SANYO ADOPTS INSILICON JVX ACCELERATION TECHNOLOGY FOR JAVA APPS.

inSilicon Corporation (Nasdaq:INSN), a provider of communications semiconductor intellectual property (IP), has announced that Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has completed a license for the company's JVX acceleration technology for use in Java-based consumer applications.

Sanyo will utilize the advanced Java acceleration technology from inSilicon as part of the company's ongoing emphasis to provide optimized system-on-chip (SoC) solutions to customers. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"Sanyo Electric recognizes inSilicon's pioneering technology leadership in IP-based Java acceleration," said Akira Shirakawa, Senior Manager, System LSI Division of Sanyo Electronics. "This agreement allows us to further advance our utilization of state-of-the-art, enabling technologies and deliver valuable innovation and performance features to our customers."

"Java acceleration will be a critical capability for enhancing the user experience and market acceptance of next-generation wireless Internet devices," said Barry Hoberman, Chief Operating Officer of inSilicon. "As a visionary, key technology early adopter, Sanyo's deployment of JVX is a demonstration of their intent to take a leadership position in providing cost-effective, high-performance Java acceleration solutions to the market."

Java is a ubiquitous platform in today's Internet infrastructure. Yet Java language runs slower than native code, and as a result requires acceleration to overcome application latency. This is easily solved in products where additional CPU, memory, and power resources are not an issue. For resource-constrained next generation wireless internet-enabled devices to be able to realize the vision of enabled mobile commerce, overcoming the fundamental barrier of cost effectively increasing Java speed is crucial. Yet these devices can achieve significant Java acceleration without the substitution of a higher performance processor or additional memory, which greatly increases cost and reduces battery life.

Designed to efficiently and economically address the key performance shortcomings of Java mobile platforms, inSilicon's highly flexible JVX technology consists of hardware and software semiconductor IP technology that can be integrated into existing or new mobile platforms, and can work with any microprocessor or microcontroller, Java Virtual Machine, or real-time operating system.

Easier to integrate than dedicated Java CPUs or co-processors and portable to any semiconductor foundry and design environment, JVX technology functions as a hardware accelerator attached to the native system processor, and can increase Java-based system performance up to 15X. Licensed as synthesizable Verilog source code and software, JVX technology preserves all the software capabilities of the original system CPU.