Chipsbank Selects Vivante GPU IP for Consumer Electronics

Technology Leader in Low Power and Extended Battery Life

SUNNYVALE, CA -- May 11, 2009 -- Vivante Corporation today announced its silicon proven GPU IP has been selected by Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fast-growing, fabless IC design company that specializes in low power, high speed digital designs for consumer electronics across Asia.

 “We selected Vivante for their ability to deliver a fully-featured and market-ready solution with the lowest overall power consumption and silicon area,” said Henry Zhang, CEO of Chipsbank.  

“Our focus on complete solutions linked to the application ecosystem, delivered with the lowest power consumption and smallest silicon die size is an ideal match for Chipsbank’s requirements,” said Wei-Jin Dai, President and CEO of Vivante Corporation.  “We are proud to welcome Chipsbank to the growing list of Vivante licensees.”

About Vivante Corporation

Vivante Corporation is an embedded graphics technology leader, licensing its HD Visual Reality and Mobile Visual Reality IP to semiconductor solution providers that serve the high definition home entertainment, embedded mobile, image processing, and automotive display and entertainment markets.  The Vivante ScalarMorphicTM architecture brings a PC-quality visual experience to embedded systems.  Vivante GPUs produce the highest performance per square millimeter in half the final silicon area compared to other licensable GPU cores.  Vivante delivers silicon proven, low power, high performance graphics conformant with the OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 and OpenVG API standards.  The Vivante development environment is used by a worldwide network of application developers and ecosystem partners.  Vivante is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. www.vivantecorp.com

About Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd

Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd., provides system solutions, IC design, and services for digital audio and video processing, networking and storage, and consumer electronics.  Chipsbank designs result in IC chips that are high stability, high performance, and low cost.  Chipsbank is headquartered in ShenZhen, China.