Leadcore Adopts Hantro Video IP

Leading Video IP with more than one billion deployments

SHANGHAI, April 16, 2013  -- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a leading custom silicon solutions and semiconductor IP provider, announced today that the Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder have been adopted by Leadcore Technology Co., Ltd. (Leadcore), a leading TD-SCDMA and TDD-LTE telecom technology and solution company in China, in its series of high performance application processor chips. Hantro Video IPs enable Leadcore's products to achieve full HD, 60 frames-per-second video decoding and encoding capability, while supporting multiple video formats such as VP8 for WebM and WebRTC, H.264, MVC, MPEG-2/4, DivX, VC-1, RealVideo, AVS, and more.

"We have been working with Leadcore since their inception," says Dr. Wayne Dai, President and CEO of VeriSilicon. "We are confident that the 12th generation of Hantro video hardware decoder and encoder is the best choice for mobile internet devices to meet increasing demand on video performance."

As an eco-system partner of WebM Project, a Google initiative to promote open and royalty free media format, VeriSilicon can commercially license the Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder products to worldwide semiconductor companies and modify and enhance the Hantro Video IP through architecture modifications and feature enhancements. Hantro Video IP is deployed in more than one billion chips worldwide and used by more than 70 semiconductor companies.

"Hantro IP enables us to demonstrate the power efficiency and cost effectiveness of our video capability. We appreciate VeriSilicon's excellent technology strength and strong customer support," says Jitang Liu, Vice President of Leadcore. "Our products support multiple video formats including VP8, and have been used in many well known smart phones and tablets."

About VeriSilicon

VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon) is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry providing custom silicon solutions and System-on-Chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronics devices and systems such as smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, home gateways, networking and data centers.

Our technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing (ZSP®) cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, value-added mixed signal IP portfolio and other star IP into SoC platforms that can be targeted for a range of process technology nodes including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

VeriSilicon's services (design, software, and manufacturing) provide differentiation based on customer specific requirements which can range from initial SoC specification and embedded software to backend design implementation and volume production, utilizing multiple foundry partners, assembly and test companies worldwide.

Founded in 2002, VeriSilicon has more than 400 employees worldwide including more than 300 in Shanghai, China. VeriSilicon currently has research and development centers in Shanghai and Beijing, China; Santa Clara and Dallas, U.S.; and Oulu, Finland; with sales and customer support offices in Santa Clara, U.S.; Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, China; Taipei, Taiwan; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Nice, France and Munich, Germany.

For more information, please visit www.verisilicon.com.

For more information on Hantro G1 Multi-format Decoder and Hantro H1 Multi-format Encoder products, please visit www.verisilicon.com/hantro.

For more information on WebM free open media format, please visit www.webmproject.org.

About Leadcore

Leadcore Technology Co., Ltd. (Leadcore) is one of the core members of Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group, taking advantage of the core technologies and patents in TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE of Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group, has been dedicated to development of the core technologies of the TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE terminal for over 10 years.

The headquarters is located in Shanghai, and Leadcore has more than 1,000 employees in the world. Its TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE chips and overall solution covers the feature mobile phone, smart phone, and convergence terminal products, to provide more than 40 terminal manufacturers with the mature, stable and overall product solutions in the world.

Leadcore adheres to create the value for its customers by innovation, believes the charm of technology comes from the public meaning, tries its best to become the world leading mobiles internet chip and solution provider, and devotes to improve and enrich people's lives fundamentally.

For more information, please visit www.leadcoretech.com