ARC International Announces Early Adopter Program for New ARC-Based Multimedia Subsystems; Access to Industry's First Multi-Standard Video and Audio Subsystems Now Available to Limited Number of OEM and Semiconductor Companies.ELSTREE, England -- ARC International (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :ARK) today kicked off its Early Adopter (EA) program for the company's upcoming multimedia subsystems. All will include multi-standard video and audio codecs (encoders and decoders) as well as other must-have technologies critical to high-growth consumer applications. ARC's Multimedia EA program is open to a limited number of 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 and semiconductor companies, and enables participants to be the first to market with an industry leading multimedia subsystem that is designed to offer the lowest power consumption and smallest silicon footprint of any in the industry. "ARC is pleased to announce the next family of industry leading multi-standard multimedia subsystems to satisfy the power, cost and time-to-market requirements of today's consumer-based SoCs," said Dan Davis, director of multimedia solutions at ARC International. "Participants in ARC's Multimedia EA program have special access to optimized technologies that will reduce time-to-market parameters by providing pre-verified subsystems targeted at this high-volume market. ARC's complete range of video, imaging and audio codecs will give our licensees the ability to create compelling products that provide an extremely high quality multimedia user experience. These multimedia subsystems illustrate ARC's commitment to providing pre-validated technologies, enabling our customers to capture greater market share in the highly competitive consumer marketplace." ARC's Multimedia Subsystem Roadmap ARC International's multimedia solutions are comprised of the new ARCmedia(TM) and ARCsight(TM) subsystems, which will be optimized to eliminate porting of a wide range of algorithms. Video codecs will include H.264 baseline and main profiles, Windows Media(R) Video 9, MPEG-4 simple and advanced simple profiles, and MPEG-2 main profile at main level. A comprehensive list of imaging codecs also will be included, as will audio codecs such as MP3, Windows Media Audio See Windows Media formats. , AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. and AC-3. Both multimedia subsystems are based upon ARC's preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. 32-bit processor core, a SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) A computer that performs one operation on multiple sets of data. It is typically used to add or multiply eight or more sets of numbers at the same time for multimedia encoding and rendering as well as scientific engine to optimally handle parallelized tasks, and hardware acceleration blocks for compute-intensive algorithms such as motion estimation and entropy encoding. Each subsystem will be independent of the system CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and will work with industry standard bus interfaces. Availability ARC's Multimedia EA program is open now to qualified OEM and semiconductor companies. Visit www.arc.com/multimedia for more information. About ARC International plc ARC International is the world leader in low-power, high-performance 32-bit configurable CPU/DSP processor cores, subsystems, real-time operating systems and development tools for embedded system design. ARC's configurable and extendible cores assist customers in the development of next generation digital media, consumer and communications devices, resulting in lower cost, higher performance SoC products. ARC International maintains a worldwide presence with corporate offices in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , USA and Elstree, UK. The company has research and development offices located in England and the United States. For more information please visit the ARC website at: www.ARC.com. ARC International is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. as ARC International plc (LSE:ARK). ARC, the ARC logo, ARCsound, ARCsight, ARCmedia and ARC-Based are trademarks or registered trademarks of ARC International. All other brands or product names contained herein are the property of their respective owners. This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For factors that could cause actual results to differ, visit the company's website as well as the listing particulars filed with the United Kingdom Listing Authority and the Registrar of Companies The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. in England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . Certain applications mentioned in this press release may require additional licenses from third party patent holders. |
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