The World's Only Multi-Standard Receiver for Mobile Digital TV Makes Asian Debut at Computex, Taiwan.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Siano Mobile Silicon, a fabless semiconductor product company developing mobile digital television (MDTV) receiver solutions, announced today that it will make the Asian debut of the world's only multi-band, multi-standard receiver chipset for mobile digital television (MDTV) in Siano's suite at Computex 2006, taking place June 6-10 in Taipei.

The SMS1000 is the industry's first low-cost, ultra-low-power, quad-band multi-standard receiver. The SMS1000, supports DVB-H, DVB-T, DAB, Enhanced Packet Mode DAB (IP-DAB) and T-DMB mobile digital standards, in various spectrum ranges, already design-in by a number of Taiwanese makers, and supported by multiple software vendors.

Visitors to Computex will see Siano's SMS1000 demonstrated at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Room # 1120, with the following partners:

--Inventec Appliances Corporation (IAC), a Taiwanese handheld device maker is developing multiple products using Siano's SMS1000 MDTV receiver. "IAC views MDTV as a strategic technology and market, and we aim at integrating it into many of our future products, addressing different regions and different MDTV standards," said Michael Chen, senior vice president of IAC. "After careful analysis of the MDTV IC supplier landscape, we have selected Siano as our strategic partner, due to their superior product offering, and the great synergy between the companies," added Chen.

--Siano has teamed with CyberLink, a leading Digital Home Solution software developer, to provide advanced digital TV signal reception on handheld and portable devices. "We are very pleased to co-work with Siano to provide fast time-to-market, winning-edge DVB-H solutions to handheld makers," said Alice. H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink.

--InterVideo, provider of integrated digital and high-definition multimedia and audio/video content has developed software that takes advantage of the SMS1000's MDTV support. "Siano was selected because they make an outstanding receiver that will keep pace with the emerging MDTV standards," said Chinn Chin, InterVideo's Senior VP of Engineering. InterVideo's software together with Siano's MDTV receiver will be bundled with products sold by leading handset OEMs in China, Taiwan, Japan and the United States.

--Siano is integrating with VidzMedia's digital video and TV application software for Windows XP and MS Mobile applications.