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Frontier Silicon wins hottest UK technology prospect of 2004 award

3 March 2004: Frontier Silicon today received the award for "Hottest UK Technology Prospect of the Year" at the annual UK Technology Partnering & Investment Forum Gala Awards presentation at the Hilton Metropole, London. The award is presented to the firm showing great promise for 2004 and likely to make an impact in their marketplace. Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, received the award from Terry Hopcroft of PricewaterhouseCoopers, sponsors of the award.

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About Frontier Silicon

Frontier Silicon is an award-winning company at the forefront of the digital multimedia revolution with a range of semiconductor solutions for mobile digital television, digital TV and digital radio.

The company develops and delivers both the broadcast signal receiver modules and digital processing circuits as individual chips and complete system modules to leading consumer electronics and mobile phone brands.

As a fabless semiconductor business, Frontier Silicon's core products include complete DAB modules, T-DMB (terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting) solutions, and the underlying system-on-chip (SoC) devices and receiver chips.

Key customers for the company's products include consumer electronic, automotive entertainment and PDA/mobile phone manufacturers such as Bang & Olufsen, Cambridge Audio, Goodmans, Grundig, Hitachi, Ministry of Sound, Philips, PURE Digital, Roberts Radio, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and TEAC. Frontier Silicon has won a number of awards and its products have also enabled award-winning consumer products. The company's awards include the Fabless Semiconductor Association's start-up to watch award, PricewaterhouseCoopers hottest technology company of 2004 award, the World Economic Forum's technology pioneers to watch 2005, and the Tornado T100 award for one of the best-performing and innovative high-tech private companies.

Frontier Silicon uses MetaTM and UCCTM intellectual property from Imagination Technologies.

Contact

Anthony Sethill, CEO
Frontier Silicon
Tel: +44 (0) 1923 474200
Fax: +44 (0)1923 202251
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