IGRS and Metalink Collaborate to Provide Next-Generation Wireless HDTV Decoder Platform for Major TV Vendors

IGRS and Metalink Collaborate to Provide Next-Generation Wireless HDTV Decoder Platform for Major TV Vendors

IGRS, With Member Companies Comprising Over 80% of China's TV Market, Selects Metalink's WLANPlus(TM) 802.11n Chipset for its HDTV Decoder Platform

BEIJING and YAKUM, Israel, July 9/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IGRS, the Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing working group,
and Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK), a provider of high-performance
wireless and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, today
announced that they are working together to provide an advanced High
Definition (HD) TV Decoder Platform for wireless home networks. The platform
will be used by all TV manufacturers who are members of IGRS, which together
account for more than 84% of all televisions sold in China.

IGRS was established in 2003 by five of China's leading
computer and Consumer Electronics companies - Lenovo, TCL, Konka, Hisense,
and Great Wall, with Lenovo acting as the chair company. In addition to the
founding companies, key IGRS members include China Telecom, Huawei,
Changhong, ZTE, Skyworth and others. Today, IGRS represents all the major
industry players in China providing products to both domestic and worldwide
markets.

The growth of China's consumer electronics (CE) industry is accelerating,
driven both by the phenomenal growth rate of the Chinese market and with the
rising success of Chinese brands worldwide. Consumers are looking for
innovative and high-performance products to facilitate their home
entertainment experience, and new enabling technologies such as Wi-Fi are
gaining broad acceptance. Since the implementation of Wi-Fi solutions eases
the transmission of HD video content throughout the home, CE vendors
throughout the world, including China, have begun seeking out the most
appropriate Wi-Fi enabling solutions. To support their needs, IGRS is now
developing an advanced and reliable platform for the integration of Wi-Fi
technology into their HDTV decoders.

After thorough investigation of next-generation Wi-Fi
technologies, IGRS chose Metalink's 802.11n-compliant WLANPlus chipset as
the basis for the wireless capabilities of its new platform. It will be
designed to provide TV manufacturers with a robust and easy-to-integrate
total solution for the delivery and display of HD-quality video content
over home networks. As a best-of-breed offering, Metalink's 802.11n
WLANPlus is designed specifically for wireless delivery of HD video
streams, surpassing alternative solutions by an order of magnitude.
WLANPlus provides a robust foundation for the provision of wireless
triple-play and entertainment networks with multiple simultaneous
high-definition video streams and extended coverage. With a wide range
of chipsets, including single-band, dual-band and simultaneous dual-band
as well as a System on Chip (SoC) solution with an integrated network
processor, WLANPlus offers the best match for various applications
ranging from Residential Gateways, Access Points and Routers to PC cards,
STBs, DMAs and wireless HDTVs.

"The deployment of IPTV in China is rapidly growing and Wi-Fi
is the best-suited technology for such applications in this region," said Li
Ming, Technology Director at IGRS. "Our evaluation has confirmed that As a
result, there is an immediate and growing demand in China for Wi-Fi
connectivity. We found Metalink's WLANPlus to be the best-performing, most
robust and reliable Wi-Fi solution for enabling the wireless capabilities of
our new HDTV Decoder Platform."

"We are proud that IGRS has selected our chipset as the
wireless basis for its innovative HDTV Decoder Platform," added David Pereg,
VP of Corporate Development at Metalink. "As a representative of the world's
top-tier TV market leaders, IGRS sets the standards for all major TV vendors
by selecting only the finest technologies for integration in its platform
designs. Achieving a design win with this organization is therefore a major
accomplishment, paving the way to worldwide acceptance of our best-of-breed
802.11n WLANPlus chipset in this market segment."

About IGRS

IGRS stands for Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing
working group. It was formally established on July 17, 2003 by five of the
largest computer and CE companies in China, Lenovo, TCL, Konka, Hisense and
Great Wall. Lenovo acts as the chair company of the working group. Unlike
other international standardization groups, only a government-authorized
standard organization is allowed to define standard specifications in China.
In this case, the Ministry of Information Industry of China is the governing
body of the IGRS working group. For more information visit
http://www.igrs.org/en/index/index.asp

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's WLANPlus(TM) is a high-throughput, 802.11n-draft-compliant
wireless LAN technology optimized for the networked home entertainment
environment. Featuring advanced MIMO technology and full support of QoS,
and operating in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, WLANPlus enables multi-room
networking of multiple high-definition video streams. In addition,
Metalink offers a broad range of symmetric DSL and VDSL products used
by operators as a cost-effective network upgrade to support triple-play
services.

Headquartered in Yakum, Israel, the company has design centers
in USA (Atlanta, GA) and Taiwan, and sales offices in USA (Atlanta, GA),
South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Further information is available at
http://www.MTLK.com

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and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
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Company undertakes no obligation to republish or revise forward-looking
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guarantee future results, events, and levels of activity, performance,
or achievements.

Contact:

Xiaolin Huang
Alliance Liaison Officer
IGRS information Industry Association
Vice Director General of Secretariat
Tel: +86-10-5873-2590
Fax: +86-10-5873-2590
huangxl@igrslab.com

Mor Abraham
Marketing Communications Manager
Metalink Ltd.
Tel: +972-9-9605406
Fax: +972-9-9605544
Amor@MTLK.com

Source: IGRS and Metalink

Contact: Xiaolin Huang, Alliance Liaison Officer, IGRS information Industry Association, Vice Director General of Secretariat, Tel: +86-10-5873-2590, Fax: +86-10-5873-2590, huangxl@igrslab.com; Mor Abraham, Marketing Communications Manager, Metalink Ltd., Tel: +972-9-9605406, Fax: +972-9-9605544, Amor@MTLK.com

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