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cell phones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.

About EDOM Technology
Founded in July 1996, EDOM Technology is a professional IC agent and distributor based in Taiwan, with subsidiaries in China, Singapore, India and Penang of Malaysia. EDOM is a distributor for more than forty fabless IC design companies and software companies who specialize in IC designs and software with advanced technologies.  Applications of our distributed products include multimedia, portable, wireline and wireless communications, opto-electronics and consumer electronics, involving both digital and analog fields. For more information, please visit: www.edom.com.tw.

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Hong Kong - April 22nd, 2010: Mirics today announced the launch of its multi-standard broadcast TV solution connected to graphics add-in-card products.  Mirics’ Hong-Kong based partner, USmart has developed solutions using FlexiTV, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver, enabling GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)-based integration into Inno3D-branded NVIDIA® GeForce® products from ASK Technology Group Ltd. The initial products being launched this quarter will target regions widely served by the DVB-T and ISDB-T digital TV standards.   

 “Integrating broadcast TV to Inno3D GPU products is a terrific addition that appeals to our customers,” said Matthew Ho, Engineering Director, ASK Technology.  “Being first to bring this capability to market and taking advantage of the power of NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture to accelerate the Mirics solution made FlexiTV the perfect complement to our existing products.”

“Bringing FlexiTV to market in conjunction with graphics add-in cards is a natural fit,” said Jay Nunez, Vice President of WW Sales and Marketing, Mirics. “The flexibility of software-based TV and ability to leverage the processing power of the GPU make this a must-have upgrade for consumers seeking not only the best in graphics realism but also to access live digital broadcast TV on their desktop PC.”

This novel integration with GPU products is achieved through an innovative daughter-card that attaches to a graphics add-in card combined with software drivers that enable regional broadcast standards, allowing for a truly global solution as digital standards roll out worldwide.  USmart Electronic Products Ltd. is delivering the daughter-card solution designed for integration with leading GPU products.   Ben Wong, CEO, USmart stated: “When we partnered with Mirics, we saw great opportunities for bringing broadcast TV to the PC.  Launching this GPU-accelerated solution presents a terrific opportunity for consumers to not only add great graphics power to their systems, but get instant access to live TV in time for some of the great sporting events coming this summer.”

Mirics and its partners will be showing the new GPU-integrated solutions with its commercial partners at a launch event in Shenzhen, China on April 22nd, 2010.   Interested parties including consumer and technology press looking to attend can get more information on the event by contacting press@mirics.com.

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cell phones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.
Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

Further information: Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com Website: www.mirics.com

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Sunnyvale, CA. - March 3rd, 2010: Mirics today announces that Hong Kong-based USmart Electronic Products Ltd. (USmart) has partnered with Mirics to develop multi-standard broadcast TV platforms targeting notebook computers. USmart has developed solutions using FlexiTV, the world’s first commercial software-based global TV receiver. These new product developments will be timed to target fans following the 2010 FIFA World Cup on TV in Europe, Asia and South America, regions widely served by the DVB-T and ISDB-T digital TV standards.   

Ben Wong, CEO, USmart, commented: “USmart has a long and successful history of developing OEM and ODM solutions for the PC and digital peripherals market. We chose Mirics’ FlexiTV as the perfect complement to our existing products, so that USmart can offer consumers and customers a great live TV experience on-the-go, perfect for enjoying the 2010 World Cup soccer championship.”

“Mirics is extremely pleased to announce these latest commercial partnerships for its FlexiTV platform with leading Hong Kong company USmart,” said Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics. “The combination of lowest bill of materials for a global broadcast solution, and the inherent flexibility of software-based TV make FlexiTV the most compelling live TV offering on the market. In addition to developing innovative products, Mirics closely assists its customers with an extensive global support team, including locally in Asia, to ensure successful business partnerships.”

USmart will be demonstrating FlexiTV-enabled products at CeBIT in Hannover from March 2nd at Hall 17, booth #C35-A6.

To arrange a meeting with Mirics executives at CeBIT to discuss FlexiTV and how it could complement your multi-media platforms, please contact cebit@mirics.com.

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cell phones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.
Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

Further information: 
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Sunnyvale, CA. - January 6th, 2010: Mirics today announces FlexiStream™, enabling PC users to take their home TV with them anywhere on smart phones, PMPs or netbooks. Running on Windows 7, the FlexiStream home-server is used for reception, viewing, recording, real-time re-formatting and IP- streaming of live TV to any kind of portable or handheld device. Instead of expensive hardware and proprietary set-top box technology, FlexiStream makes use of the widely available Windows 7 PC and Mirics FlexiTV™, the only production global terrestrial TV tuner solution with a sub-$5 bill-of materials. FlexiTV’s optimization for the NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture enables the NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) for TV signal processing, video decoding and transcoding, while use of industry-standard streaming formats greatly simplifies the client applications.

 

All that is needed for TV reception is a Windows 7 PC equipped with Mirics’ universal terrestrial broadcast receiver, either as a USB accessory or integrated into the PC. TV can then be viewed or recorded in all geographies with Windows Media Center in High Definition or any other broadcast resolution. Furthermore, that same content can be re-formatted for whatever portable devices are in the household and streamed utilizing FlexiStream to those devices wherever they are, anywhere in the world.

 

Jay Nunez, Vice President of WW Sales and Marketing at Mirics, commented: “Mirics has simplified the process of streaming content from home with a complete end-to-end solution. From RF feed to remote LCD, Mirics delivers a global TV receiver by means of a multi-band RF front-end, revolutionary NVIDIA-assisted signal processing in software, and streaming with industry-standard protocols to a lean, fast-to-download client application. Whether it is a notebook, netbook or a touch-screen handheld, anything from that big live football game to the local news can either be watched in real-time, or a recording set up from the portable device whilst on the move. No longer is there any reason to miss anything.”

 

Chris Williams, Director of Program Management, Microsoft’s TV, Video and Music business group, added: “The new Windows 7 version of Windows Media Center can display or record TV in High Definition which complements the Mirics solution. FlexiTV with FlexiStream running on Windows 7 shows how Windows Media Center turns your PC into a complete entertainment system.”

“Whether at home or on the road, most of us want easy access to our audio, video and photos,” said Michael Steele, General Manager of visual consumer solutions at NVIDIA.  “For TV, Mirics is making that easier and NVIDIA is making it better.  Our collaboration with Mirics on FlexiTV is providing consumers a great solution that uses the GPU to optimize the PC for delivering broadcast TV.  And FlexiStream is a great example of extending that experience even further.”

 

Mirics’ FlexiStream is currently sampling to selected partners, and will be demonstrated at the NVIDIA booth #35912 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 7^th -10^th.

 

About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cell phones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.

www.mirics.com

 

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Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.comWebsite: www.mirics.com

Press information:
Pinnacle Marketing Communications
Andrew Town
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Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Sunnyvale, CA. - January 4th, 2010: Mirics today announces it has commenced volume shipments of its software-based broadcast TV receiver, FlexiTV™, to its global customer base. FlexiTV rewrites the economics of supporting global standards broadcast reception on PC platform devices such as desktops, notebooks, and netbooks, by implementing the traditional silicon demodulation functionality in software. The ability to offer value-add features such as FlexiTV is especially attractive to PC manufacturers in the current economic climate, as they enable differentiation from competitor products at the lowest cost point.

 

Commenting on the announcement, Simon Atkinson, CEO Mirics, said: “Mirics was the first company in the world to announce a software-based TV receiver when it unveiled its FlexiTV technology in 2008. In the intervening period, the team has worked diligently to ensure that FlexiTV meets all of the quality and reliability expectations of customers. The resources and product innovation required to meet the challenges of developing a prototype platform into a qualified product meeting all relevant industry standards and certifications are frequently underestimated. In addition, Mirics also needed to address the greater-than-normal quality expectations of manufacturers previously sceptical to the viability of a software-based receiver. Today’s announcement is a clear statement that Mirics has addressed all these requirements.”

 

Atkinson continued: “Mirics is building significant product inventory to meet the larger than expected customer demand for FlexiTV in 2010. To support this demand and meet future needs, we have strengthened the global sales support team, including additional distribution channels in south east Asia, and have also added further engineering resources with a new development team in Asia.”        

 

About Mirics

Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cell phones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.

www.mirics.com

 

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Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com Website: www.mirics.com

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Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Sunnyvale, CA. and Fleet, UK, November 30, 2009: Users of mobile computing and portable communications devices want to access more multimedia content, but are being held back by the lack of availability of low-cost, converged functionality devices, according to the results of a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of Mirics Semiconductor. The survey results also highlight that while users of portable consumer electronics (CE) devices have a clear vision of the increased functionality they would like from their device, they are not prepared to pay a price premium for these added features.

The research, which was recently conducted among 1000 adults in the USA, UK and Japan who regularly use a mobile CE device, such as a notebook computer or smart phone, revealed consumer interest in a wide variety of services that all rely on differing wireless communication technologies. Global Positioning System (GPS) location-based services, Wi-Fi Internet connection and the ability to receive live TV content were among the most frequent functional requests in consumers' future devices, as was the ability to easily transfer large files wirelessly. Unsurprisingly, faster Internet access was the most popular choice.

Consumers in all regions expressed general satisfaction with the physical aspects of their existing primary device: overall size, weight and screen size were judged ‘just right' by the majority. The implication is that manufacturers are catering successfully to the needs of most users in this area.
Two thirds of those surveyed already have a Wi-Fi enabled mobile device, and the majority of the remainder expressed interest in using it in a future device. More than 50% of the respondents would like to use their mobile device as an ‘electronic wallet' to pay for, for example, retail goods and public transport services. A mobile device equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication) wireless technology would support such functionality.

Over 40% of respondents are accessing more content than a year ago. The most commonly cited reason for this is that their current device has the features that enable easier access to multimedia content. In addition, 43% of the sample had accessed live TV or video on demand (VoD) on their mobile device.

Looking forward, 82% of respondents predicted they would be accessing more or at least the same content on their mobile devices in one year's time compared to their current usage. When asked what type of mobile content they would like that they cannot or do not access now, the most popular request was to receive live TV, followed by VoD. Those interested in receiving live TV indicated they would be prepared to pay on average 5 to 8 USD per month for the service. However, when asked how much extra they would be prepared to pay for a new primary mobile device assuming it had all the features and functionality they wanted, the most common response - given by 40% of those surveyed - was nothing, and only 16% of all respondents were prepared to pay up to 25 USD for this functionality.

Kevin Burden, Mobile Device Director, ABI Research, commented: "This survey has shown that consumers on the whole are happy with the form factor of their mobile devices, and are now most interested in the available functional capabilities of these devices. Strikingly, the survey suggests that whilst consumers are willing to pay a modest premium to access a particular service, the majority are not prepared to pay an appreciable amount in terms of higher device cost for this additional functionality. This reveals the pressure on portable CE device manufacturers to deliver converged functionality without raising costs."

Chet Babla, Marcom Director, Mirics Semiconductor, added: "Wi-Fi, GPS, streamed audio and video content, NFC and live TV all require different wireless technologies to be supported in portable devices to deliver the multimedia experience that consumers want. The challenge for device developers is to support these multiple wireless technologies without significantly impacting end-product price. Innovative approaches such as software-based modems - whereby key wireless functional blocks conventionally implemented in silicon hardware are replaced with the flexibility of software - will be crucial to achieving this convergence at an acceptable cost point."

To obtain a copy of the report presentation or to arrange a more detailed discussion on the research findings, please contact mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million. For more information visit www.mirics.com.

About ABI Research
ABI Research provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of emerging trends in global connectivity. From offices in North America, Europe and Asia, ABI Research's worldwide team of experts advise thousands of decision makers through research and advisory services in seven key practice areas. Est. 1990. For more information visit www.abiresearch.com.

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Sunnyvale, CA., and Shanghai, China October 12th 2009: Mirics Semiconductor and Shanghai High Definition Digital Technology Industrial Company Ltd ("HDIC"), announce the availability of a digital TV reference design targeting the full range of portable and desktop PC devices. The reference design addresses both the standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) transmission modes supported by the Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcast (DTTB) standard. DTTB (formal reference GB20600-2006) became the mandatory digital terrestrial TV standard for Chinese broadcasters in August 2007.

The production-ready reference design is available in a USB dongle form factor, and was developed under the strategic partnership between the two companies first announced in June. The design features Mirics' FlexiRF™ chip tuner, HDIC's low power DTTB demodulator, USB interfacing and PC-based application software for audio and video playback. The dongle design enables existing personal computer platforms such as All-in-One (AIO) PCs and portable notebooks and netbooks to support DTTB-based TV reception, enabling PC users to enjoy the benefits of digital TV, and in particular the superior user experience of HD content.

Commenting on the announcement, Dr Joseph Chu, VP APAC, Mirics, said: "Mirics is extremely pleased with the rapid progress made by the two companies in developing a commercial DTTB solution for PCs so soon after the strategic collaboration was first announced. It is a strong validation of the technical and collaborative capabilities of each company." Young Dai, VP, HDIC, added: "This reference design is the first solution targeting PC platforms that supports both single-carrier and multi-carrier digital broadcasts, bringing the capability of a wider range of live TV content in SD and vivid HD to potentially millions of PC users in China and Hong Kong."

Mirics will be demonstrating the announced DTTB reference design at its booth (# CHB04) at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair being held in Hong Kong from October 13th to 16th.

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in Boston (USA), Hampshire (UK), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics recently secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

About Shanghai HDIC
Shanghai High Definition Digital Technology Industrial Corporation (HDIC) is a fabless semiconductor company focused upon developing fully standards compliant digital television terrestrial silicon chips, IP and system solutions. The company has received investment from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Venture Capital and State Development and Investment Corporation. The company is a key research and development leader and core contributor to the Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting standard (GB20600-2006).
http://www.hdigroup.net/

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Sunnyvale, CA. - September 29th, 2009: Mirics today announces it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA® GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture for the Mirics FlexiTV™ software-based receiver, a universal low-cost TV receiver can now be implemented on entry-level PCs that have CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs.

Optimum use of system processing resources is achieved by running certain FlexiTV algorithms on NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. This enables even low-cost, entry level PCs to support global TV reception using Mirics' FlexiTV technology. Since FlexiTV uses separate CUDA compute engines for video decoding, users can enjoy high quality Standard and High Definition broadcast TV reception without additional hardware. Unlike conventional PC TV receivers, FlexiTV offers a single platform which is software reconfigurable to receive free-to-air terrestrial TV regardless of regional variations.

Simon Atkinson, Mirics CEO, commented: "Mirics has significantly expanded the range of PC platforms that can support global TV reception by combining FlexiTV with the powerful NVIDIA CUDA architecture. This new innovation benefits PC OEMs with a cross platform, low-cost TV solution, and empowers consumers with the widest multi-media content choice."

Michael Steele, general manager of visual consumer solutions at NVIDIA, added: "NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs are ideal for real-time signal processing. The combination of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture and FlexiTV means low priced netbooks, notebooks and desktop PCs can deliver excellent standard and high definition PC TV viewing experiences."

Mirics' CUDA-optimised FlexiTV solution is currently sampling to selected customers, and will be demonstrated at the NVIDIA Emerging Companies Summit being held Sept. 30 to Oct 2 in San Jose, CA.

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 10th August, 2009: Mirics Semiconductor has made further strides into the netbook market by adding ISDB-T OneSeg support to its FlexiTV™ multi-standard PC TV receiver and striking agreements with leading PC TV accessory providers Quincy Digital of Korea and Skycast of Brazil. OneSeg is a valuable addition to the DVB-T, DAB, T-DMB and FM standards already supported, and its widespread adoption in Japan and Brazil makes it a natural means of content delivery for the booming netbook sector.

Selection by Quincy Digital and Skycast extends the global reach of Mirics FlexiTV, and furthers its penetration into both OEM and retail channels. Consumers in Japan, Brazil and other ISDB-T territories will now be able to enjoy TV on-the-move on their new netbook computers and ultra-thin consumer notebooks, with the added bonus of having a software upgradeable device capable of receiving TV in other geographies.

Chris Cytera, Director of Marketing at Mirics, commented: "We are delighted to be working with both Skycast and Quincy Digital as lead customers for our exciting new netbook-centric technology. These companies are innovators with proven track records, and as such are well placed to satisfy the customer base that they know so well."

Y. Won, CEO of Quincy Digital, said: "We are excited to be working with Mirics to deliver a multimode PC TV product supporting OneSeg and other TV standards. It gives our company an opportunity to offer an innovative consumer product to the very large and gadget-hungry Japanese market, in addition to other important geographies."

Thiago Henrique, CEO of Skycast, said: "The new ISDB-T network in Brazil needs receivers, and the low cost and great flexibility of the Mirics solution fits our market perfectly. We are looking forward to using FlexiTV to bring TV to mainstream Brazilian consumers on their low-cost netbooks and consumer notebooks."

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

About Quincy Digital
Quincy Digital develops digital broadcast receivers for world standard technologies. For more information see http://quincydigital.com/

About Skycast
Skycast develops digital TV hardware and software for both signal generation and reception. For more information see http://www.skycast.com.br/

Media Contacts:
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Chet Babla
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Email: press@mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 27 July 2009: Mirics Semiconductor has today announced that it is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smartphone applications by migrating its FlexiTV™ platform to the ARM® Cortex™-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors. In targeting the ARM Cortex applications processors, Mirics will enable low cost, region independent mobile TV and radio reception on media-rich phones, thereby marking Mirics' first step into the cellphone market with software-based TV and radio solutions. Smartphones represent one of the fasting growing segments within the cellphone market, and market research firm ABI Research estimates that the total market size for such devices could exceed 200 million units in 2010 alone.

Following Mirics' announcement last week of FlexiTV support for the Intel® Atom™ processor, this latest development for the ARM Cortex applications processors demonstrates Mirics' on-going commitment to enable platform agnostic broadcast content, whilst substantially reducing the cost and footprint of adding TV and radio reception.

Commenting on this latest innovation from Mirics, CEO Simon Atkinson stated: "Rapidly growing consumer demand for the widest range of media-rich content on portable devices has seen the evolution of smartphones from voice-centric devices into multi-media entertainment platforms. Mobile TV and radio are therefore content applications naturally well suited for support on smartphones. The ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors are the de-facto standard embedded applications processors for cellphones enhanced with multi-media functionality, so the architecture was the natural choice for us to target with FlexiTV."

ARM executive vice president of marketing, Ian Drew commented, "We believe that the combination of the Cortex applications processors' low power multicore architecture and NEON™ media processing engine, together with Mirics' software-based FlexiTV demodulator provides the low cost solution to the challenge of delivering multi-standard mobile TV reception on smartphones."

Mirics stated that its initial smartphone-based solutions will address the Korean and Japanese mobile TV standards - T-DMB and ISDB-T OneSeg, respectively - which have achieved by far the greatest geographic penetration. Mirics expects to sample FlexiTV solutions based upon the Cortex applications processors to lead customers in the 4th quarter of 2009 with production being ready for early 2010.

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

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Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla
Tel: +44-7739-108-648
Email: press@mirics.com

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Andrew Town,
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8429 6546.
Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Fleet, UK, 15th July 2009: Mirics Semiconductor has today expanded its FlexiTV™ technology by launching a range of mobile TV and radio applications targeted at products powered by the Intel® Atom™ CPU platform. This latest innovation brings low-cost embedded mobile TV and radio functionality to ultra-portable and low power PC products such as netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs).

First launched in 2008, FlexiTV leverages host processor-based software demodulation, bringing global broadcast reception at an unparalleled cost structure to consumer electronics (CE) devices. The FlexiTV product portfolio originally targeted notebook platforms powered by dual-core x86 CPUs, and the expansion to cover Atom-based technology is in line with the company's objective to offer the broadest range of mobile TV and radio solutions to device manufacturers and system integrators.

FlexiTV now supports the Japanese and Korean mobile TV standards - ISDB-T OneSeg and T-DMB, respectively - on PC devices featuring the Atom CPU. According to market forecasts by research house ABI Research, total OneSeg device shipments in 2010 will exceed 33 million units, whilst the equivalent figure for T-DMB is expected to be at least 12 million units, thereby offering significant commercial opportunity for FlexiTV.

In addition to mobile TV support, Mirics also announced Atom-based software demodulation support for Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) and FM radio. DAB-based audio services are experiencing growing popularity, with over nine million cumulative device shipment to date, and consumer demand is expected to grow in the coming years as various European countries implement plans for analog radio switch-off.

Commenting on the launch, Mirics CEO Simon Atkinson stated "ISDB-T and T-DMB continue to represent the most significant market opportunities for mobile TV. By delivering highly efficient software-based solutions for products powered by the Intel Atom processor, Mirics continues to expand the range of consumer computing and communications platforms that can feature embedded TV and radio at price points demanded by manufacturers and consumers, alike."

To illustrate the suitability of FlexiTV for products such as Netbooks and MIDs where maintaining long battery life is of paramount importance, Mirics stated that in the case of ISDB-T OneSeg, software demodulation running on an N270 Atom processor, consumes a CPU load of only 20%.

Mirics will sample FlexiTV solutions targeting the Atom to select partners during Q3 2009, and formally release to production in Q4 2009.

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

Media Contacts:
Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla
Tel: +44-7739-108-648
Email: press@mirics.com

Press information:
Pinnacle Marketing Communications
Andrew Town,
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8429 6546.
Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Fleet, UK, and Boston, USA, 6th July 2009: Mirics Semiconductor has appointed Jay Nunez as VP Americas and EMEA to spearhead the company's commercial growth in these two mature and lucrative regions of the world. Nunez was previously VP North American Sales and Marketing for processor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), having originally served graphics chip specialist ATI Technologies as VP World Wide OEM Sales prior to its merger with AMD.

Nunez is a highly experienced electronics industry executive with a track record of successfully implementing and executing business strategies to revenue within global corporations such as AMD, ASAT, National Semiconductor, Wavecom and Motorola Semiconductor. Commenting on the appointment, Simon Atkinson, CEO Mirics, said: "We are extremely pleased to welcome Jay to the executive team at Mirics. His wealth of commercial experience and success within the wireless, processor and electronics service industries have equipped him well to guide Mirics through the business challenges as we continue to extend the commercial reach of our hardware and software technology."

Nunez added, "I am extremely excited by the potential of Mirics' radical FlexiTVTM technology. By leveraging the latent performance of existing processor technologies within portable devices, Mirics is enabling consumer electronics manufacturers to add wireless content delivery functionality at price points previously unseen in the industry. The Americas and EMEA regions represent a large commercial opportunity for Mirics, and I am looking forward to working with the team to bring further successes."

Mirics' FlexiTVTM provides a complete system solution integrating RF and mixed signal silicon with software demodulation technology to enable global TV and radio broadcast reception in portable devices at a revolutionary price point, and has already gained commercial traction within Asia. With the appointment of Nunez, Mirics has affirmed its dedication to addressing the other geographical growth regions for its technology.

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in USA, UK, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.
www.mirics.com

Media Contacts:
Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla
Tel: +44-7739-108-648
Email: press@mirics.com

Press information:
Andrew Town,
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Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Fleet, UK, and Shanghai, China 2nd June 2009: Mirics Semiconductor and Shanghai High Definition Digital Technology Industrial Company Ltd ("HDIC"), announce a strategic partnership to enable high-definition digital TV reception on portable devices using the Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcast (DTTB) standard. DTTB - formal reference GB20600-2006 - became the mandatory digital terrestrial TV standard for Chinese broadcasters in August 2007, and all terrestrial TV receivers must comply with DTTB ahead of 2015 when analog TV broadcasts will cease in China. DTTB supports both standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) transmission modes, and free-to-air SD and HD content is already available in key Chinese cities, with major DTTB infrastructure build-out continuing across China.

Mirics and HDIC are currently developing complete reference platforms targeting DTTB-enabled personal computer platforms such as netbook and All-in-One (AIO) PC, and these solutions will integrate Mirics' FlexiRF(TM) tuner technology and HDIC's low power HD/SD dual-mode demodulators. As a rapidly growing consumer electronics device segment, netbook PCs in particular are ideally suited to support reception of digital terrestrial TV. According to ABI Research, in 2009, global netbook shipments could reach almost 35 million units.

Commenting on the collaboration, Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics, said: "Consumers are increasingly demanding the ability to access high-quality multi-media content on portable devices such as netbook PCs. By pairing Mirics' high performance - but low-power - FlexiRF tuners with HDIC's dual-mode DTTB demodulators, mobile PC users in China will soon be able to enjoy a remarkable high-definition TV viewing experience currently only available on home TV screens." Dr. Jun Sun, CEO, HDIC, added: "We are delighted to announce this cooperation with Mirics. As a leading HD/SD DTTB baseband provider in China, HDIC has already achieved notable successes in fixed DTTB applications such as set-top-box and integrated digital TV. Our partnership with Mirics utilizing HDIC's latest low power demodulators will enable us to now address the considerable potential in the portable and AIO PC segments."

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in Boston (USA), Hampshire (UK), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics recently secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.

www.mirics.com

About Shanghai HDIC
Shanghai High Definition Digital Technology Industrial Corporation (HDIC) is a fabless semiconductor company focused upon developing fully standards compliant digital television terrestrial silicon chips, IP and system solutions. The company has received investment from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Venture Capital and State Development and Investment Corporation. The company is a key research and development leader and core contributor to the Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting standard (GB20600-2006).

http://www.hdigroup.net/

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Hui Hui
Tel: +86-21-54263078-8306
Email: media@hdigroup.cn

Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla
Tel : +44-7739-108-648
Email: press@mirics.com

Press information:
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 8429 6546.
Email: mirics@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Fleet, UK, and Shanghai, China, April 7, 2009: Further to the strategic partnership announced in December 2008 between Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications, the two companies today announce the availability of an embedded PCTV solution that supports the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) mobile digital TV standard. Mirics will demonstrate the solution receiving live CMMB broadcasts on a standard netbook PC at the Intel Developers Forum in Beijing on April 8, 2009.

CMMB is the mobile TV technology backed by China's State Administration for Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). With coverage extending to 150 cities already, SARFT expects CMMB to be supported in 337 Chinese cities by the end of 2009, and have a total population coverage of 500 million by 2011. Multi-media enhanced portable PC platforms such as netbooks are ideally suited for receiving the live TV and radio content and data services that CMMB supports and for delivering to consumers on-the-go entertainment and information.

The announced embedded solution measures just 30mmx26.8mm, and has been implemented in the industry standard half mini-card format. The mini-card integrates Mirics' MSi002 FlexiRF(TM) silicon tuner and Spreadtrum's SC6600V CMMB demodulator system-on-chip. The solution features all of the CMMB hardware and software required to deliver a complete ready-to-integrate PCTV package, including the ability to support conditional access, and has been optimized for BlazeVideo's DTV video player.

Commenting on the announcement, Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics, said: "As consumers increasingly turn towards netbook PCs as their prime device for multi-media content consumption, CMMB is the ideal technology to deliver live content to such portable platforms. With the announcement of this half mini-card solution, manufacturers can now very simply embed broadcast TV into portable PC's." Dr. Leo Li, President & CEO, Spreadtrum, said: "In the short elapsed time since Spreadtrum and Mirics announced a strategic PCTV collaboration, the two companies have worked very closely to leverage the innovative features of both company's chips, and now proudly announce a commercial embedded CMMB solution targeting in particular netbooks, the fastest growing consumer electronics segment today."

The announced PCTV half mini-card platform is now available to lead customers and partners for platform integration.

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About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such as Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in Boston (USA), Hampshire (UK), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics recently secured $7 million of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22 million.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments by 2010.

For more information, please visit: www.mirics.com

About Spreadtrum Communications
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD; "Spreadtrum" or the "Company") is a fabless
semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. Spreadtrum combines its semiconductor design expertise with its software development capabilities to deliver highly-integrated baseband processors with multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum has developed its solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless products that are feature-rich and meet their cost and time-to-market requirements.

For more information, please visit: http://www.spreadtrum.com .

Spreadtrum Communications Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the expectation of SARFT's CMMB coverage in China, the effectiveness of CMMB technology to deliver live content to portable platforms and the estimation of netbooks being the fastest growing consumer electronics segment. These statements are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual market trends and the actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the rate at which the commercial deployment of CMMB technologies will grow, market acceptance of the CMMB PCTV solution and CMMB technologies, continuing competitive pressure in the semiconductor industry and the effect of such pressure on prices; unpredictable changes in technology and consumer demand for handsets; the state of and any change in the strategic partnership between Mirics and Spreadtrum; the state of and any change in Mirics's and Spreadtrum's relationships with their major customers; and changes in political, economic, legal and social conditions in China. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please consider the information contained in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC "), including the annual report on Form 20-F filed on June 30, 2008, especially the sections under "Risk Factors " and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," and such other documents that the Company may file or furnish with the SEC from time to time, including on Form 6-K. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.

Media Contacts
Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 7739 108 648. Email: press@mirics.com

Press information:
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Kathy Zhou
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Fleet UK, 23rd March, 2009: Mirics has demonstrated full interoperability of its revolutionary FlexiTVTM software receiver with CyberLink's TVEnhance, together delivering the latest high definition video content to notebook PCs. With both demodulation of the DVB-T signal and decoding of the H.264 high definition video taking place on existing notebook processors, Mirics FlexiTV has once again proven its credentials as an efficient, optimised system having minimal impact on overall system resources.

Launched in 2008, FlexiTV targets processor-based platforms such as notebook PCs, and was the world's first global standards broadcast receiver to leverage the flexibility and cost benefits of software-based demodulation. Mirics FlexiTV is the only commercially available software demodulator-based receiver conforming to applicable broadcast TV and radio specifications such as Nordig 2.0.

Chris Cytera, Product Line Director for FlexiTV, commented: "We are delighted to be working with Cyberlink to provide the best possible HDTV experience to notebook users. With terrestrial HDTV rolling out wordwide, Mirics FlexiTV plus CyberLink TVEnhance is the ideal combination for enjoying totally smooth, high quality portable HDTV on a standard consumer notebook. No other multi-standard PC TV receiver using software demodulation can deliver this kind of quality user experience."

Alice H. Chang CEO of Cyberlink, said: "We are excited to partner with Mirics to deliver unprecedented HDTV quality with minimal CPU usage on notebook PCs. The technology collaboration with Mirics FlexiTV software demodulation coupled with GPU accelerated H.264 decoder technology establishes our commitment to providing users with the ultimate TV-on-PC experience worldwide."

About Mirics
Mirics provides total system solutions for converged wireless connectivity on portable consumer electronic devices such Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. With development, support and sales operations in Boston (USA), Hampshire (UK), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics recently secured $7m of financing in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22m.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.
www.mirics.com

About CyberLink
CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs. Backed by a group of high-caliber software engineers, CyberLink owns its core codec and a number of patented technologies. CyberLink has built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, interoperable, and fast time-to-market solutions that keep our OEM partners on the leading edge. Our business partners include leaders in the PC industry: drive manufacturers, graphics-card makers, and top-5 desktop and notebook brands. Today, CyberLink's software solutions include: complete applications for Blu-ray Discs, Digital Home entertainment, TV-on-PC and human resource development. With customers spanning from multi-national corporations to small/medium-sized businesses, and from power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid and consistent growth leading to a record breaking IPO in 2000 on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). Currently, CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: 5203.TW). CyberLink's worldwide headquarters is located in Taipei. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, including Japan. For more information, please visit CyberLink's website at www.cyberlink.com.

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Chris Cytera, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com Website: www.mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 9th February 2009: Mirics FlexiTV™ has become the world's first broadcast TV receiver utilizing software demodulation to comply with the latest NorDig 2.0 specifications for digital terrestrial TV reception. Typically applied to consumer television and set-top box products, the NorDig test specifications ensure that compliant, quality products are developed for robust DVB-T signal reception. Launched in 2008, FlexiTV targets host processor-based platforms such as notebook PCs, and was the world's first global standards broadcast receiver to leverage the flexibility and cost benefits of software-based demodulation. Mirics FlexiTV is the only commercially available software demodulator-based receiver conforming to applicable broadcast TV and radio specifications.
 
FlexiTV exceeds NorDig 2.0 performance requirements on a standard consumer notebook with very modest system resource requirements. For example, a FlexiTVenabled notebook is capable of receiving live Standard-Definition DVB-T signals with just 30% CPU load. However, it is the move towards reception of HD signals that is really driving CPU resource requirements, where H.264 decoding presents a significantly greater burden than the requirements for software demodulation. Mirics FlexiTV can comfortably accommodate even the most demanding case of High Definition H.264 DVB-T reception within the resources of an entry-level dual-core x86-based PC.
 
Chris Cytera, Product Line Director for FlexiTV, commented: "Conformance with the latest NorDig 2.0 specifications is another landmark achievement for FlexiTV. Robust performance and co-existence with H.264 HD decoding are further affirmation that FlexiTV's software demodulation is the future of cost-effective universal broadcast reception for processor-based devices. The positive viewing experience that consumers have become accustomed to on their static TVs can now be enjoyed on
portable PC platforms."

 About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor is a UK based fabless semiconductor company bringing converged wireless connectivity to portable consumer electronic devices such Notebook PCs, Media Players and Cellphones. The initial focus of the company is the delivery of free-to-air broadcast services and content to portable computing and communications devices. Based in Hampshire (UK), with sales and Development operations in Boston (USA), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, Mirics has brought together a strong team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics has secured funding from an eminent investor team comprising Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. Mirics recently secured a $7m funding round in January 2009, bringing total investor financial support to $22m.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chris Cytera, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com
Website: www.mirics.com
 
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Chris King, EML, The Albany Boathouse, Lower Ham Road, Kingston, KT2 5BB. Tel: +44 (0)20 8408 8000. Email: mirics@eml.com
 

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Fleet, UK, 5th January 2009: Mirics Semiconductor today announced that it has secured $7m of financing from its existing investor team of Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. The funding is in addition to the $12m B-round announced in August 2007, and will enable Mirics to expand its commercial activities, and also accelerate further additions to its Mirics FlexiTVTM product line. Mirics FlexiTV, first announced in 2008, is the world's first commercially available software based solution for receiving global broadcast TV and radio on processor-based platforms such as notebook computers and portable media players (PMPs).

"When Mirics first announced FlexiTV in the summer of 2008, we knew the industry reaction to this disruptive technology would be very positive. In fact, the commercial progress that Mirics has made since the product launch has prompted significant expansion of our commercial team in the US and Asia, to support our rapidly growing customer base," explains Mirics CEO, Simon Atkinson. "This additional funding from our existing investors confirms their commitment and belief in the commercial prospects for Mirics' technology. It will enable Mirics to meet the customer demand for FlexiTV and also support product portfolio expansion to address newly identified market segments."

Commenting on behalf of the investor team, Marcos Battisti, Mobility Sector Director at Intel Capital, said "With FlexiTV, Mirics has demonstrated the commercial viability of a true universal broadcast receiver for portable processor-based platforms. The industry response to FlexiTV has been extremely positive, and the investors were keen to ensure Mirics had the long-term financial security to aggressively grow the commercial team and product portfolio to support customer demand. The fact that Mirics has secured this funding in such an uncertain global economic climate is testament to the strength of its technology and world-class team."
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About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chet Babla, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 7739 108 648. Email: press@mirics.com

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 Fleet, UK, and Shanghai, China 3rd December 2008: Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD; "Spreadtrum"), announce a strategic partnership focused upon delivering innovative embedded TV solutions for portable personal computer (PC) platforms that support the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.

Complete hardware and software reference platforms targeting PCTV applications are at an advanced stage of development, and utilize Mirics' ground-breaking FlexiRF(TM) integrated circuit (IC) tuner technology and Spreadtrum's innovative demodulator and decoder system-on-chip (SoC). Commenting on the collaboration, Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics, said: "CMMB is the leading broadcast mobile TV standard in China. We are very pleased to be working closely with Spreadtrum to partner Mirics' FlexiRF IC technology with Spreadtrum's advanced CMMB SoC to deliver ready-to-go solutions enabling OEM's to integrate broadcast mobile TV into notebook and sub-notebook PC's, a fast growing consumer device segment within China."

Dr Ping Wu, CEO, Spreadtrum, said: "We are delighted with this cooperation. As one of China's leading wireless baseband chipset providers, Spreadtrum is already a respected and successful innovator in the cellular handset segment. With this collaboration with Mirics, we can now address PCTV applications with reference designs that will enable manufacturers to easily integrate broadcast reception into PC's. This partnership confirms Spreadtrum's commitment to the evolution of wireless communication and multimedia technology." The companies are also collaborating on cellular handset reference designs for select OEM's and ODM's.

Availability
The CMMB PCTV reference platforms will be made available to lead customers and partners for PC platform integration from end-Q4 2008.

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An accompanying print quality image of Simon Atkinson (CEO, Mirics) and Dr Ping Wu (CEO, Spreadtrum) is available to download from:

http://www.eml.com/images/mir025.jpg 

About CMMB
For more information on China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting, please check http://www.cmmb.org.cn

About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast TV and radio reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume consumer applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

www.mirics.com

About Spreadtrum
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD; "Spreadtrum") is a fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. Spreadtrum combines its semiconductor design expertise with its software development capabilities to deliver highly-integrated baseband processors with multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum offers terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly-integrated baseband processor solutions, as well as multimedia chips, RF chips, protocol software and software application platforms. Spreadtrum has developed its solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless products that are feature-rich and meet their cost and time-to-market requirements.

For more information, please check: www.spreadtrum.com

Spreadtrum Communications Safe Harbor Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the expectation that the strategic partnership between Mirics and Spreadtrum will develop reference designs that will enable manufacturers to easily integrate broadcast reception into PCs, the commitment to the evolution of wireless communication and multimedia technology, and the anticipated timing and availability of the CMMB PCTV reference platforms. These statements are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual market trends and the actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the rate at which the commercial deployment of CMMB technologies will grow, market acceptance of the CMMB PCTV reference platforms and CMMB technologies, continuing competitive pressure in the semiconductor industry and the effect of such pressure on prices; unpredictable changes in technology and consumer demand for handsets; the state of and any change in the strategic partnership between Mirics and Spreadtrum; the state of and any change in Mirics's and Spreadtrum's relationships with their major customers; and changes in political, economic, legal and social conditions in China. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please consider the information contained in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC "), including the registration statement on Form F-1 filed on June 26, 2007, as amended, and the annual report on Form 20-F filed on June 30, 2008, especially the sections under "Risk Factors " and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, "and such other documents that the Company may file or furnish with the SEC from time to time, including on Form 6-K. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.

Media Contacts:
Spreadtrum Communications
Kathy Zhou
Tel: +86-21-5080-2727
Email: news@spreadtrum.com

Mirics Semiconductor
Chet Babla
Tel : +44-7739-108-648
Email: press@mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 30th September 2008: Mirics Semiconductor will showcase an enhanced version of its Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver - a complete RF, host interface and software demodulation solution for the notebook PC platform - at CEATEC Japan. Using the same silicon hardware that demonstrated the world's first software demodulation-based reception of DVB-T, FM, T-DMB and DAB at Computex in June, Mirics FlexiTV has taken another leap forward with support for ISDB-T with just a software upgrade. The new ISDB-T functionality adds nothing to PC TV receiver's bill of material (BOM) cost, which remains below $5 for a PC TV mini-card solution. The same mini-card design can be used globally, resulting in unprecedented economy of scale for PC OEMs and ODMs.

Mirics has chosen the CEATEC exhibition for its ISDB-T launch because of the large importance of the Japanese market, whose consumers often set new trends in the use of portable and multimedia technologies. Mirics will be demonstrating Mirics FlexiTV on stand 4B13 during CEATEC, receiving live off-air Full-Seg broadcasts, and displaying demodulated One-Seg channels from this received content. Mirics FlexiTV's capability to receive and demodulate ISDB-T Full-Seg will also be demonstrated.

Mirics Semiconductor is the leading provider of global broadcast silicon and software receiver solutions. By implementing software demodulation running on a host processor, Mirics FlexiTV leverages the power and system memory of today's PC platforms. This allows portable reception of global broadcasts without multiple silicon-based demodulators or additional system memory. Mirics FlexiTV also provides a simple standards upgrade path via software re-configurability, thereby enabling future-proofing against emerging or variant broadcast standards.

Mirics FlexiTV consists of the MSi3101 chipset and a unique software demodulator running on the PC main CPU. The MSi3101 combines Mirics' proven low-power multi-band reception technology supporting bands from 150KHz (LW) to 1.9 GHz (L-band), and an interface chip which converts the tuner output into digital form suitable for transmission over a USB interface. The digitized RF signal can then be demodulated and displayed by existing PC system resources, removing the need for a demodulator IC.

"Japanese companies frequently set the standard for innovations in consumer electronics," commented Chris Cytera, Mirics FlexiTV Product Line Director. "CEATEC is the perfect platform to showcase Mirics FlexiTV and capture the imagination of these companies by highlighting how our breakthrough will enable TV and radio reception to become a standard feature on all notebook PCs. Thanks to the ISDB-T software upgrade, Japanese consumers can look forward to watching their favorite free-to-air TV content on Mirics FlexiTV-enabled notebook PCs in the very near future."

About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chris Cytera, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com
Website: www.mirics.com

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Chris King, EML, The Albany Boathouse, Lower Ham Road, Kingston, KT2 5BB. Tel: +44 (0)20 8408 8000. Email: mirics@eml.com

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Fleet, UK, 27th September 2008: AzureWave Technologies, the leading provider of PC TV receiver solutions, has selected Mirics FlexiTV™ for the development of a new generation of PC TV receivers. Using Mirics' unique multi-standard hardware and software-based demodulation technology, reception of DVB-T, DAB and FM content will now be possible on notebooks using a receiver with both a lower cost and smaller size than current single-standard PC TV solutions. AzureWave's Mirics FlexiTVTM-based embedded PC TV solution will be available on consumer notebooks in 2009.

AzureWave has many years of experience in developing PC TV receivers for multiple TV standards in all regions of the globe. With its track record of success in wireless and PC technologies, AzureWave is ideally placed to roll out TV and radio reception on a broad range of consumer notebooks.

Mirics Semiconductor is the leading provider of global broadcast silicon and software receiver solutions. By implementing software demodulation running on a host processor, Mirics FlexiTVTM leverages the power and system memory of today's PC platforms. This allows nomadic reception of global broadcasts without multiple silicon-based demodulators or additional system memory. Mirics FlexiTV also provides a simple standards upgrade path via software re-configurability, thereby enabling future-proofing against emerging or variant broadcast standards.

Patrick Lin, Engineering Director at AzureWave commented: "Many geographical regions require reception of multiple TV and radio standards, which can increase the cost of adding TV and radio on notebooks. But making use of the host CPU, which is otherwise idling, greatly reduces the system cost and form factor. It also substantially widens the number of standards that can be supported with just one hardware platform, bringing economy of scale to our customers."

"We are delighted to be working with AzureWave, a highly successful provider of PC TV solutions," said Chris Cytera, Mirics FlexiTV Product Line Director. "AzureWave has a reputation for innovation and embracing new technology in order to bring the best possible user experience to consumers at an attractive price point. Mirics FlexiTV will enable AzurWave to raise the bar for multi-standard broadcast reception on notebooks, increasing their appeal as consumer-centric products."

About AzureWave

Established in April 2005, AzureWave Technologies Inc. is a worldwide leading provider of wireless networking and image processing solutions. Our technologies range from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WiMAX, UWB, and GPS to digital TV and digital camera modules. AzureWave products have been widely adopted in personal computers, mobile phones, networking products, consumer electronics as well as personal mobile devices. We are devoted to providing advanced technology development, professional manufacturing and complete software services. AzureWave is committed to providing the most innovative products which allow consumers to embrace digital entertainment with ease.
www.azurewave.com

About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.
www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chris Cytera, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612888. Email: press@mirics.com
Website: www.mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 3rd September 2008: Mirics Semiconductor announces the immediate availability of a complete consumer radio module platform for its FlexiRFTM solution, addressing FM, DAB, DAB+, DMB-A and DRM standards. Measuring just 60mm x 55mm, the platform features Mirics' MSi002 FlexiRF integrated circuit (IC) and integrates all necessary active and passive components, including a multi-standard demodulator IC, needed to deliver a complete analog and digital broadcast radio receiver module. Mirics will be demonstrating the FlexiRF-based radio reference design at IBC in Amsterdam during the 12th-16th September in Hall 6, stand A29.

Chet Babla, Product Line Director, Mirics said: "We are extremely pleased to announce this consumer radio reference design. By leveraging the multi-standard, multi-band RF capability of Mirics FlexiRF technology, this reference platform delivers a highly integrated, low cost RF-toaudio solution for consumer radio manufacturers, supporting existing and newer global radio standards. In particular, this module drastically reduces the cost of adding DRM functionality into today's consumer radios."

The reference radio platform is available for customer evaluation and integration now.

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About Mirics FlexiRF
Mirics has developed a reconfigurable RF tuner architecture called FlexiRFTM that enables multi-standard broadcast reception on portable consumer electronics devices. This reconfigurable architecture ensures the optimal combination of sensitivity, selectivity, signal handling and power dissipation, all delivered with single-standard size and cost efficiency.

More information is available from:
http://www.mirics.com/technology.php?navid=30

About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chet Babla, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 7739 108 648. Email: press@mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 3rd September 2008: Mirics Semiconductor announces its collaboration with Luxoft, the largest provider of IT services in Central & Eastern Europe. Following the successful launch of the Mirics FlexiTV^TM broadcast receiver platform at Computex earlier this year, Mirics has been working with Luxoft to develop Microsoft Windows and Linux operating system (OS) drivers that help easily integrate Mirics FlexiTV into PC platforms. Mirics will be demonstrating live broadcast reception using the Mirics FlexiTV OS solution at IBC in Amsterdam 12th-16th September in Hall 6, stand A29.

Mirics and Luxoft's Windows OS solution supports XP and Vista, and complies with Microsoft's broadcast driver architecture (BDA), thereby delivering a standard interface for middleware, media decoders and application software. The additional Linux OS solution is ideally suited to mobile PC platforms such as sub-notebooks, mobile internet devices (MID) and ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) platforms.

Commenting on the partnership, Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics said: "In June this year, Mirics revealed its ground-breaking universal broadcast receiver technology for PC platforms to the world. Today, our OS solution, developed in collaboration with Luxoft, demonstrates that Mirics FlexiTV is readily integrated into standard PC platforms, enabling cost-effective TV reception for PC users globally."

Michael Friedland, EVP, Luxoft, commented: "Luxoft is excited to be a part of Mirics' universal broadcast reception vision. By combining Luxoft's driver architecture expertise for PC platforms with the Mirics FlexiTV broadcast receiver, PC OEM's and ODM's now have an off-the-shelf TV solution for today's PC platforms."

The Mirics FlexiTV OS solution will be available to lead customers and partners in Q4 2008.

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About Mirics FlexiTV
The Mirics FlexiTV^TM receiver enables reception of global analogue and digital broadcast standards on processor based platforms such as notebook computers. Demodulation of the received signal runs in software on the host processor for maximum flexibility. Mirics FlexiTV solutions comprise a host-based software demodulator and a SmartTuner. The SmartTuner performs multi-band RF tuning and ‘smart' digital interfacing. By leveraging the processing power of today's processor platforms, Mirics FlexiTV enables broadcast radio and TV reception on PC platforms without requiring silicon-based demodulators or additional system memory.

More information is available from
http://www.mirics.com/technology.php?navid=50

About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

www.mirics.com

About Luxoft
Luxoft is an emerging global leader in R&D and product engineering services that helps technology vendors around the world to develop cutting edge products and solutions and take them to market faster. Luxoft's success is rooted in the deep technology expertise and domain knowledge, particularly in the areas of telecommunications, e-commerce and finance. Luxoft is characterized by its strong culture of engineering excellence and innovation. Among Luxoft's satisfied customers are such market leaders as IBM, Alcatel, Nortel Networks, Avaya, Sabre, and others. Luxoft offers global delivery capability through its network of state-of-the-art delivery centers in North America, Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia.

www.luxoft.com

Further information:
Chris Cytera, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 612 888. Email: press@mirics.com

Press information:
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Fleet, UK, 24th June 2008: Mirics Semiconductor has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Dr Joseph Chu as VP Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Chu will be responsible for developing Mirics' global broadcast receiver business in Asia Pacific.

Chu has over 20 years semiconductor industry experience, the past 15 focused on sales and marketing roles within the Asia region. He has held senior positions within global corporations, including ST Microelectronics Telecom Segment (formerly Alcatel Microelectronics), where he headed the Wireless Infrastructure Business Unit based in Shanghai, and Harris Semiconductor (now Intersil), where he was responsible for sales and marketing for the Central Asia region. Additionally, Chu has held Asia-based commercial management positions at AT&T, Vishay Inc. and IDT Inc.

"Joseph has great experience of building pre- and post-sales support infrastructure for semiconductor companies within Asia," said Mirics CEO Simon Atkinson, "and this will be invaluable to Mirics as commercial opportunities continue to grow in the APAC region for our innovative products. By locating our head of Asia Pacific business in the region, Mirics can ensure it builds the best local support team and channels to market to respond quickly to customer and partner needs."

Chu commented, "This is an exciting time for me to join Mirics. The company's FlexiRF™ poly-band tuners and recently announced Mirics FlexiTV™ platform for notebook PCs deliver excellent solutions for Mirics to win and grow business in the Asia Pacific region. In particular, Taiwan and China will be the major initial focus, and over the coming quarter, I will be growing the technical, sales and distribution teams in the region to further support our customers and partners."

In addition to the appointment of Chu, Mirics also recently appointed field applications engineers in Shanghai, China and Seoul, Korea.

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About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chet Babla, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 7739 108 648. Email: press@mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 28th May 2008: Mirics Semiconductor announces the Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver, a complete RF, host interface and software demodulation solution for the PC platform. Mirics FlexiTV™ enables reception of all global analog and digital broadcast standards (e.g. FM, DVB-T, ATSC, DTMB), to become a standard feature on all notebook PCs. Mirics FlexiTV™ also enables a sub-$5 bill of materials (BOM) for a complete PCTV MiniCard, allowing manufacturers to develop a single broadcast receiver for global deployment, thereby benefiting from simplified manufacturing logistics and substantial economies of scale.

Mirics has combined its multi-standard RF tuner capability with its algorithmic expertise to develop the world’s first universal antenna-to-LCD broadcast receiver solution. By implementing software demodulation running on a host processor, Mirics FlexiTV™ leverages the power and abundant system memory of today’s PC platforms. This allows nomadic reception of global analog and digital broadcasts without requiring multiple silicon-based demodulators or additional system memory. In addition to reducing system cost and silicon real estate, the Mirics FlexiTV™ solution provides an easy standards upgrade path via software re-configurability, enabling future-proofing against emerging or variant broadcast standards.

Mirics FlexiTV™ solutions comprise a host-based software demodulator paired with a ‘SmartTuner’ which performs the multi-band RF tuning and digital interfacing to the host. The MSi3101 is the first in a series of SmartTuner products, and combines Mirics’ proven MSi001 poly-band tuner and the MSi2500 USB interface chip. The MSi001 features Mirics’ unique FlexiRF™ tuner architecture enabling low-power multi-band reception from 150KHz (LW) to 1.9 GHz (L-band). The MSi2500 integrates analog to digital conversion, MSi001-optimised digital signal processing, a control host and standard High Speed USB2.0 connectivity. Since Mirics’ solutions are designed with a detailed understanding of the challenges of ‘real world’ signal reception, product developers are assured ample margin to the key standards-based specifications, thereby delivering production margin and ensuring a positive Consumer experience.

Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics comments: “Mirics FlexiTV™ enables a truly flexible processor-based solution for PC mini-cards, dongles and ultimately motherboards, supporting reception of global TV and radio whilst simultaneously reducing the cost and size challenges of supporting multi-standard reception. Through Mirics FlexiTV™ we’re providing Consumers with the ability to enjoy established global free-to-air and mobile broadcast content. Broadcast technology is complementary to other delivery mechanisms such as IP or cellular, and allows Consumers to enjoy live media content without the potential constraint of cellular channel capacity or access to a wired internet connection. We believe that Mirics FlexiTV™ is the enabling solution that will see TV and radio reception, a compelling consumer offering, becoming a standard feature on all notebook PCs.”

The Mirics FlexiTV™ solution will be demonstrated by invitation at Computex Taipei in Taiwan from June 3rd to June 7th. The Mirics FlexiTV™ solution is priced at $3 in volume, and comprises Mirics’ SmartTuner and the host-based demodulation software. Mirics FlexiTV™ is now sampling to select Mirics partners.

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About Mirics
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF silicon and software solutions to bring nomadic global broadcast reception to portable and PC platforms. Founded in April 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong development and operations team with extensive experience in delivering high performance integrated circuits and algorithmic IP into high volume wireless, broadcast and cellular applications.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. In August 2007 the company closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond Venture Partners.

Based upon projections from analysts such as IDC and Gartner, Mirics expects the PC TV market to exceed 32 million shipments (OEM + retail) by 2010.

www.mirics.com

Further information:
Chet Babla, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 7739 108 648. Email: press@mirics.com
Website: www.mirics.com

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Mirics Semiconductor, a UK-based provider of innovative silicon devices for the mobile broadcast receiver market, is partnering with leading Korean Semiconductor distributor I&C Microsystems. I&C will support Mirics’ sales efforts in Asia, helping the company to exploit business opportunities for its advanced universal broadcast receiver technology in Korea’s domestic DMB mobile TV market and the DVB-H/T module export market.

I&C, which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, is the second new company to join Mirics' global distributor network in the last 12 months, following ELJ’s appointment in Japan. I&C was specifically chosen for its strong technical support and established channels into the volumeconsumer electronics market.

“Korea is a relatively mature market for mobile TV and houses some of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones and other portable devices,” explained Simon Atkinson, CEO,Mirics. “With our tuners we have phenomenally strong technology and by partnering with I&Cwe now have the commercial connections we need to establish fruitful and long-term businessrelationships with some of Korea’s top technology companies."

"We are very pleased to be working with such a fast-growing and exciting UK company," saidE.S Choi, President & CEO, I&C Microsystems. "DMB is popular in the domestic Koreanmarket, integrated into products like navigation devices and mobile phones. There are also anumber of potential customers based in Korea, exporting DVB-H/T and ISDB-T modules. AsMirics’ support all these standards with a single competitive device, we have already seen greatinterest in the technology."

Mirics’ MSi001 and MSi002 tuners enable the development of high performance receiver solutions for cost and size sensitive consumer electronics applications including cellular handsets, portable radios, PMPs, notebook and desktop PCs, PDAs and USB TV dongles. The tuners offer high performance across the entire frequency spectrum from LW to L-band, delivering global digital and analogue terrestrial broadcast reception in multiple broadcast standards including DVB-H, ISDB-T (1-, 3- & 13-seg), T-DMB, MediaFLO, DAB, DRM, AM and FM. The devices’ unique FlexiMode™ architecture allows multiband, multi-mode products to be developed, meaning OEMs can leverage the cost benefits of a platform-based product strategy by only requiring a single tuner for multiple product applications. Performance is delivered without sacrificing the key requirements battery powered consumer electronics devices: low power consumption, small solution footprint and low solution cost.

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About Mirics

Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a start-up RF and mixed signal fabless semiconductor company delivering innovative solutions for the mobile broadcast receiver market segment. Founded in 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong silicon development team with extensive experience in RF technology, wireless/algorithms, IP, silicon delivery and system architecture. Mirics’ first commercial product, the MSI001, is the world’s first true polyband tuner and represents the most technologically advanced product of its type.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. The company has recently closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond. Operating in portable and mobile broadcast receivers, a market segment that is conservativel expected to exceed $1 billion by 2010, Mirics is well positioned to gain an important first mover advantage in this rapidly emerging market segment. www.mirics.com

About I&C Microsystems

In concert with world’s prominent semiconductor and related companies, I&C launched the business to make domestic electronics/telecommunications field advanced through providing leading technologies include semiconductors, software solutions to Digital Consumer Electronics/Telecommunications industry, R&D institutes in Korea. Not only providing product and solutions, I&C is managing FPGA Design Service Center and Training Center to support customers. I&C will do best to provide customers with high quality products along with prompt services as has done in the past. I&C’s goal is to become a leading solution provider of hightech products nd technologies which enable customers to reduce developing cost, risk, and time to market.
www.inc.co.kr

Further information

Ralph Weir, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51

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Fleet, UK, 7th January 2008: Mirics Semiconductor, a UK based provider of innovative reconfigurable RF solutions for terrestrial broadcast reception, today announced the addition of the MSi002 poly-band tuner IC to its product family. The MSi002 tuner features an industry standard I2C control interface to provide support for legacy single and multi standard demodulators ICs. By using innovative design techniques Mirics has engineered the MSi002 to deliver high performance broadcast receiver solutions for consumer electronics applications, including cellular handsets, portable radios, PMPs, notebook PCs, and USB TV dongles. The device complements Mirics’ ground breaking MSi001 tuner which targeted new and next generation demodulator ICs, which typically feature an SPI 3-wire control interface.

Designed in a mature, low cost SiGe process, the MSi002 tuner offers high performance across the entire terrestrial broadcast spectrum, from 150KHz (LW) to 1.9 GHz (L-band). It delivers global digital and analogue reception of multiple standards, including DVB-H, ISDB-T (1, 3 & 13 seg), T-DMB, MediaFLO, DAB, DRM, AM and FM. The MSi002’s Fleximode architecture also allows multiband, multi-mode products to be developed, meaning OEMs can leverage the cost benefits of a platform-based product strategy by only requiring a single tuner for multiple product applications. Additionally, since all Mirics’ tuners are designed with a detailed understanding of the challenges of ‘real world’ signal reception, product developers are assured ample margin to the key standards-based RF specifications, thereby delivering OEM production margin and also ensuring a positive Consumer experience.

Ralph Weir, VP marketing, Mirics commented: “With the introduction of the MSi002, Mirics provides high performance multi-band tuner support for current and next-generation demodulator products. This performance is delivered without sacrificing the key requirements for portable consumer electronics devices: low power consumption, small solution footprint and low solution cost.”

The MSi002 is available now for partner and customer evaluation and system integration, and will be production released in the first quarter of 2008. The device is supplied with an evaluation board and control software for performance testing, and detailed driver support is available for

Demodulator vendors. Reference designs with select demodulator IC’s are also available for

detailed system evaluation.

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About Mirics

Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a start-up RF and mixed signal fabless semiconductor company delivering innovative solutions for the mobile broadcast receiver market segment. Founded in 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong silicon development team with extensive experience in RF technology, wireless/algorithms, IP, silicon delivery and system architecture.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. The company has recently closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond.

Operating in portable and mobile broadcast receivers, a market segment that is conservatively expected to exceed $1 billion by 2010, Mirics is well positioned to gain an important first mover advantage in this rapidly emerging market segment.

www.mirics.com



Further information:

Ralph Weir, Mirics Semiconductor, Oakmere, Barley Way, Ancells Business Park, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UT. Tel: +44 (0) 7796 307945. Email: ralph.weir@mirics.com Website: www.mirics.com



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Fleet, UK & Beijing, China, 3rd September 2007: CDNSE and Mirics have worked together to create volume solution WR608 for the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) market, and will demonstrate these solutions with Thomson at IBC - the internationally renowned broadcasting and media exhibition.

The WR608 is a portable multi-function digital radio receiver platform designed for DRM, FM and AM applications. The highly integrated NewStar WR608 platform enables aggressive bill of materials (BOM) cost reduction and rich, exciting features to simplify the design of mobile digital radio products. An integrated NewStar RCSS® engine provides the capability of deploying various kinds of digital radio technologies in one platform. The software-defined RCSS® engine makes implementing multiple digital broadcasting standards in one platform possible.

The Mirics MSI001 poly-band tuner provides the RF for CDNSE's WR608 DRM solutions. With coverage from the low AM frequencies right through to high L-band, the MSI001 allows creation of radios which support DRM along with other radio standards - FM, DAB/DMB or HD-Radio. The MSI001’s wide frequency coverage supports FM globally. Even TV standards like T-DMB or DVB-H can be included in products using the MSI001.

Simon Atkinson, CEO of Mirics, commented, "We're delighted to be working with CDNSE on these class-leading products, and look forward to working together for good success in the Chinese and export markets for DRM radio." Haochun Liu of CDNSE said, "The Mirics MSI001 provides a flexible RF platform for our radio products, and has many features which will empower our advanced product development plans."

In addition to low power and low cost (enabling high volume battery-powered products) benefits, the MSI001 has many features supporting DRM / DAB - including a very fast synthesizer subsystem. This gives more opportunity for power saving, plus the ability to "sniff" other frequencies or standards during DRM or DAB's guard bands - which is ideal for simulcast and other advanced systems.

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About DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale)

DRM is a digital radio standard in the AM bands. This allows digital quality to be broadcast over very long range - making it ideal for broadcasting to large regions, or as an infill service extending the coverage of DAB/HD-Radio systems.

While it is early in DRM's deployment, it looks set to replace AM radio in much of Europe, plus Russia, China, and Africa. It has also received FCC approval for deployment in the US.



About CDNSE

Chengdu NewStar Electronics Company (CDNSE) is located at Chengdu High Tech Zone, is a certified “High Tech Company” by Sichuan Bureau of Science and Technology. NSE focuses on the design and development of multiple-function and advanced cost-performance ratio solutions of communication systems using OFDM technologies. Based on the idea of forward-looking products, advanced technologies and full heart services, all CDNSE’s employees wish to work with friends in the world in order to speed the transition from analog audio broadcast to digital audio broadcast using DRM technology.



About Mirics Semiconductor

Mirics Semiconductor Inc. is a start-up RF and mixed signal fabless semiconductor company delivering innovative solutions for the mobile broadcast receiver market segment. Founded in 2004 and based in Hampshire, UK, Mirics has brought together a strong silicon development team with extensive experience in RF technology, wireless/algorithms, IP, silicon delivery and system architecture. Mirics’ first commercial product, the MSI001, is the world’s first true poly-band tuner and represents the most technologically advanced product of its type.

Mirics was originally backed with Series A funding from Pond Venture Partners, Europe's largest early-stage technology fund. The company has recently closed a $12m Series B round securing backing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Acacia Capital Partners, and further investment from Pond.

Operating in portable and mobile broadcast receivers, a market segment that is conservatively expected to exceed $1 billion by 2010, Mirics is well positioned to gain an important first mover advantage in this rapidly emerging market segment.

www.mirics.com

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Fleet, UK, 6th August 2007: Mirics Semiconductor, a UK-based provider of innovative solutions for the mobile broadcast receiver market, today announced the addition of Acacia Capital Partners to its $12m second round of funding. Mirics closes the round with Acacia Capital Partners joining fellow investors Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners. The funding will enable Mirics to build on its success over the last 12-months, accelerating product roll-out plans and strengthening its world class engineering team.

“Thanks to the additional investment from Acacia Capital Partners and the support of our existing investors, we now have the financial support and global commercial connections to drive the company forward and capitalize on our strong technology,” explains Simon Atkinson, CEO, Mirics Semiconductor. “As well as helping us to accelerate the roll-out of our product roadmap and expand our talented engineering team, the additional investment will enable us to extend the reach of our commercial and customer support organizations. This will ensure that Mirics can provide the best possible support to the many leading technology companies we’re already connecting with across Europe, the
U.S. and Asia.”

“Addressing the technological challenges involved in the implementation of mobile audio and video is a key industry focus,” comments Chris Smart, General Partner, Acacia Capital Partners. “Mirics has technological innovations which we believe can help the global market segment for broadcast-enabled mobile handsets and portable devices to evolve and reach its full potential over the next few years.”

Mirics’ FlexiMode technology enables reconfigurable RF devices with little or no penalty compared to the inflexible, single-standard products they replace. This enables consumer products to be created for the world market, and can greatly reduce the cost and size of multi-functional devices. Mirics’ first product, the MSI001, is the world’s most advanced “Universal Broadcast Tuner”, enabling designers of mobile phones, PMPs, PNDs and other portable devices to easily add a single RF solution which implements the plethora of mobile broadcast standards in use worldwide – rendering redundant all speculation of which standard will become dominant. The MSI001 achieves this without compromising the cost, power or performance of today’s advanced single-standard solutions.

During its investment round Mirics was advised by Matt Rogers from technology investment banking company GP Bullhound.


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