Haier Demonstrated High-Definition Television Integrated With Metalink's 802.11n WLANPlus at SINOCES

Haier Demonstrated High-Definition Television Integrated With Metalink's 802.11n WLANPlus at SINOCES

Metalink's WLANPlus Enables the Wireless Distribution of HD Video Streaming With Wireline Quality Throughout the Home

QINGDAO, China, and YAKUM, Israel, July 10/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK), a provider of high-performance wireless and
wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, today announced that it
successfully demonstrated the integration of its WLANPlus(TM) 802.11n-draft
compliant chip-set into Haier's high definition television sets at the
SINOCES show in Qingdao, China, from July 7th-10th, 2006. Haier Corporation
is the world's fourth largest home appliance manufacturer and the leading
Chinese manufacturer of household electrical appliances. The joint
demonstration featured the use of a WLANPlus-based wireless network to
deliver multiple high-definition video streams to Haier HDTVs placed in
different rooms, simulating a home environment.

Metalink's WLANPlus, an 802.11n-draft compliant chip-set family, is
optimized to address the needs of the consumer electronics market. Featuring
full support for the demanding optional specifications of the 802.11n-draft
standard, Metalink's WLANPlus technology was designed to be a key enabler of
high-definition video streaming applications throughout the home for a broad
range of products such as Residential Gateways, DTV, HDTV, Set-Top Boxes,
Media Adaptors and Digital Video Recorders (DVR).

Haier is now working with Metalink to incorporate its WLANPlus
technology into Haier's next-generation television sets, DVRs, DVDs and other
consumer electronics products.

"By integrating Haier and Metalink technologies, we have become the first
to achieve the 'holy grail' of our industry -- wireless delivery of multiple
HDTV streams to TV sets throughout the home at wireline quality," said
Patrick Tam, Metalink's director of sales. "We are proud to join this
world-leading company in establishing a new industry standard, an achievement
which secures the leadership position of both companies in the home
entertainment arena."

About SINOCES

As the most influential and potential professional fair in consumer
electronics industry in China, SINOCES serves as a window for consumer
electronics companies to show their new products and new technologies, as
well as an excellent platform for the companies to model their name brands
and spread their images.

Under the theme of "3C Convergence & Seamless Life", SINOCES influxes the
most advanced consumer electronics technology, the most progressive consumer
electronics products, and the most well-known top consumer electronics
companies, in order to set up a perfect platform for products exhibition and
technology exchanges for domestic and overseas exhibitors. In particular, the
successful cooperation between SINOCES and CES, the world largest consumer
electronics show, which promotes its reputation and impact greatly, further
strengthens its status in consumer electronics industry in China even in
Asia, and takes an active influence to the development of consumer
electronics industry globally.

The 2005 SINOCES totaled an area of 26500 square meters, and over had 310
companies participant. The great fair has attracted 41,000 specialized
visitors, including more than 4000 overseas purchasers. Many world top 500
companies and lots of distinguished consumer electronics name brands from
China and abroad were invited to present. Purchasers of the exhibition
covered large-chain consumer electronics companies, well-known top
enterprises, high-level consumer electronics industry managers, and
transnational purchasers, nearly all over the world. For more information
please visit: http://www.sinoces.com/

About Metalink

Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK) is a leading provider of high performance
wireless and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions. Metalink's
WLAN and DSL technologies are designed to enable true broadband connectivity
in every home, and its products revolutionize the broadband experience by
facilitating the convergence of telecommunication, networking and
entertainment.

Metalink aims to redefine the home broadband experience by introducing
WLANPlus(TM) - a high-throughput wireless LAN technology, 5-10 times faster
than currently available wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g technologies. Featuring
MIMO technology adopted by the 802.11n draft standardization, WLANPlus
enables room-to-room networking of multiple high-definition video streams.

WLANPlus has already been adopted by major consumer electronics
semiconductor companies, and has also been designed into advanced products by
worldwide leading manufacturers.

Metalink's DSL products offer service providers a cost-effective network
upgrade to support triple-play services. Using Metalink's VDSL technologies
operators can deliver fiber-like speeds over existing copper infrastructure.
Metalink's chipsets are deployed in millions of DSL lines by leading service
providers worldwide.

Metalink is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Yakum,
Israel. The company has subsidiaries in Atlanta (US), South Korea, and Japan
as well as offices in China. Further information is available at
http://www.metalinkbb.com

About WLANPlus(tm)

The WLANPlus family consists of the company's MtW8170 baseband device and
the MtW8150 radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC). A combination of
features enables Metalink's WLANPlus family to deliver multiple HDTV streams
to any location within a radius of 100 feet, while maintaining full QoS
performance. Innovative packet-aggregation techniques boost media access
control (MAC) efficiency with double the effective throughput of other
solutions. The inclusion of 2x3 real Multiple-In Multiple-Out (real MIMO)
technology further improves throughput and QoS, and the use of sophisticated
channel-bonding and antenna-loading techniques in the 5 GHz frequency band
provide critical additional video-distribution performance.

The WLANPlus chipset also includes a full implementation of an integrated
lower and upper MAC, reducing dramatically the required processing power and
memory allocation from the host application processor. This simplifies the
integration with consumer electronics devices and reduces the total product
cost. Additionally, Advanced Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) forward
error-correction (FEC) coding significantly boosts coverage range and signal
robustness as compared to previous approaches. The chipset also fully
supports 802.11i security features and the 802.11e QoS standard, both of
which are critical for high-priority voice and video services.

This press release contains "forward looking" information within the
meaning of the United States securities laws that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in the forward looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements are set
forth from time to time in Metalink's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including Metalink's Annual Report in Form F-20. Readers
are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The
Company undertakes no obligation to republish or revise forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrences of unanticipated events. The Company cannot guarantee
future results, events, and levels of activity, performance, or achievements.

Contact:
Mor Abraham
Marketing Communications Manager
Metalink Ltd.
Tel: +972-9-9605406
Fax: +972-9-9605544
amor@metalinkbb.com

Yongxin Chi
Haier Corporation
Tel: +86-532-88938539
Fax: +86-532-88938576
hrkj@haier.com
chiyongxin@service.haier.com

Source: Metalink Ltd

Contact: Mor Abraham, Marketing Communications Manager, Metalink Ltd., Tel: +972-9-9605406, Fax: +972-9-9605544, amor@metalinkbb.com . Yongxin Chi, Haier Corporation, Tel: +86-532-88938539, Fax: +86-532-88938576, hrkj@haier.com, chiyongxin@service.haier.com

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