Hong Kong, China, 20 November 2007 - Legend Silicon Corporation (LS), a leading fabless semiconductor company that develops technology and products for digital broadcasting and broadband transmission and reception, and Excelpoint Technology Ltd (SGX: Excelpoint), a leading demand creation distributor of advanced technology active components and total solutions provider, today announced that the two companies will form a strategic distributorship engagement for the entire product range of Legend Silicon across the Asia-Pacific region.
“Legend Silicon Corporation is the first supplier of silicon solutions and products for digital terrestrial television in China based on the GB20600-2006 mandatory standard and is a leader in broadband wireless transmission technologies. Legend Silicon’s products can be used for a wide variety of end products and equipment, such as televisions, set-top-boxes, computer peripheral devices, portable televisions, mobile televisions, personal portable multimedia players (PMP) and cellular phones etc; this is our competitive edge in the market. The result of this joint effort will benefit our clients with innovative next-generation technologies and products,” said Albert Phuay, Excelpoint Chairman and Group CEO.
“Excelpoint has strong demand creation power with its leading Research & Development experience in the television, automotive and telematics, portable multimedia, and cellular phones industries. Its wide distribution network across the Asia Pacific region will push forward Legend Silicon’s technology and products, bringing digital television fixed and mobile solutions to the next level of enhanced viewing experience,” added Dr. Stone Shan, Legend Silicon Vice President for Sales.
About Legend Silicon Corp
Legend Silicon Corp is a fabless semiconductor company that develops technology and application-specific standard products (ASSP) for digital broadcasting and broadband transmission and reception. The company is a co-developer of the Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting (DTTB) System Standard (GB20600-2006) and provider of the Standard compliant demodulator products to enable fixed and mobile applications. Legend Silicon has operations in Fremont, Calif., Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin in China. It also maintains a joint DTV Research Center with Tsinghua University in Beijing. To learn more about Legend Silicon, visit http://www.legendsilicon.com.cn 。
About Excelpoint Technology Ltd
Excelpoint Technology Ltd is one of the region’s established electronic components distributor and an emerging industry player in design innovation and technology development. Its geographical reach spans the Asia-Pacific through a network of more than 30 offices across region. Excelpoint specializes in providing a broad spectrum of services that range the supply of the electronic components and chipsets to design and development services and the manufacturer of memory modules and communication products. The Group caters to the needs of the telecommunications, networking, consumer electronics, industrial and instrumentation electronics, automotive, computers and computer peripherals industries. Excelpoint Technology Ltd is a public listed company on the Singapore Exchange (SGX: Excelpoint). Information on Excelpoint and its services is available athttp://www.excelpoint.com.cn。
Media Contacts
Excelpoint Technology Ltd
Dalphine Chua
Tel:65-62106606
Email:dalphine.chua@excelpoint.com.sg
Josephine Ng
Tel:852-22629161
Email:josephine.ng@excelpoint.com.hk
Legend Silicon Corporation
Priscilla Zhang
Tel:86-10-51266606-8503
Email:pris@legendsilicon.com.cn
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