Vivante Extends Business Agreement with Top Ten Fabless Semiconductor Company

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--  October 02, 2008 --Vivante Corporation today announced a multi-million dollar, multi-year, multi-use extension to an existing 2007 license agreement covering Vivante GPU IP cores. This top ten fabless semiconductor vendor has produced first-pass, working silicon samples including Vivante GPU cores for multiple product lines spanning digital home entertainment products, as well as smart phone and MID application processors. One notable result of this collaboration is the world’s smallest KhronosTM Group compliant OpenGL® ES 2.0 GPU cores, occupying less than 3.5 mm2 in 65 nm silicon. This silicon footprint includes test structures with the GPU core running at 200 MHz in 65LP process technology. Vivante has achieved Khronos Group compliance for the GPU cores delivered under this agreement for OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVGTM 1.0.1, and OpenGL ES 1.1.

About Vivante Corporation

Vivante Corporation is a graphics technology company licensing 2D and 3D HD Visual RealityTM and Mobile Visual RealityTM GPU solutions to semiconductor solution providers targeting the high definition home entertainment, embedded mobile, image processing and automotive display and entertainment markets. Vivante’s GPU technology is architected from the ground up to deliver a high precision, ultra-threaded shader implementation which maximizes graphics performance and quality delivered per milliwatt of system power consumption with the smallest silicon footprint available today. Vivante Corporation is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a subsidiary in Shanghai, China.

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