Sicon Semiconductor and Zoran Announce Technology Cooperation

Sicon Semiconductor and Zoran Announce Technology Cooperation

LINKÖPING, Sweden, May 30/PRNewswire/ -- Sicon Semiconductor AB and Zoran Corporation announce that the companies are cooperating on delivering improved technologies for digital television products.

"We've evaluated Sicon's product offerings for the digital television market and are quite impressed with their performance, and low power consumption," says Steven Brook, Senior Director, Marketing and Intellectual property, Zoran Corporation. "We are pleased to be able to recommend Sicon's cost-competitive products to our DTV customers."

"The superior performance and ultra-low power consumption of Sicon's products is achieved by using the patented PSAR architecture of the Sicon A/Dvance family of products. Optimized for video graphics applications, Sicon's solution represents the best cost/performance in the industry, while enhancing the picture quality of digital televisions that utilize Zoran's leading HDTV technology," adds Jan-Erik Lennefalk, Sicon's Vice President Marketing.

About Sicon

Sicon Semiconductor, based in Linköping, Sweden, is a fabless innovation and product company with over 25 years of experience in mixed signal and analog design. Sicon's solutions are based on a patented technology, PSAR, in Analog to Digital conversion, which enables industry-leading solutions for video and graphics multimedia interface. The performance and cost benefits that Sicon provides allow both consumer and professional applications to be realized. Sicon's A/D products are designed using leading-edge standard CMOS processes. Sicon's unique technology allows customers to benefit from the scalable and portable technology that will secure optimum cost/performance, while meeting customers' stringent TTM needs. For more information about Sicon, visit the company's web site at www.siconsemi.com.

About Zoran Corporation

Zoran Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of digital solutions in the growing digital entertainment and digital imaging markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications, and Connect Share Entertain technologies for the digital home. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer products have received recognition for excellence and are now in hundreds of millions of homes and offices worldwide. Zoran has headquarters in the U.S. and operations in Canada, China, England, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.zoran.com or at +1 408 523 6500.

Zoran and the Zoran logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Zoran Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other names and brands may be claimed as property of others.

Source: Sicon Semiconductor

For more information about the cooperation, please contact: Jan-Erik Lennefalk, VP Marketing, Sicon Semiconductor, jan-erik.lennefalk@siconsemi.com, +46-13-23-42-20; Roland Andersson, CEO, Sicon Semiconductor, roland.andersson@siconsemi.com, +46-13-23-42-20

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