Frontier Silicon: TV Just Got Smaller!

Frontier Silicon: TV Just Got Smaller!

LONDON, February 9/PRNewswire/ -- At 3GSM Frontier Silicon, the market leader in solutions for digital
radio and mobile TV, is launching their latest chip, Kino 2, bringing TV to
smaller phones with longer battery life and lower cost. Kino 2 is the next
step in the company's mobile TV roadmap already in use in TV enabled mobile
phones from Samsung

Kino 2 is the second generation solution for T-DMB mobile TV from
Frontier Silicon. Kino is the only available T-DMB receiver with the
flexibility to take care of the diverse requirements of networks worldwide.

Kino 1 was the first T-DMB baseband to ship into commercially available
handsets and is now successfully shipping in the Samsung B2300 which is the
top selling T-DMB mobile phone in Korea, and later this year it will be used
in products for mobile TV launches in Germany, China, India and Norway.

SMALLER, LONGER BATTERY LIFE, CHEAPER AND DIGITAL RADIO

- Kino 2 delivers significant reductions in size, power consumption and
cost compared to earlier generations of T-DMB solutions. It slashes power
consumption in half resulting in longer battery life; reduces overall system
cost and reduces system size by more than 40%, enabling mobile TV in smaller,
slimmer phones.

- Kino 2 is a true multi-mode device with built in flexibility through
software customization, supporting all T-DMB variants as well as DAB and
DAB-IP in a single chip. The flexibility offered by Kino 2 enables advanced
features such as conditional access and data services to be implemented in
software. When combined with the multi-band capability of the Apollo silicon
tuner, handset vendors can produce mobile TV featured devices that are
compatible with the requirements of all T-DMB markets worldwide.

- Kino 2 provides full support for DAB Digital Radio. With Kino 2 a
mobile phone manufacture is able to offer consumers a product which can be
used to enjoy high quality TV and radio services.

- The Kino architecture has been successfully integrated with a media
processor from Texas Instruments in mass production mobile phones and it has
now been integrated in a complete T-DMB module with the Nomadik media
processor from STMicroelectronics. These platforms benefit mobile TV
manufacturers by reducing development time and cost.

MOBILE TV ON AN EXCITING NEW WAVE OF POCKET SIZED GADGETS

Kino 2 also enables new types of products in non cellular markets,
bringing mobile TV and DAB into any gadget with any display and a speaker.
Such products could be pocket TVs, USB dongles, Personal Media Players,
Notebook computers, Portable gaming devices and in-car media devices.

PROVEN TECHNOLOGY

Anthony Sethill, Frontier Silicon CEO adds

"The Kino product line is based on proven technology that has already
shipped in 3 million digital radio products worldwide. This experience
de-risks T-DMB product development for our customers and gets them to
production in the shortest possible time."

"Frontier Silicon is investing heavily to continually innovate in the
mobile TV market enabling manufacturers to bring interesting and attractive
features to mobile phones and other innovative consumer devices. Being able
to offer the complete T-DMB chipset, RF, baseband and software, is the
foundation for our strong roadmap of new mobile TV chipsets."

FRONTIER SILICON

Frontier Silicon is the biggest and most widely used provider of
semiconductor solutions for digital Mobile TV and digital radio

Frontier Silicon uses MetaTM and UCCTM intellectual property from
Imagination Technologies.

Frontier Silicon are exhibiting in Hall 1, Stand D153,

Source: Frontier Silicon Ltd

Contact Frontier Silicon: Katja Marcuslund, Head of Marketing, Tel: +44-7795-167-570, Email: Katja.marcuslund@frontier-silicon.com; Anthony Sethill, CEO, Tel: +44-(0)-1923-474200

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