Top Multimedia Tech Company, AVerMedia, Picks Xceive® for Breakthrough TV Tuner Technology for New PC-TV Designs

Xceive and AVerMedia to show the industry's first Xceive-based mini-PCI TV card January 6-9 in Las Vegas, NV

SANTA CLARA, CA – January 3, 2005 – Xceive® Corporation (www.xceive.com) announced today that prestigious, global multimedia market leader, AVerMedia Technologies (www.avermedia.com), has adopted Xceive’s one-design-fits-all-TV-standards, single-chip TV tuner for many of their new PCTV cards including a mini-PCI TV card. AVerMedia and Xceive will preview these new products at an invitation-only suite at the Sahara Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, from January 6-January 9, 2005. Incorporating Xceive’s XC2028™ universal, analog RF-to-baseband, TV tuner IC (integrated circuit), AVerMedia’s first Xceive-based PC-TV product, code name M104, is a Windows XP MCE-compliant mini-PCI TV tuner card geared toward the booming notebook ODM (Own Design Manufacturing) market.

Xceive's new RF-to-baseband TV tuner chip architecture with QuickTune™, enables global players in multimedia and presentation technologies, such as AVerMedia, to come to market quickly with better quality, faster performing and smaller sized PC-TV and advanced TV products. Xceive’s RF-to-baseband analog–and industry breakthrough analog a nd digital–universal TV tuner ICs, allow manufacturers to leverage one advanced TV design across the planet.

According to Dr. J. Allan Yang, executive vice president and CTO of AVerMedia, “AVerMedia is proud of our reputation for providing outstanding market-leading multimedia products for consumers and ODMs everywhere. As our RF-to-baseband tuner IC technology supplier of choice, Xceive allows us to expand our PC-TV product line across national boundaries, without having to create new designs in order to meet each and every TV standard. Xceive, like AVerMedia, believes that technology innovation, teamed with market leadership, will bring exciting new features to the PC-TVs and advanced media centers of tomorrow.”

“It is gratifying to have AVerMedia, one of the leading multimedia design and manufacturers worldwide in each of their product categories, chose Xceive as their RF-to-baseband TV tuner IC ‘partner,’ so soon after our first products were available for sampling in September of 2004,” said Jordan Du Val, Xceive’s vice president of sales and marketing. “The combination of Xceive’s unique and highly integrated RF-to-baseband TV tuner technology, with AVerMedia’s global reach and established market leadership will ultimately benefit consumers everywhere who expect exciting, high-quality and affordable PC-TV innovations .”

About Xceive Corporation
Venture-backed Xceive® Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, enables fast, high-quality TV signal reception in any consumer electronics device worldwide. First to market with a one-design-fits-all-TV-standards analog and digital single chip design, Xceive?s QuickTune® RF-to-baseband single IC (integrated circuit) TV tuners provide superior performance, low power, and smaller form factor for the development of advanced TV and PC-TV applications. Xceive?s universal RF-to-baseband analog?and breakthrough RF-to-baseband analog and digital?TV tuner ICs, reduce the need for OEMs to maintain multiple inventories in order to service a global market. Visit www.xceive.com or email info@xceive.com for more information. 408.486.5610 tel ? 408.486.5615 fax.

About AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.
AVerMedia (www.avermedia.com) is the technology leader in Digital Multimedia Video Convergence Technology. Aside from its full line of TV Tuners/ Personal Video Recorder products, AVerMedia provides Document Cameras, Digital Video Maker, TV Photo Viewer and PC-to-TV Converters for consumer and corporate/ educational markets. AVerMedia also partners with PC ODMs for the development of AVerMedia’s technologies for integration applications.

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