Tvia Expands R&D And Infrastructure To Capitalize On Position In Interactive Markets

Tvia Introduces The Company And Its Products At CES

25-Jan-01

Tvia, Inc (NASDAQ: TVIA) is formally introducing the company and its products at CES. The company's market direction targets interactive applications in Internet appliance, broadband set top boxes and digital televisions. Reflecting this new focus, the company changed its name last year to Tvia (for television interactive) from iGST (iGS Technologies, Inc.). Specifically, Tvia designs, develops and markets high performance, streaming media processors for the Internet appliance, broadband set-top box and digital television markets. The company's CyberPro software-based product family offers the ability to simultaneously processes multiple streams of media content including video, audio, voice, text and animation. It performs scaling, de-interlacing, overlay and transparency, and picture-in-picture. Due to the software element of the CyberPro family, Tvia's solutions are flexible and upgradeable, allowing OEMs to develop multiple products from a single platform, with the ability to capture and process new media. The company has established partnerships with major real-time operating systems (RTOS) companies including WindRiver, Microsoft, QNX and Microware, middleware companies such as Liberate Technologies, and CPU companies including AMD, Hitachi, IDT, Motorola, NEC, PMC-Sierra (QED) and Transmeta. These partnerships enable OEMs to develop their products achieving overall system cost reduction and reduced time to market. Currently, Tvia works with Internet appliance, broadband set top box and digital TV manufacturers in the U.S., Europe and Asia including AOLTV, Acer, Sony, Fujitsu Siemens, Celerity, Legend Computing Group, Trinexus, Ch.1, Stellar One, iDVD and Metabyte Networks, among others. The company is managed by Kenny Liu, Chairman and CEO, Jack Guedj, President, Michael Hoberg, Vice President of Finance and CFO, J.C. Kuo, co-founder and CTO, Yee Wong, Vice President of Operations, James Tao, Vice President of Business Development, and Bo Liu, Vice President of Software Development. Tvia further strengthened its management team with the recent additions of Vahe Akay as Vice President of Marketing and Johnson Yan as Vice President of Hardware Development. Tvia has worldwide operations. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California with an R&D subsidiary in China, a technical support center in Holland and a sales and customer support office in Taiwan. In August 2000, Tvia added three influential leaders from the television and broadband industries creating an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to lend their individual expertise in guiding Tvia in its product and market development and strategic alliances. Members of the IAB include Mitchell Berman, former Senior Vice President at OpenTV Corp., Rick Friedland, currently on the board of several public and private companies in Internet and video communications and former chairman and CEO of General Instruments, and Mark Manigiola, President of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home. For more information about Tvia Inc., visit www.tvia.com.

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