Xceive Partners With JAZZ Semiconductor

Jazz Advanced Analog/RF Process Technology Used for Performance Breakthroughs in Xceive’s One-Design-Fits-All-TV-Standards Single-Chip TV Tuner.

SANTA CLARA and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., January 5, 2005—Xceive® Corporation, a leading-edge developer of RF-to-baseband receiver ICs, today announced it has selected Jazz Semiconductor as its foundry partner for its family of highly integrated RF-to-baseband silicon TV tuners. Xceive used Jazz Semiconductor’s proven, high volume silicon germanium BiCMOS (SiGe BiCMOS) process to make the smallest, high performance RF-to-baseband TV tuner on the market with breakthroughs in video quality and a high video signal to noise ratio.

Xceive’s single-chip silicon tuner replaces the traditional double conversion can tuners. The new Xceive single chip tuner provides a more reliable production environment, a higher level of integration, better video and audio performance, lower power consumption and up to ten times faster channel scanning than traditional conversion can tuners. While a channel scan could take as long as three minutes in a traditional can tuner system, the same task can be performed in only three seconds with Xceive’s tuner; a significant difference when trying to acquire channels for both digital and analog TV broadcasts.

Xceive offers two, singl e-chip, 7 X 7 mm, 48-pin MLF packaged, TV tuners manufactured on Jazz’s silicon germanium semiconductor process: the Xceive XC2028™ and the Xceive XC3028™. Due to Jazz’s leading-edge process, the XC3028 achieves the highest level of integration on the market and uniquely combines all analog and all digital TV standards in one tuner IC, while the XC2028 handles all analog TV standards. Xceive’s QuickTune™ tuner ICs enable manufacturers to come quickly to market and offer higher quality, faster
performance, and smaller form factor designs. With a universal TV standards-architecture, Xceive’s RF-to-baseband TV tuner ICs eliminate the need for OEMs to maintain multiple tuner inventories to service a global market.

"The combination of Jazz’s advanced 0.18 BiCMOS process with Xceive’s high-performance silicon germanium tuner design, allows us to bring to market the industry’s first universal, highly integrated RF-to-baseband TV tuner for OEMs worldwide," said Jordan Du Val, vice president of sales and marketing, Xceive Corporation. "Xceive’s all-standards single-chip TV tuner ICs, manufactured on Jazz’s silicon germanium process, enable unprecedented
size reduction and outstanding performance for advanced TV applications in a wide range of form factors - from mini-PCI cards and USB dongles to high-definition plasma TVs.&quo t;

The concept of TV anywhere is becoming more prevalent as the sophistication of electronics significantly increases with products such as advanced TVs and PCTVs. Xceive’s single-chip silicon RF-to-baseband TV tuner can receive television signals in any consumer electronics device, anywhere in the world, regardless of the local standards requirement.

"Our SiGe BiCMOS process technology and design platform is well-suited to address the rapidly growing silicon TV tuner market and is designed to enable customers like Xceive to manufacture high performance, cost effective devices," said Paul Kempf, Jazz Semiconductor chief technology and marketing officer. "We look forward to maintaining our successful partnership with Xceive as they continue their leadership in delivering unique applications to the marketplace."

About Xceive Corporation
Xceive is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001, and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Xceive’s QuickTune™ technology enables superior image quality, low power, and performance for a myriad of consumer electronic products. With a focus on single-chip RF-to-baseband transceiver ICs, Xceive enables TV signal reception in any consumer electronics device, worldwide.

About Jazz Semiconductor
Jazz Semiconductor is an independent wafer foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, including SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS for the manufacture of highly integrated analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. Jazz’s executive offices and its U.S. wafer fabrication facilities are located in Newport Beach, California. Jazz has expanded its wafer capacity in China through manufacturing partnerships with Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co., Ltd. Contact Jazz Semiconductor.

TRADEMARKS: Xceive, QuickTune, XC2028 and XC3028 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xceive Corporation. Other products and companies are trademarked by their respective owners.