Alphamosaic Press Release 02/09/04

A new chip for a new generation of handheld devices

Cambridge September 2004:  Having scored a world-first with VideoCore, Alphamosaic has launched VC02, the world’s most advanced Mobile Multimedia Processor. It can display video on 3.5” colour LCDs and capture 8 Megapixel images, making it ideal for watching TV, making videos or taking studio-quality photos on handheld products such as mobile phones. The power-efficiency of VC02 will allow many hours of continuous operation on a single battery charge, a unique feature for such a high-performance multimedia chip.

Based on Alphamosaic?s new video-processing engine VideoCore?II, VC02 is completely programmable and able to handle the full range of audio and video formats. This makes it ideally suited to the new generation of multimedia-enabled mobile phones as well as solid-state camcorders, handheld digital TV and portable video recorders with miniature hard disk drives. Using your phone to send video clips to your friends, recording a late-night movie to watch on a train the next morning??whatever the application, VC02 is the ideal multimedia solution.

Alphamosaic CEO Dr. Jalal Bagherli said: ?Working in close collaboration with our mobile phone VideoCore? customers has given us a deep understanding of their multimedia needs. This has enabled us to design a chip with the optimum feature-set for their next-generation of products, anticipating the trends in handheld multimedia and video-enabled mobile phones.?

VC02 offers a whole range of connectivity options such as USB, SD-Card memory and can even drive a TV or full-size monitor directly. As the most complete mobile multimedia processor offering the longest battery life, VC02 further establishes the VideoCore? family as the industry-standard solution for handheld video and entertainment.