VeriSilicon Releases New Generation of Hantro Video IP Products to Promote WebM and WebRTC

SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, 2012 -- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a world-class, custom silicon solutions and semiconductor IP provider, announces immediate availability of Hantro G1v5 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1v5 Multi-format Encoder semiconductor IPs which support 4K x 4K video, achieved through core enhancements and improved memory latency resiliency up to 600 cycles. Both products are offered with OMX IL component pre-integrated into Android 4.0. Additionally, Hantro H1v5 Multi-format Encoder adds temporal and spatial scalability features for VP8 enabling live streaming, multi-party video calls and surveillance applications.

VeriSilicon had an excellent year 2011 on promoting WebM, a free, open media format, and WebRTC, a free, open real-time communications framework, through Hantro video semiconductor IP licensing. Most tier-1 semiconductor companies adopted VP8 video format for WebM by integrating Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder, the only commercially available encoding IP supporting both H.264 and VP8, into their chips and platforms. This enables WebM video in a number of new, exciting devices such as media tablets, smart phones and smart TVs. Under an existing licensing agreement with Google, VeriSilicon has rights to commercially license Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder products to semiconductor companies worldwide and modify the Hantro video IPs to enhance core architecture and add new features.

"VeriSilicon has been a key player for chipset adoption of the VP8 technology. They have secured dozens of design wins in the past two years and demonstrated strong global customer support capabilities," said Aki Kuusela, Engineering Manager at Google's Hantro Video IP team. "We are at the forefront of rapid codec advancements in generation five of our Hantro G1 and Hantro H1 Video IPs, and are confident that 1080p VP8 decoding and encoding will become ubiquitous in internet-connected devices through open technologies such as WebRTC."

"We are really proud to work together with Google," says Dr. Wayne Dai, President and CEO of VeriSilicon, "Based on our leading technologies in HD audio, HD video, wideband voice, together with our world class design foundry service, we are creating variety of new System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms, providing customer silicon solutions and enabling the device indu-try benefit from great open technologies such as WebM and WebRTC."

About VeriSilicon

Founded in 2002, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. ("VeriSilicon") is a fast growing IC (integrated circuit) design foundry providing custom silicon solutions and SoC (System-on-A-Chip) turnkey services. VeriSilicon's technology solutions combine licensable digital signal processing (ZSP) cores, eDRAM, value-added mixed signal IP portfolio and other star IP into a SoC platform that extends below 40nm process technologies. These platforms benefit a wide range of consumer electronics devices such as cellular phone, media tablet, HDTV, set top box, Blu-ray DVD player, and home gateway. VeriSilicon's design and manufacturing services provide differentiation based on specific customer requirements that range from initial SoC specification and embedded software to backend design implementation and volume production, utilizing multiple foundry partners, assembly and test companies in Asia and US. VeriSilicon currently has research and development centers in Shanghai and Beijing, China; Santa Clara and Dallas, US; Oulu, Finland; with sales and customer support offices in Santa Clara, US; Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, China; Tokyo, Japan; and Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; Nice, France and Munich, Germany. For more information, please visit www.verisilicon.com

About Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder products, please visit www.verisilicon.com/en/products_hvip.asp .

About WebM free open media format, please visit www.webmproject.org

About WebRTC free open Real-Time Communications framework, please visit www.webrtc.org