New Silicon Image IC's First to Enable UXGA Resolution in Advanced Digital and Flat Panel Displays; Implements New Industry-wide Digital Visual Interface Specification.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--In its continuing effort to accelerate the industry's transition to flat panel and other digital displays, Silicon Image today announced new PanelLink(R) chips that support display resolutions from VGA (800x600) up to UXGA (1600x1200) in a single link.

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About the SiI 160 and 161

The new SiI 160 transmitters and SiI 161 receivers use PanelLink Digital technology to interface displays ranging from VGA (800 x 600) to UXGA (1600 x 1200) (25-162 MHz). They support true color panels up to 24 bit/pixel, 16.7M colors, in 1 or 2 pixels/clock mode, and also feature an inter-pair skew tolerance up to 1 full input clock cycle (15ns at 65 MHz). Both are compliant with VESA(R)P&D(TM), VESA(R) FPDI-2(TM), VESA(R) TMDS(TM) and DFP Port standards. As with all PanelLink products, the SiI 160 and SiI 161 have been designed using a scaleable, CMOS architecture that supports future performance upgrades while maintaining the same logical interface. This significantly reduces the burden on hardware designers as they create next-generation products.

The SiI 160 transmitter and SiI 161 receiver are sampling now, with production scheduled for June 1999. Cost for the transmitter and receiver pair is $17.50, quantity 5000.

About Silicon Image

Silicon Image, Inc. is the industry leader in high-speed, low-cost all-digital video/graphics display interface technology. The company's PanelLink technology implements the industry's only standard, open, scaleable, end-to-end, serial, all-digital physical connectivity between computers, controllers, or other sources of video and digital video display devices such as flat-panel monitors.

The PanelLink protocol has been adopted by the Digital Display Working Group, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) for its "Plug and Display" standard and is the underlying technology of the Digital Flat-panel (DFP) standard. Silicon Image designs and markets fami.siimage.com.

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