RMI Announces Home Media Player Solution at IBC 2008 Extending Advanced Features...

RMI Announces Home Media Player Solution at IBC 2008 Extending Advanced Features and Capabilities to the Digital Photo Frame Market

RMI's turnkey HMP Solution drives video streaming, wireless
connectivity and increased on-demand content enhancing the consumer
experience at home
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands & CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
RMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processors
for Communication and Media, today announce a complete product
solution for Home Media Players(TM) (HMP), extending new features and
capabilities to the Digital Photo Frame market. RMI's turnkey HMP(TM)
application solution drives advanced product capabilities such as
video streaming, wireless connectivity, increased on-demand content,
home connectivity and enhancing the overall consumer experience.

RMI's Alchemy-based(TM) Home Media Player solution offers original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a faster time to market, lower system
cost, and the configurability and performance required to develop
market-leading Home Media Players with advanced features. The RMI(R)
solution leverages the power-optimized RMI Alchemy(TM) Au1200(TM)
series of connected media processors, giving OEMs and original design
manufacturers (ODMs) the flexibility and the tools necessary to
develop and deliver a complete high performance, connected HMP system
for not only consumer usage but overall home connectivity.

"Our HMP initiative extends the product features that our
customers are implementing today for next generation consumer devices.
The added functionality that RMI brings with the 700MHz Au1250
Processor creates a new category of products that extends way beyond
the standard digital photo frame. The HMP solution brings home
connectivity, wireless networking, internet access and streaming video
to make this a truly significant product in the home networking and
consumer market," said Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive
officer, RMI.

The evolution of the traditional Digital Photo Frame (DPF) into
the Home Media Player (HMP) has already begun with the addition of
Wi-Fi(R) connectivity to the DPF category. The RMI Alchemy HMP design
integrates Atheros' Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROC(R)) AR6002 for WLAN.
This single-chip solution delivers the industry's highest throughput
and lowest power consumption for embedded Wi-Fi applications,
providing designers with the ideal wireless technology to enable a new
generation of advanced digital photo frame products.

"For today's multi-functional digital photo frames to offer
significantly expanded capabilities beyond displaying family photos,
they require high-performance wireless connectivity to the Internet,"
said Sam Endy, vice president and general manager of the mobile
wireless business unit for Atheros. "The reliability and low-power
benefits of Atheros' AR6002 enables an entirely new class of mini Web
tablets and smart viewing displays for sharing multimedia in the
home."

With the combination of internet connectivity and RMI Alchemy
media processors, the following features are now possible:

-- Streaming IP radio, DVD-quality video, and IPTV from popular
websites like YouTube(TM), Hulu(TM), and Joost(TM)

-- VoIP and video chat calls

-- Gadget and widget services for on-demand content such as
weather, sports, news, traffic, finance, and more

-- Interface to social networking sites (Web 2.0)

-- Online photo and video sharing from popular content sharing
sites

-- Email/Instant messaging/SMS/MMS/RSS reader

-- TV reception

-- Pier-to-pier (frame-to-frame) content sharing and
communication

Complete HMP Application Solution

RMI's Home Media Player Reference Design Kit is a customizable
solution including a reference design board, software board support
package (BSP), hardware schematics, documentation, and advanced HMP
applications. The HMP Reference Design Board is based on the RMI
Alchemy Au1250(TM) Processor. This high performance processor, running
at 700MHz, provides the needed horsepower to handle the most
challenging HMP applications. The reference design includes all
essential hardware functionality including media card interfaces for
SD/MMC/MS/xD/CF and a USB flash stick. Additionally, the design also
comprehends an audio codec for stereo speakers, a touch screen
interface, and robust Wi-Fi connectivity provided by Atheros' AR6002
ROCm WLAN chip. Flash memory and DDR2 RAM are plentiful for both the
user (media storage) and the application space.

The HMP Reference Design Kit includes a complete board support
package (BSP). The BSP includes the kernel, file system, and tool
chain, along with driver support for all peripherals. In addition, the
BSP includes a complete media stack for high quality D1 resolution
video playback of the internet's most popular audio and video formats
including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, DivX, and Xvid. RMI has also
established a broad ecosystem of partnerships to enable OEMs to
quickly take their HMP vision to market. This ecosystem includes both
ODMs as well as Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with a range of
capabilities and solutions well suited for the HMP and related
consumer media markets.

About RMI Corporation

RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing
High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC(TM)) Processor
solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media
markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin
Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad platform of
advanced MIPS-compatible processor solutions with both 32/64-bit
architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is
headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations
in Texas, United Kingdom, France, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and
China. More information about RMI can be found on the company's
website at http://www.RMICorp.com.

(C)Copyright 2008 RMI Corporation. All rights reserved. RMI, the
RMI logo, RMI Alchemy, Alchemy-Based, Home Media Player, HMP, Alchemy,
Au1250, SuperSOC and the other trademarks named on the RMI website are
trademarks of RMI Corporation. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.

RMI Corporation
D. Christopher Keil
Sr. Director, Marketing
408-434-5700
ckeil@RMICorp.com

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