Vivante GPU IP Selected for C2 Microsystems' Jazz-Based Media Processor SoC

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 13, 2009 -- Vivante Corporation today announced that C2 Microsystems, Inc., a leader in silicon and software solutions for presenting rich media content delivered over the internet, has selected Vivante GPU IP technology to bring feature-rich GUI and on-screen display capabilities to their high performance SoC media processors.

"By adding Vivante GPU IP, C2 addresses the visual user experience both today and tomorrow, to help the consumer navigate increasingly capable multimedia devices," said Dr. Jinxiang (Gene) Liu, CEO and President of C2 Microsystems, Inc. "This gives us the ability to extend our SoC platform capability in home entertainment and automobile infotainment devices with audio, video and image processing requirements."

"Increasing demand for sophisticated on-screen displays, graphical user interfaces and Internet gaming applications drives ever-more capable GPUs into a wide range of SoCs, where silicon area and performance delivered per milliwatt are the most important factors in selecting a GPU. Vivante is fueling this growth by providing a wide range of silicon proven GPU cores with the best performance per square millimeter of silicon area for each product category. This dramatic silicon area savings enables SoC vendors to differentiate a wide range of platforms with leading edge graphics performance," said Wei-Jin Dai, CEO of Vivante Corporation. "The bottom line is that Vivante lets our customers offer high performance, low power graphics in their full platform solutions with a minimum of incremental silicon cost."

About Vivante Corporation

Vivante Corporation is an embedded graphics technology leader, licensing its HD Visual Reality and Mobile Visual Reality IP to semiconductor solution providers that serve the high definition home entertainment, embedded mobile, image processing, and automotive display and entertainment markets. Vivante's ScalarMorphic(TM) architecture brings a PC-quality visual experience to embedded systems. Vivante GPUs produce the highest performance per square millimeter in half the final silicon area compared to other licensable GPU cores. Vivante delivers silicon proven, industry leading graphics performance conformant with the OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 and OpenVG 1.1 API standards. The Vivante development environment is used by a worldwide network of application developers and ecosystem partners. Vivante is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. For more information please visit Vivante online at http://www.vivantecorp.com.

About C2 Microsystems

C2 Microsystems is a manufacturer of media processor devices designed for the broadband delivery of rich media content over the internet and private networks. C2 Microsystems' products combine the ability to encode, decode and transcode a wide variety of media content types with a high quality of experience. C2 Microsystems has offices in Beijing, San Jose, and Taipei. For more information, visit C2 Microsystems online at http://www.c2micro.com.