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PRESS RELEASE
For further information contact:
Sheryl M. Gulizia
Manager, Public Relations
Silicon Image, Inc.
Phone: 408/616-1553
Fax: 408/830-9527
Marie Labrie
Account Director
MCA
Phone: 650/968-8900
Fax: 650/968-8990
HITACHI'S NEW PRIUS LCD PCs FEATURE SILICON IMAGE SiI 861™ PANELLINK® MONITOR CONTROLLER
SiI 861 Offers Consistent, High-Quality Digital Visual Experience In a Cost-Effective, Single-Chip Solution
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 4, 2001-- Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIMG), a price/performance leader in high-bandwidth semiconductor solutions for mass markets, today announced that Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) has incorporated Silicon Image's SiI 861 Digital Visual Interface (DVI)-compliant monitor controller into its recently announced 5 and 7 Series Prius LCD PCs. The SiI 861 is a single-chip solution coupling an advanced scaling engine with a robust PanelLink® Digital receiver for a cost-effective, high-quality, pure-digital visual experience.
The SiI 861's PixelPrecision™ image processing offers enhanced scaling quality that makes text particularly crisp and legible, while rendering extremely smooth and natural graphics. The SiI 861 also offers a higher level of functional integration by incorporating a Low-Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) transmitter, which is compatible with all single-channel LVDS panels. Benefits include greater reliability, lower total system cost and reduced board space requirements.
"The SiI 861 is the second Silicon Image monitor controller we have incorporated into our LCD PC systems," noted Ookubo Shigeyoshi, project manager, Application Products Development Project, Media Station Business Operation, Digital Media Group, Hitachi, Ltd. "We continue to be pleased with the high performance and ease of integration offered by Silicon Image's DVI solutions. In the case of the SiI 861, we were impressed with the superior scaling quality. Silicon Image is the price/performance leader for digital-only scalers."
Parviz Khodi, vice president of marketing for Silicon Image, noted, "Our monitor controller products are one example of how Silicon Image continues to innovate and add functionality to our DVI-compliant PanelLink, and this Hitachi design win is a significant milestone in our integration strategy. While the SiI 861 has been incorporated in systems from leading Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers, Hitachi is the first major Japanese OEM to use the SiI 861 in a PC application. Hitachi was convinced that Silicon Image was the best solution for this application."
Lower resolution inputs are automatically upscaled to any output resolution up to SXGA+ (1400x1050). The SiI 861 is the only scalar on the market that does not require an external microcontroller and memory, thereby simplifying flat panel monitor design. This enables lower system costs and speeds time-to-market for LCD OEMs.
The SiI 861 is also the world's first High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)-enabled monitor controller. By enabling a secure digital link between a video source and a digital display device, HDCP is a system for protecting DVI outputs from being copied. As such, HDCP is a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for receiving digital entertainment video that has been encrypted and protected using HDCP, an extension of DVI that is supported by a number of Motion Picture Association companies, including Disney, Fox and Universal Studios.
The Hitachi 5 and 7 Series Prius LCD PCs are currently in production and shipping.
About Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 2000 (ended March 31, 2001) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen ($67.9 billion*). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at global.hitachi.com.
* At an exchange rate of 124 yen to the dollar.
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 (MSLÔ) 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 20 million high-bandwidth, low-cost semiconductor solutions to the PC 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 861 into its products and the features and benefits of Silicon Image products. 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, design wins may not continue or yield either revenue or profits and Hitachi may incorporate other parties' solutions into its products. In addition, 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.
PanelLink, Silicon Image, SiI 168, SiI 861 and MSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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