Digital TV SoCs from Newport Media to Power New Phones from

Digital TV SoCs from Newport Media to Power New Phones from Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and ZTE

Announces mass production of new models targeting Japanese and Latin American Smartphone and Feature phone markets

LAKE FOREST, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 28, 2012 — Newport Media, an innovative fabless communications semiconductor company supplying products to the wireless connectivity and broadcast media industry, today announced major design wins at several of the world’s leading suppliers of Smartphone and Feature phone cellular products.

Available in Latin America, new models using SoCs from Newport Media include the Motorola EX139, LG X350 (both dual SIM feature phones) and the Samsung Galaxy YTV S5357 Android Smartphone. In Japan, network operators have selected several Newport Media Digital TV enabled Android Smartphones including NTT DoCoMo’s SC-06D Galaxy III from Samsung, KDDI’s ISW13HT from HTC and Softbank’s 009Z from ZTE.

With the industry’s broadest portfolio of Mobile TV SoCs, Newport Media is experiencing rapid growth in demand for its complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) system on chip (SoC) solutions addressing the market for Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) based Mobile TV handsets. Newport Media provides a number of ISDB-T products that integrates RF TV Tuner and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) /Analog demodulation into a single die. Several ISDB-T products from Newport Media also include hardware based H.264 audio/video decoding functionality.

“Newport Media offers a comprehensive portfolio of embedded software solutions tailored for both the Japanese and Latin American ISDB-T markets,” said Mohy Abdelgany, president and chief executive officer for Newport Media. “These software solutions combined with wide variety of best in class SoC solutions from Newport Media have been a major contributing factor to our success with these new handsets being announced today, and are prime examples of the capabilities we bring to the table.”

Newport Media supplies ISDB-T SoC solutions to the majority of the Mobile TV enabled cellular handsets sold throughout the world and has recently reached a key milestone with cumulative shipments of more than 30 million CMOS SoCs that address the global market for ISDB-T standard broadcast Mobile TV.

About Newport Media, Inc.

Newport Media Inc. ("NMI") is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for broadcast, wireless connectivity and cellular markets. NMI leverages its unique OFDM baseband, RF, and mixed signal platform technologies to bring to market complete system solutions that are higher performance, lower power and more cost effective than competing solutions. NMI’s portfolio of broadcast communications products include a broad selection of integrated SOC solutions for Mobile TV, Cable, LCD and Set-top box applications. NMI’s wireless connectivity products include integrated SOC solutions for Wi-Fi™ applications. For more information, visit www.nmisemi.com.

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