3DsoundSurge Press Release: ALi Announces Advanced DVD Player Single-chip Solution

ALi Announces Advanced DVD Player Single-chip Solution

M3351 Integrates DVD Servo and MPEG-2 Decoder

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002--Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi), one of the world's leading integrated circuit solutions providers, today announces a single-chip solution for the next generation consumer electronics market with advanced integration of DVD Servo and Audio/Video (A/V) Decoder-M3351. ALi's M3351 is a highly integrated single chip solutions, which eliminates the need for more external chips. Therefore, effectively reducing the fundamental issues of a much lower overall system cost and increasing design efficiency.

"There is an unstoppable growing influence in the global digital arena, primarily for value-priced DVD home entertainment system," said Dr. Chin Wu, president of ALi. "This soaring demand is met with ALi's highly integrated M3351. M3351 is a single-chip solution which offers consumer electronics manufacturers the best way to capitalize into this enormously challenging market with unrivaled quality yet cost effective DVD Players."

M3351 provides superior image quality, leading-edge A/V performance and is deemed the most cutting edge solution for the next generation DVD Player applications. It has advanced the MPEG-2 core with integrated Micro Controller Unit (MCU), Progressive Scan Processor, TV encoder, Audio ADC and professional Karaoke to achieve the highest-level digital experience.

M3351 DVD single chip supports MPEG-2's Main Profile at Main Level (MP@ML) and JPEG decoding, for not only supporting for DVD/VCD movie disc playback, but also for browsing Digital Photo like Picture CD, and enabling fast-forward, slow motion and rewind features for these playbacks.

M3351's audio algorithms decode MPEG-1 layers 1 and 2, MP3, MPEG-2 multi-channel, Dolby ProLogic II(TM), Dolby Digital(TM), Digital Theater System (DTS(TM)), High Definition CD (HDCD) and Microsoft® Windows® Media Audio(TM) (WMA). In addition to hosting a set of professional Karaoke functions, the audio post-processing of M3351 has the power to propel cinema sound effects and virtual surround for down mixed multi-channel source through a fixed 2-channel speaker environment.

Another aspect of M3351 is its integrated servo controller. It is equipped with unmatched ability to detect error on the slightest damaged disk, an add-on feature much desired amongst consumer electronics suppliers.

"ALi's in-depth experience as an all-inclusive multimedia solution provider has yet again acclaimed leadership by providing industry's most innovative product for the strongest performance activity in the next generation consumer electronics market," said Dr. Chin Wu, president of ALi. "It is our goal to remain as the full-scale DVD components provider, attributed with supreme entertainment experience, superior image quality, and feature-rich integration to enable our customers with an unmatched flexibility while significantly diminish their development costs."

ALi (Acer Laboratories Inc.) is one of the world's leading suppliers of integrated circuits for a number of market segments including personal computers, PC peripherals, DVD players and embedded PC systems and appliances. Its product offerings include core logic chip sets, DVD products, and imaging peripherals. ALi was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with its North American & European operations based in San Jose, California. ALi is available on the web at http://www.ali.com.tw

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     ALi Taipei
     Gina Chao, 886-2-87522002
     ginachao@ali.com.tw