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PRESS RELEASE
SILICON IMAGE'S PANELLINK® CAPTURES ADDITIONAL ALL-IN-ONE DESIGN WINS FOR HITACHI LCD PC
SiI 851 Design Win Demonstrates Growing Market Penetration for PanelLink Integrated Display Products
SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 26, 2000 — Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIMG), a price/performance leader in high-bandwidth semiconductor solutions for mass markets, today announced that its PanelLink® technology has again been selected as the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) solution of choice by another all-in-one PC OEM — Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan). Hitachi's Prius 300R is marketed as a sleek, low-cost liquid crystal display (LCD) PC. The new system features both a PanelLink SiI 851 monitor controller and SiI 164 transmitter for a complete, end-to-end digital solution.
"We chose Silicon Image over the competition because they offered the right integrated feature set at an economical price, enabling Hitachi to aggressively target the growing market for low-cost, all-in-one PC systems. Having manufactured their DVI-compliant solutions in volume quantities for several years, Silicon Image has a proven track record for quality and reliability in the PC space," stated Hideyuki Washiyama, Internet Systems Platform Division senior engineer for Hitachi. "They are also the only company in production with a reliable, integrated, DVI-compliant scaling solution."
According to Jon Kiachian, director of product marketing for Silicon Image, the design wins are indicative of the growing momentum in the all-in-one market and PanelLink's suitability for these systems. "The PC market is undergoing a paradigm shift. Customers are demanding fully integrated, front-to-back solutions offering impressive digital performance in a streamlined form factor at a very reasonable price. Silicon Image is well positioned to capitalize on this market opportunity with proven solutions at both ends of the DVI link." Kiachian added, "With its price/performance advantage, PanelLink is ideal for this latest generation of computing solutions. Integrated solutions such as our monitor controller offer all-in-one manufacturers another means of controlling costs and bringing these systems into mass production."
Silicon Image's SiI 851 is an integrated monitor controller that provides all the necessary functions required for a high-end, pure digital SXGA or XGA flat panel monitor. As a single-chip solution, the SiI 851 lowers overall cost, increases reliability, occupies less board space and simplifies design and layout. The SiI 851 includes a PanelLink receiver, programmable On Screen Display (OSD) block, clock multiplier, power management capabilities and a number of high-quality PixelPrecision™ image-processing features, including scaling, dithering and gamma, color temperature and contrast control.
A key factor in the decision to incorporate the SiI 164 transmitter was its compatibility with Intel's DVO 12-bit graphic interface, which was jointly defined by Intel and Silicon Image. The SiI 164 transmitter offers scalable bandwidth — supporting displays ranging from VGA to UXGA resolutions (25-165 Mhz) in a single-link interface. The SiI 164 also features a low voltage, highly flexible interface with 12-bit or 24-bit clock input for true color (16.7 million) support.
These design wins are the latest in a series of all-in-one wins for Silicon Image's PanelLink Digital technology. Recently, Silicon Image also announced that PanelLink has been standardized on Sun Microsystems' new Sun Ray™ information appliance and IBM's NetVista X-40 all-in-one computer.
The Hitachi Prius 300R LCD PC featuring PanelLink Digital has been released into production and is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
About Silicon Image
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Silicon Image, Inc. designs, develops and markets high-speed semiconductor solutions for a variety of communications applications that require cost-effective, high-bandwidth capabilities. Leveraging Silicon Image's circuit innovation at the physical layer, the company's proprietary, reduced overhead Multi-layer Serial Link (MSL™) architecture is well suited to address a number of mass markets with aggressive bandwidth price/performance requirements-including the display, storage and networking sectors. Evidencing its success, Silicon Image has shipped more than 10 million high-bandwidth, low-cost semiconductor solutions to the PC/display market alone. For more information on Silicon Image and its proven multi-layered, high-speed interconnect technology, visit www.siimage.com
This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of federal securities regulations. These forward-looking statements include statements related to Hitachi's plans to incorporate the SiI 851 and 164 into its products, the timing thereof, future demand for Silicon Image's technology and products, and the industry's transition to digital displays. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. In particular, product and engineering technical errors and delays may affect adoption, or timing, of the product. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Factors Affecting Future Results" in the most recent Annual Report, Form 10-K or 10-Q filed by Silicon Image with the SEC. Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update this forward-looking information.
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PanelLink, Silicon Image, PanelLink Digital, PixelPrecision, SiI 851 and SiI 164 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
CONTACTS:
Sheryl M. Gulizia
Manager, Public Relations
Silicon Image, Inc.
Phone: 408/616-1553
Fax: 408/830-9527
Stephanie Huang
Associate
MCA
Phone: 650/968-8900
Fax: 650/968-8990
About the Digital Display Working Group
The DDWG is an open industry group led by Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC and Silicon Image. The DDWG was kicked off at the 1998 Fall IDF and now has more than 100 members. Since that time the DVI 1.0 specification was completed with more than 15 display, PC OEM, silicon and connector manufacturers announcing and/or demoing DVI-compliant products at the 1999 Fall IDF. More than 50 companies have incorporated the interface into its products and future product plans. More information on the DDWG and DVI 1.0 specification can be obtained at www.ddwg.org.
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