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18.11.09

TORONTO--(Marketwire - November 18, 2009) - Fresco Microchip Inc. , a developer of leading edge RF, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that LG Innotek , a leading manufacturer of digital media and consumer electronics, has selected Fresco's universal analog demodulator and digital IF processor IC for its new global hybrid (analog + digital) tuner modules, including the popular TDTJ and TDFR series.

"In 2008, 562 million TV tuners shipped in televisions, set-top-boxes and recorder platforms," said Takayuki Maruhashi, assistant director, Techno Systems Research (TSR). "As a global force in consumer electronics, LG Innotek is the largest tuner module manufacturer in the world."

Integrating Fresco's technology enables LG Innotek to significantly streamline the supply chain by offering a global tuner module for all hybrid markets, no longer requiring multiple tuner modules for each regional market without compromising performance. The tuners support universal analog (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) and multi-standard digital (DVB, ATSC) audio/video for all major hybrid cable and terrestrial television markets.

"By adopting Fresco's innovative chip technology, LG Innotek continues to lead the way in cutting-edge solutions for next-generation televisions," said Gil-sang Park, vice president, LG Innotek. "In another industry first for LG Innotek, our latest tuner modules provide TV manufacturers with a universal hybrid tuner for all markets."

Fresco's hybrid demodulators are the industry's first single-chip solutions to deliver fully integrated universal legacy audio/video demodulation (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) and multi-standard digital IF processing. The chips set a new benchmark for lowering the system solution cost across the product life cycle from design through production. Using the company's iSAW ™ technology, the Fresco's ICs eliminate multiple external components, 6/7/8MHz higher-profile SAW filters and several amplifiers.

Fresco's hybrid demodulators elevate the standard for television performance by leveraging the company's innovative agileSP™ architecture to eliminate historical tradeoffs between picture quality (such as color brightness and image sharpness) and immunity to broadcasts from adjacent channels. The chips offer extended smearing and ringing reduction for the highest possible visual clarity. Fresco's technology delivers industry-leading adjacent channel rejection, which enables more robust, improved television reception with greater coverage throughout the home.

"We are excited that LG Innotek has selected our hybrid demodulator," said Lance Greggain, CEO, president and co-founder of Fresco Microchip. "LG Innotek's latest tuners showcase their reputation as a leader for integrating the world's most advanced technology."

About LG Innotek

Founded in 1970, LG Innotek Co., a subsidiary of LG group, is a global manufacturing leader of electric components and modules for mobile communication, display, network, car electronic, LED and PCB markets. LG Innotek's products include: modules for LCD flat panels, cameras, power applications, television tuners, wireless communications, LED drivers and backlight units.

LG Innotek is headquartered in Seoul Korea, with development, manufacturing and sales offices around the world. The company has achieved vigorous sales growth (US$2.4b - 2008) through strong power of execution by unfolding strong innovating activities. With the world's largest players including LG Electronics, LG Innotek regards the customer as the highest value.

With a rich background in developing high quality, innovative solutions while anticipating market expectations, LG Innotek is consistently delivering core technology to pioneer the development of next generation products. For more information, please visit the LG Innotek web site: www.lginnotek.com .

About Fresco Microchip, Inc.

Fresco Microchip is a fabless semiconductor company focused on leading edge RF, mixed-signal and digital signal processing architectures for consumer markets. Founded in 2004, Fresco Microchip has established a team of technology, sales and marketing veterans in the TV semiconductor industry with strong track records, multiple design patents and long-standing customer relationships with the world's most recognizable and respected consumer electronic brands. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with design centers in Ottawa, Canada and Irvine, California. For more information visit: www.frescomicrochip.com .

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03.11.09

Automobiles will soon be linking up with servers in the cloud to enable everything from crowdsourced pothole detection, personalized radio stations, video selections that include YouTube and even video streams from the front windows of other cars.

Think of it as Dashboard 2.0.

A consortium of tech companies called ng Connect showed off a functional concept version of a Toyota Prius on Tuesday that includes multiple LCD screens, an app platform similar to the one for the iPhone, and a high speed LTE internet connection that promises to make 3G feel like dial-up. The set-up turns the car into a Wi-Fi hot spot, plays movies on demand, and lets passengers frag each other in multi-player games.

The LTE connection is fast enough to stream four high-definition movies to four different screens in a single car, according to Alcatel-Lucent vice president Derek Kuhn. While still a telecom dream, LTE is backwards-compatible with today’s 3G networks. It also relies on a single standard, which will hopefully make nationwide rollout cheaper and faster than 3G has been.

ng Connect is comprised of a motley crew of tech companies: the networking company Alcatel-Lucent, Atlantic Records, QNX Software Systems, Toyota, geek gadget company chumby and Kabillion. Their LTE Connected Car project is only a prototype now, but the group expects its technology to roll out within the next two to three years.

ng Connect’s system leverages two major trends — cloud computing and mobile applications – to provide safety, navigation, and entertainment features that already go a long way towards justifying its “next-generation” moniker.

The high-bandwidth connection enables processor-intensive applications like voice recognition — a crucial safety feature in gadget-ridden cars — to happen on the server side, where voice commands can be processed more efficiently. And that’s just the beginning of what cloud computing will do for drivers, according to the ng Connect group.

“This car also is a sensor,” explained Kuhn. For instance, if your car’s temperature and moisture sensors determine that the surface temperature of the road is below freezing and that the road is wet, it can upload that information into the cloud so that the drivers behind you know to take it a little easier around the turns. It’s like a crowdsourced version of what traffic helicopters do today.

Entertainment-wise, the system offers Pandora’s personalized streaming radio, Atlantic Records’ apps that pull in an artist’s latest tweets and songs, YouTube and a movie streaming service that remembers where each viewer left off. Future applications could even use the vehicle’s moisture sensor to suggest that you play Bon Jovi’s , according to Kuhn.

Lest you worry about drivers being distracted, the system cuts off the entertainment stream to the driver’s monitor as soon as the car is in motion.

A camera embedded in the rearview mirror captures the road ahead, letting you pipe a video stream to the cloud. This will let you see the view from a connected car a quarter-mile ahead of you, so you can find out what’s causing that traffic jam up ahead. The system can also sense that traffic is becoming more compressed, warning you to slow down before you encounter a traffic compression.

Of course, America’s love affair with the car has a lot to do with freedom, and some could bristle about this sort of connectivity compromising their privacy.

“Let’s be open, there are privacy issues,” said Kuhn. “But we think we can abstract it enough that it’s not Dan driving.”

“It’s a nameless entity, right?” added Dan Dodge, president and CEO of QNX software, which developed the Flash Lite-based platform used by the system, who was seated in the driver’s seat for our demonstration. “It’s an identifier that would change every time you get into your car. It’s randomly assigned and has no idea who you are – it’s just a moving dot, and that’s key.”

However, Dodge added, applications that need to know who you are, such as Pandora, can do so without broadcasting any personally-identifying information to the cloud.

“The other exciting thing about this is municipalities,” said Dodge. “If your car hits a pothole, you can have a real-time signal go back to the municipality and they can see potholes appearing in real-time and send out a truck.” (Or start ignoring them as soon as possible, as the case may be.)

The losers in all of this: satellite navigation and radio. They appear to have about three years, tops, before personalized applications and cloud computing make them look as outdated as black-and-white television.

“Once you assume constant connectivity, the whole mindset changes of where you partition what’s in the car and what’s out in the cloud,” said Dodge. “Other than this nice, rich touch screen, a lot of the computing power has been moved onto the cloud, so the car of the future may be physically cheaper to build.”

Price will likely be a crucial factor in the success of this and other connected car platforms. ng Connect chose the Prius rather than a luxury model because research indicated that the segment of the population most interested in connected cars with advanced features is not the same that buys high-end luxury models. Rather, it’s young families and older singles who see connected electronics as a necessity.

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