Silicon Optixs Realta HQV Chip Wins Silver Best of CES Award

San Jose, Calif. (Mar. 1, 2005)–Silicon Optix’s Realta chip with Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) has been honored with a “Silver Best of CES 2005” award for Electronics and Algorithms from Kahn International’s Private Line Report.

“Since its launch in September, the Realta chip has received lots of praise and recognition as the new high end of video processing, but the fact that Realta is now in a shipping product, Denon’s 5910 DVD player, makes it real, and is the reason we gave them this award,” said Fred Kahn, editor of Private Line Report.

Realta originates from Teranex’s $60,000 broadcast and postproduction platforms. Teranex’s software algorithms run on Realta’s fully programmable, trillion-operations-per-second video processing engine to deliver a new standard in image quality, a standard Silicon Optix is calling Hollywood Quality Video, or HQV.

The Realta HQV processor has already won seven awards, including the CES 2005 “Best of Innovations” award for the Embedded Technologies category, “Most Promising New Technology” and “Most Exciting New Company” from The Perfect Vision, “Best Buzz” of CEDIA from Insight Media, AVGuide Monthly’s “Best Product Overall,” Red Herring’s “Top 100 Innovators” award, and now, Fred Kahn’s “Silver Best of CES” award.

To learn more about Realta HQV, go to www.siliconoptix.com.

About Private Line Report
The Private Line Report on Large Screen Display is published monthly by Kahn International, A California Corporation. It provides critical technology and market insight on new developments in 30″D and over displays that are likely to have significant commercial markets within five years. The emphasis is on independent analysis and on information that is not widely available. Further information can be obtained from Kahn International, 782 Southampton Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303-3437, USA or by contacting the editor, Dr. Frederic J. Kahn, at fjkahn@post.harvard.edu

About Silicon Optix
Silicon Optix Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company, is the leading supplier of advanced video/image digital processing integrated circuits (ICs). The company’s products are driving three unique technologies into a broad range of markets: a patented, powerful, array-based programmable DSP for digital video; industry-leading software algorithms from Teranex; and proprietary eWARP geometry processing. Its mission is to leverage these innovative technologies into ICs that will enable the next generation of digital video/image capture, transmission, distribution, editing, storage, and display solutions, with an initial focus on large-area digital displays including front and rear projection. Silicon Optix is headquartered in San Jose, California, with operations in Hanover, Germany; Orlando, Florida; Taipei, Taiwan; and Toronto, Canada. For more information about Silicon Optix, please visit the company’s website at www.siliconoptix.com.

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