Multiple Vendors Jump on Storm of Hottest Internet and PC Trends With Wireless Laptop to HDTV 'Killer App' of Wireless USB

By Wisair, PRNE
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Products now available in leading online stores and retail chains

CAMPBELL, California, December 16 - Wisair (www.wisair.com/), a leading vendor of Wireless USB single
chip based solutions, announced today that over 10 consumer-electronics
vendors are now offering "Wireless Laptop to HDTV" products using its WSR601
CMOS single chip. Enabling users to wirelessly watch any laptop content and
any Internet web site on their HDTV, these products capitalize on the hottest
Internet usage trends (viewing online video and TV), hottest PC trends
(smaller form factor laptops storing personal content) and the popularity of
HDTVs, all together creating a huge demand for wireless connectivity between
the laptop and the HDTV.

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Wisair's customers offering the "Wireless Laptop to HDTV" products
include Source R&D (Warpia) (www.warpia.com/), Lenexpo (Atlona) and
Cables Unlimited in the USA, Olidata, Digicom, XEL (Q-Waves)
(www.q-waves.com/) and More Monitors in Europe. Other customers of
Wisair offering additional Wireless USB solution include Fujitsu, Hama and
Display Solutions in Europe, InFocus in the USA, Witech in Korea and others
soon to be disclosed.

Products are now available in leading online stores and retail chains,
such as Frys, TigerDirect, Amazon, PC World, Staples, Buy.com, Dell.com,
Dixons and others, with price range of $129-$149 (USA), 109-119 Euro (Europe)
and 99 GBP (UK), for a complete "Wireless Laptop to HDTV" set.

Wisair has shipped 300k units of its CMOS single chip in the past year
alone and already sees a sharp incline in its order intake for 2010, which is
expected to be the booming year for Wireless USB with the "Wireless Laptop to
HDTV" connectivity being the clear "killer app."

Internet and PC Usage Trends Call for Wireless Laptop to TV Connectivity

    - Internet has become the number one source for video and other types of
      content. Watching online video outranks many other online activities
      today (amongst American adults, more than 60% of Internet users watch
      video online). Television channels, news clips and a myriad of video
      clips, from pure fun to product user guides, all are available at
      online popular sites such as YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, BBC iPlayer,
      Amazon Video, MLB, etc. Recently, for the first time for a show this
      size, a U2 concert was streamed live online and about 100 million users
      watched it in its entirety for free... on YouTube!
    - Laptop PCs are more popular than desktop PCs. The market share for
      laptops is increasing at the expense of desktop PCs.
    - Laptop PCs screens have become smaller. While mobility is enhanced with
      smaller-sized laptops/netbooks, it becomes ever harder to watch content
      for a long period of time or share content with others, due to small
      screens.
    - Laptop PCs store personal information. Photos from our digital still
      cameras, clips from our camcorders - they are all stored in our laptop
      PCs.
    - HDTVs have become affordable and very popular. With their digital
      interfaces, flat TVs, which are now commonly found at homes and offices
      alike, enable new user experience and displaying of content far beyond
      traditional TV channels via cable or terrestrial broadcast.

Wireless Laptop to HDTV Product Features

    - Universal solution - small size PC Adapter connects to a USB port
      available in all laptops, and A/V Adapter connects to an HDMI port,
      available in all flat-panel TVs.
    - Unlimited content - whatever you can display on the laptop screen you
      can watch on the TV, including ANY Internet web site, online movies,
      online TV channels, downloaded movies, camcorder clips, personal
      images, documents, etc.
    - Display mode that allows viewing different content on your laptop
      screen and TV screen; continue working while your children watch an
      online movie or online TV channel.
    - HD video
    - In-room operation (full room coverage, not through walls)

Supporting Quotes

Jeff Ravencraft, President and Chairman of the USB Implementers Forum:

"Wireless USB is a great technology to address the emerging trend of PC
and home theater convergence. The launch of new consumer products based on
Wisair's Wireless USB solution by several vendors around the world as well as
in leading online stores and retail chains, demonstrates the consumer demand
for an easy to use, high data rate, wireless connection. Wireless USB
delivers the performance and capabilities required for a new generation of
products that allow consumers to extend their PC experience into the living
room."

Lisa Arrowsmith, Market Analysts at IMS Research

"The clear trends of how Internet content is consumed by users, the small
form factor of laptops and the popularity of flat TVs, call for a convenient,
easy to use wireless connection between laptops and TVs. This is where
Wireless USB plays a lead role as it allows for such connectivity even with
heavy content. Size and cost are low and it operates simultaneously with the
wireless home or office network. This is why 'Wireless Laptop to TV' could
well be the killer application for Wireless USB. Wisair's Laptop to HDTV
solution enables vendors to offer what seems to be one of the coolest
products in 2009, with great potential for 2010."

David Yaish, Wisair President and CEO

"We see huge demand for our Wireless Audio-Video solution in a growing
number of vendors who wish to launch Wireless Laptop to HDTV products based
on it. Users clearly require this product, as there is no simple way to
connect any Laptop to any HDTV, and to get access to the ENTIRE Internet On
TV. Wisair will be offering enhanced versions of this solution, including
support higher resolutions of Full HD and beyond and also MAC OS for Apple
platforms. Our current solution is a perfect fit to today's HD content
availability for PC, the mainstream laptop configuration and the video
capabilities of fast Internet."

Wisair @ CES 2010

At the coming Consumer Electronics Show (CES, January 7th-10th in Las
Vegas
), Wisair (www.wisair.com/) will demonstrate "Wireless Laptop to
HDTV" products that have recently been launched to the market based on its
Wireless USB Audio/Video Adapter Set Solution
(www.wisair.com/flash/wireless_usb_audio_video_looping.html). Wisair
will be exhibiting at the Hilton Las Vegas in its hospitality suite #4-106
(located in the north tower).

About Wisair

Wisair is a fabless semiconductor company providing Ultra Wideband (UWB)
and Wireless USB solutions based on its CMOS single chip. Recognized for
their superior coverage, and throughput, Wisair's solutions offer the best
combination of performance, price, and power consumption for Wireless USB.
For more information about Wisair and about products based on our technology
visit: www.wisair.com/shop/

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