ANT Fresco Browser Selected by Philips Semiconductors for its Nexperia Silicon System Platforms.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 ANT Limited, a leading provider of embedded communication software for consumer electronics, Internet appliances and eCommerce products, announced today that Philips Semiconductors (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PHG, AEX AEX See: Amsterdam Exchange :PHI) has chosen the ANT Fresco fresco (frĕs`kō) [Ital.,=fresh], in its pure form the art of painting upon damp, fresh, lime plaster. In Renaissance Italy it was called buon fresco to distinguish it from fresco secco, (TM) browser as part of its innovative Nexperia(TM) system silicon platforms. The Nexperia architecture is set to drive the definition and production of next-generation home entertainment and consumer products by allowing OEMs to integrate digital audio and video, Web access and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. using a proven, reusable set of interoperable hardware and software modules. Philips Semiconductors will include ANT Fresco as part of the Nexperia software solution for set-top boxes (STBs) and integrated digital TVs, enabling Philips to offer an advanced solution for broadcasters and manufacturers of digital TV devices. "ANT Fresco was chosen following extensive research and evaluation of numerous browsers by the Philips Research Group," said Enrico De Salve salve (sav) ointment. salve n. An analgesic or medicinal ointment. salve v. salve ointment. , software and sales marketing manager at Philips Semiconductors. "Software plays a key role in our Nexperia platform design, and the Fresco browser provides our broadcast and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers with configurable functionality and facilities to produce a customized and highly focused user interface for product branding and differentiation. The ANT browser was ported to our silicon in a very short time and will help to establish the Nexperia platform as the platform of choice for digital consumer electronic products." "By choosing our browser to be part of its solution for high performance digital TV devices, Philips Semiconductors becomes another prestigious partner added to the list of technology companies who recognize the many benefits of our product," said John Cherry
John Clifford Cherry (born May 22, 1965) was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 2001 to 2005, representing the state of Queensland. , senior VP of Sales and Marketing at ANT. "The flexibility and ease of customization means that Fresco is rapidly becoming the browser of choice for such applications. Now Philips Semiconductors' customers have access to an interoperable, reusable browser module that they can be confident carries the quality they would expect of a high reliability embedded product." Philips' Nexperia solutions allow OEMs to bring advanced consumer products to market rapidly, and with a high degree of flexibility. Each Nexperia platform is tailored to its own specific application domain, building on Philips' range of experience in multiple technologies. OEMs using Nexperia gain access to a set of hardware and software modules guaranteed to interoperate seamlessly, and designed for reuse. ANT Fresco will provide the core browser technology with a customizable user interface for Philips' customers working on next generation appliances requiring Web access. ANT Fresco is a platform-independent browser that enables OEMs to quickly and easily customize a branded interface for their Internet appliances. As the industry's first content-driven browser, it is designed to support real-world Web content. ANT's extensive and ongoing research into the features and functions used by today's Web sites allows consumer product OEMs to offer users greatly increased access to Web-based content. It has a small memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold and is based on a patent pending three-layer architecture. About Philips Semiconductors Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately US$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperia(TM) platform and VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Velocity(TM) tool set. The company's Sea-of-IP(TM) design methodology allows plug and play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world. For more information: www.semiconductors.philips.com. About ANT Limited ANT Limited (www.antlimited.com) develops and markets embedded communication appliance software for use in consumer electronics, Internet appliances and eCommerce products. Core technology includes the ANT Fresco(TM) browser and the ANT SimplEmail(TM) email client See e-mail program. , which employ high performance, highly portable and customizable architectures designed to meet the needs of Internet appliances and other networked products. ANT's technology gives original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of Internet devices, and the technology partners that supply them, three significant advantages: far greater speed to market, reduced engineering costs, and freedom to leverage corporate identity. The company's current customers include: Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. , Amino Communications Amino Communications Ltd are a technology company, founded in 1997 and based in Swavesey in the United Kingdom. They specialise in the field of IPTV set-top boxes. External links
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