Austriamicro Licenses Hantro

BARCELONA -- Hantro and austriamicrosystems today announce a licensing agreement for Hantro's 7100 VC-1 video decoding technology on austriamicrosystems' new Mobile Entertainment platform. Hantro's 7100 VC-1 decoder conforms with Microsoft's PlaysForSure V2.0 specification and delivers QCIF+ Windows Media Video decoding performance on the AS3525/7 Mobile Entertainment platform.

austriamicrosystems' versatile and highly-integrated ARM9 SoC in the AS3525 and AS3527 delivers over 200MIPS of processing power and allows the implementation of an MP3 player with only 50mW total power consumption. Hantro's highly optimized 7100 VC-1 software decoder enables full motion Windows Media Video content playback on the ARM9-based design and is integrated with the system firmware available for AS3525/7 platform. These chip sets are the ideal engines to power premium MP3 players, Music Phones and Juke Phones.

"Hantro's long history and experience with low-power video products made it easy for us to choose the 7100 VC-1 decoder. Our customers expect the very best technology and Hantro is clearly the leader in this field," says Roberto Simmarano, Senior Director of Marketing BU Communications at austriamicrosystems. "We're happy austriamicrosystems chose Hantro as their video technology partner. Their innovative product platform together with our video technology is indeed one the most compelling mobile entertainment platforms in the market," commented Jani Huoponen, Vice President of Product Marketing.

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