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RMI Corporation and Nextreaming join forces to offer a ready to market solution for DVB-T and OneSeg

The Partnership combines strengths by closely coupling the RMI Alchemy Au1250 Multimedia Processor and Nextreaming DVB-T and OneSeg SW solutions.

Austin, USA; Seoul, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan, June. 3rd, 2008 – RMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processor Solutions for Communications Infrastructure, Enterprise and Media Rich Applications, and Nextreaming, a leading provider of high performance low-power processor solutions and embedded multimedia software solutions, announced today that they successfully combined and optimized their technologies to enable first-in-class devices supporting mobile TV services over DVB-T and OneSeg networks.

Nextreaming´s NexTV™, an embedded SW application including codecs, which allow users to watch high quality digital broadcasting TV on a mobile device, has been optimized for the RMI AlchemyTM Au1250TM Media Processor. NexTV™ provides a greatly enhanced user experience for DVB-T and OneSeg services thanks to the capability of the Alchemy Au1250 Processor and to the highly-optimized Nextreaming SW, which has been targeted for the
Au1250 Processor in close cooperation with RMI.

Following RMI’s and Nextreaming’s already successful cooperation for T-DMB on the Au1250 Processor, the partnership’s current achievement has been to create a ready-to-go platform fully compliant with the DVB-T and OneSeg standards and fully optimized to provide the an enhanced user experience. The solution is intended to reduce the time to market and improve the success of device makers.

Said Mike Wodopian, vice president and general manager, RMI Corporation, “Working with Nextreaming has enabled us to successfully deliver a mobile TV solution to our customers covering multiple TV standards including T-DMB, DVB-T and OneSeg which are important to our continued success in the portable media markets. We are happy to have them as a partner.”

Said Dr. Il-Taek Lim, Nextreaming CEO: ““We are providing our customers with various mobile TV solutions, ranging from streaming media players to T-DMB, OneSeg, DVB-T and DVB-H. Our partnership with RMI is in line with our strategy to combine Nextreaming´s technology with complementary technologies from selected leading companies. We are proud of our collaboration with RMI with the common goal to satisfy our customers and help ensure the success of their business.“

About RMI Corporation
RMI is a fabless semiconductor company providing high performance, feature-rich, power optimized System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC™) solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise and Consumer Media markets. RMI offers a full range of advanced MIPS-Based® processing 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, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at http://www.RMICorp.com.

About Nextreaming
Nextreaming is the leading global provider of embedded multimedia SW for mobile devices. More than 80 handsets worldwide using Nextreaming technology have been successfully released in the market, including the world’s first commercial DVB-H phones. Nextreaming´s SW products include advanced mobile TV solutions for the standards DVBH, DVB-T, T-DMB, S-DMB, OneSeg and MBMS. Nextreaming is specialized in optimizing its SW (i.e. codecs, protocols and application engine) for the corresponding HW platform, achieving the best performances out of it. This
fact, combined with a strong customer support, enables the best user experience as well as the shortest time to market. For more information: www.nextreaming.com

Contact Nextreaming
:
Carlos Lucas
carlos.lucas@nextreaming.com

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

 

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