Infineon Technologies, PacketVideo and Sci-worx Deliver Mobile Multimedia to Next Generation Wireles

Joint news release by Infineon Technologies, PacketVideo and sci-worx

Munich, Hanover, Germany and San Diego, Calif. – February 13, 2002 – Building on existing investment relationships, Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX), a leading provider of wireless semiconductor solutions, PacketVideo Corporation and sci-worx, a leading provider of intellectual property cores, today announced a technology integration alliance that will offer mobile users of GPRS and UMTS devices the richness of sight, sound, animation and moving pictures.

Under the agreement, PacketVideo’s standards compliant mobilemedia software, pvPlayer™, pvAuthor™ and pv2WAY™ respectively, as well as sci-worx video acceleration technology, will be tightly integrated into a variety of Infineon’s future mobile internet modem and application processor solutions, including the S- and M-GOLD family, for next generation mobile handsets.

This co-operation will provide wireless terminal manufacturers with comprehensive end-to-end-solutions including multimedia content encoding, distribution, transmission and decoding allowing the fast and reliable development of next generation media-enabled mobile phones for faster time-to-market.

According to the ARC Group, global sales of mobile phones incorporating streaming video capability is going to exceed 90 million units in 2005, growing to more than 150 million units in 2006.

“Our alliance with PacketVideo and sci-worx supports Infineon’s mission to provide our customers with sophisticated solutions for the wireless market,” said Ulrich Hamann, CEO of the Business Group Wireless Solutions at Infineon Technologies. “The integration of PacketVideo’s multimedia software and sci-worx hardware accelerators into our wireless chip offerings will enhance next generation mobile devices with full featured multimedia services.”

Infineon’s Wireless Solutions Group develops, produces and markets semiconductors and complete-system-solutions for a variety of mobile applications. The company is a leading provider of wireless solutions and a world leader in technology for the future mobile radio standard UMTS.

PacketVideo’s pvPlayer, pvAuthor and pv2WAY software have been ported to and optimized for Infineon’s first multimedia application processor demonstrator. PacketVideo’s video encoder and decoder software solutions take full advantage of sci-worx hardware accelerator modules. The hardware accelerators have been developed by sci-worx, in close co-operation with Infineon, focusing especially on low power consumption, power management and off-loading the processor core from compute intensive tasks. The accelerators are available for open licensing as MPEG-4 DesignObjects™ Family from sci-worx.

“We are pleased to provide the multimedia software platform for Infineon’s commercially proven wireless communications semiconductor solutions,” said Kathleen Peters, vice president of worldwide embedded solutions for PacketVideo. “The combination of Infineon’s system design and integration experience with our leading software platform enables a broad range of advanced mobile applications providing information, communication and entertainment services.”

PacketVideo’s leading end-to-end multimedia solution is a standards-compliant end-to-end system that comprises encoding, transmission and decoding software products that enable the delivery of audio, video, branded content and applications to mobile devices. PacketVideo’s products are compliant with standards and specifications from 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG-4, WAP, IETF and other global standards organizations and technical forums.