Telegent Outlines Strategic Product Roadmap for Mobile TV

By Telegent Systems Inc., PRNE
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Analog and Digital Mobile TV Solution Portfolio to Set New Standards for System Cost, Performance and Ease of Use

SUNNYVALE, California and SHANGHAI, September 27, 2010 - Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today
outlined its roadmap for driving new industry standards for best-in-class
picture quality, system cost and power consumption in the analog TV receiver
market. Telegent's roadmap builds on its market leadership position, with the
company having shipped more than 90 million free-to-air mobile TV chips into
handsets sold globally since pioneering the technology in mid-2007. Telegent
also announced availability this year of hybrid single-chip digital and
analog TV receivers that enable its mobile handset customers to sell into
markets currently in transition from analog to digital TV standards.

"We are continuously and aggressively pursuing industry-leading positions
on the technical dimensions that matter most to our customers - picture
quality, size, power consumption and system cost," said Ford Tamer, president
and CEO of Telegent. "These best-in-class standards, delivered in tandem with
a comprehensive feature set, consumer user experience and handset brand and
operator relationships deliver unparalleled business benefits to our
customers."

Key elements underlying Telegent's 12-month roadmap include:

    - Continuous development of advanced algorithms that improve picture and
      audio quality
    - Continuous improvements to system design that reduce the number and
      cost of required external components
    - Continuous migration to smaller process geometries that reduce system
      size and power consumption
    - Expansion of supported TV standards
    - Ongoing investment in new architecture that leapfrogs existing cost and
      picture quality standards
    - Addition of features and software that improve the overall consumer
      experience and ease of use

The families of analog mobile TV solutions that will be released include:

    - TLG1122/23 series: Delivers improvements to picture quality, reduces
      the system bill of material and lowers current consumption. This is
      Telegent's second product family based on 65nm process geometry.
    - TLG121x and TLG123x series: Deliver dramatic gains in cost and
      performance by leveraging a revolutionary new architecture and set of
      algorithms.

The families of hybrid digital and analog mobile TV solutions include:

    - TLG118x series: Integrates ISDB-Tb and analog TV, addressing the Latin
      America market. This solution integrates H.264 and revolutionizes the
      Cost platform for ISDB-Tb solutions, enabling an expansion in the type
      and cost profile of handsets with digital mobile TV in the market.
    - TLG117x series: Integrates DVB-T and analog TV, with best-in-market
      picture stability under mobile conditions. This solution is shipping
      now to several markets in Southeast Asia.

"Telegent is our preferred hybrid analog/digital technology supplier
for mobile TV solutions in Latin America," said Jaime Narea, vice president
of Brightstar's ITC Division. "The combination of Telegent's technology
leadership, handset customer relationships and its support to our
organization in Latin America provides us assurance that we will be able to
respond rapidly to operator and retailer demand."

About Telegent Systems, Inc.

Telegent Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that enables the
reception of live, free-to-air analog and digital broadcast television in
mobile handsets and other portable consumer devices. Telegent's
television-on-a-chip solutions solve the long-standing technical challenges
that have precluded mobile reception of analog broadcast TV, enabling
manufacturers and operators to benefit from the convergence of broadcast TV
with mobile and portable devices. Telegent's products are the most widely
sold broadcast television solutions for mobile handsets in the world. For
more information, visit www.telegent.com.

Diana Jovin, VP Corporate Marketing of Telegent, +1-408-990-7092, djovin at telegent.com

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