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TI Adds Several New Design-Wins, Providing High-Performance, Programmable DSPs to an Ever-Growing Array of Internet Audio Products
Nine of the Top 10 Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Choose TI's DSPs for Internet Audio Devices
DALLAS (October 19, 2001) - Continuing to demonstrate its strong support of the Internet audio industry, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) added new products from GGKaiser and SONICblue(tm) Incorporated, as well as additional products from current customers Compaq Computer Corporation and e.Digital to its extensive list of design-wins. Throughout 2001, TI has established strong relationships and demonstrated the ability to listen to our customers resulting in increased market share over the competition. TI's award-winning DSP technology has been designed into more than 80 Internet audio devices, including products from nine of the top 10 consumer electronics manufacturers. (See http://www.ti.com/sc/internetaudio.)
"TI has its finger on the pulse of the digital music industry, with more than 90 percent of the top consumer electronics manufacturers using our technology," said Chris Schairbaum, worldwide marketing manager of Internet Audio at TI. "As we approach the holidays, TI expects to see an increase in consumer demand for upgradeable, feature-rich devices offering the flexibility to adjust to the ever-changing audio market."
TI is one of the leading suppliers of chips in the Internet audio market, having shipped three million Internet audio DSPs as of June 2001, more than any other programmable semiconductor manufacturer. TI provides the engine for Internet audio-enabled products from leading consumer electronics manufacturers due to its flexible, high performance and low power system solution. TI's Internet Audio business garnered several new design-wins and industry relationships in the third quarter, including:
- August - SONICblue selected TI's industry-leading programmable DSP technology to power its new Rio® One digital audio player. Leveraging the performance headroom and programmability of TI's DSP, the Rio One can play multiple audio formats, is upgradeable to support future formats and costs less than $100. TI's low-power DSP also enables the Rio One to play up to 10 hours of music on one AA battery.
- September - TI was the first semiconductor company to license Thomson's new mp3PRO digital audio format. Using TI's industry-leading programmable DSPs, manufacturers will now have the ability to update Internet audio devices to support the mp3PRO format. Backwards compatible with mp3, the new mp3PRO offers dramatically improved compression rates and sound quality.
- September - Using TI's TMS320C54x DSP, GGKaiser has developed the "MP-Kaiser," a multi-format digital audio player that features wireless radio frequency technology allowing connectivity between the player and compatible wireless headphones, car audio and home audio. The MP-Kaiser features real-time mp3 encoding, FM-tuner and voice-recorder.
- September - In addition to the iPAQ Music Center that was announced in June, Compaq Computer Corporation has incorporated TI DSPs into its iPAQ Personal CD Player PCD-1. The PCD-1 plays CD-R, CD-RW and conventional CDs and supports mp3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) files. The PCD-1 features an FM-tuner, connectivity to home stereo systems and an infrared remote control for ease of use. With 650 MB of memory, listeners can enjoy up to 300 songs or 20 hours of audio from a single disk.
- September - e.Digital incorporated the TI DSP into the first publicly available digital audio reference design that supports DataPlay technology, enabling manufacturers to easily incorporate this emerging storage medium. DataPlay digital media is a universal solution, about the size of a quarter, that is designed to play and record all forms of digital content across all digital devices and platforms, including music, images, software, eBooks, games, video and more.
- October - e.Digital has also utilized TI's DSP technology into its new digital audio and music player/recorder, which supports IBM's Microdrive removable hard disk media. The new Microdrive technology allows up to 1 GB of storage or 20 hours of music. Based on e.Digital's new MicroOS 2.0 operating system, the ultra-portable product features VoiceNav, e.Digital's natural speech-recognition user interface for performing navigation and playback functions. Just in time for the holidays, consumers will have easy voice access to an extensive portable audio or music library.
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Safe Harbor Statement: Statements contained in this press release regarding product performance, growth in the internet audio market, and other statements of management's beliefs, goals and expectations may be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. Please refer to TI's most recent Form 10-K for more information on the risks and uncertainties that could materially affect future results of operations. TI disclaims any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this press release.
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