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Frontier Silicon Chorus DAB chip reaches 250,000 unit sales milestone

London, UK - 31st July, 2003 - Frontier Silicon, the fabless semiconductor business whose core products include system-on-chip (SoC) devices for digital TV, digital radio and other emerging consumer multimedia products, today announced that it has shipped over a quarter of a million DAB modules based on its Chorus DAB and digital audio processor during its first 12 months of production.

Frontier is the number one supplier of DAB Digital Radio processors in the world.

Says Anthony Sethill, CEO, Frontier Silicon: "Sales of DAB technology have more than met our expectations and we are firmly on track to reach our target of shipping over 500,000 DAB processor modules during the next 12 months. Chorus is the basis for the wave of mainstream DAB products which are now taking the market by storm."

Chorus supports all DAB audio and data services, as well as other digital audio formats such as MP3, and recently demonstrated MPEG-4 playback capabilities at Mediacast 2003.

Continues Sethill: "Our next product to ship is the Logie terrestrial digital television and DAB chip, for which we've already signed a number of customers. We are confident Logie will match the success we've achieved with Chorus. We are well placed to be a very significant supplier of DAB and digital television technology."

Frontier DAB modules account for over 80% of DAB sales worldwide and its customers include brands such as PURE Digital, Goodmans, Bush, Ministry of Sound, Cambridge Audio, TEAC and Grundig. Frontier's Chorus DAB processor is based on intellectual property (IP) licensed from Imagination Technologies, a leader in SoC IP.

About Frontier Silicon

Operating at the frontiers of the digital revolution Frontier Silicon is a fabless semiconductor business whose core products include system-on-chip (SoC) devices and RF baseband modules for digital TV, digital radio and other emerging consumer multimedia products. Frontier's key customers include consumer electronic, automotive entertainment and PDA/mobile phone manufacturers.