Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Fabric for Tablets and Other High-End Consumer Electronics

CAMPBELL, California - July 8, 2014 - Arteris Inc., the inventor and leading supplier of silicon-proven commercial network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP solutions, today announced that Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics has licensed the Arteris FlexNoC fabric IP to improve performance of their ARM11-based IMAPx220 high-performance multimedia applications processor product line. The IMAPx220 can be applied to high-end hand-held multimedia devices, navigation devices, mobile Internet devices, netbooks, e-books and other consumer electronic applications.

"After our investigation, we saw that Arteris FlexNoC was the best SoC fabric technology that would provide dual channel memory support and address high speed routing congestion issues," said Mr. Kurt Zhang, Product Director at Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics. "Versus traditional bus and crossbar fabrics, the FlexNoC fabric IP enables very wide on-chip bandwidth and lower latency to address our high bandwidth processing needs."

"We are honored that Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics has chosen Arteris FlexNoC as the backbone for their most sophisticated IMAPx220 multimedia applications processor," said K. Charles Janac, President and CEO of Arteris. "We are proud that InfoTM is using Arteris technology to help enable the world's most sophisticated consumer electronics products."

About Arteris

Arteris, Inc. provides Network-on-Chip interconnect IP and tools to accelerate System-on-Chip semiconductor (SoC) assembly for a wide range of applications. Rapid semiconductor designer adoption by customers such as Samsung, Altera, and Texas Instruments has resulted in Arteris being the only semiconductor IP company to be ranked in the Inc. 500 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists in 2012 and 2013. Customer results obtained by using the Arteris product line include lower power, higher performance, more efficient design reuse and faster SoC development, leading to lower development and production costs. More information can be found at www.arteris.com.

About Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics

Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is a professional IC design company which is dedicated to the research and development of its applications processor chip. InfoTM's chips are mainly applicable to multimedia terminals, intelligent terminal, high definition video, and other high-end consumer electronic products. Meanwhile, InfoTM can provide solutions that offer high integration, high stability, high-performance and low cost for the terminal manufacturers and the other links of the industrial chain.

Since InfoTM was established, InfoTM always hold the idea of independent innovation as InfoTM's technical research and development direction, taking talented people, using globalized development fields of vision, establishing up close interaction between chip technical research and product application development, and finally technical and the industrial interaction development models. InfoTM hopes to improve the quality of digital life，to create a world-class technology and services, and to make more people enjoy the wonderful digital life!