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