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SigmaTel Announces Availability of Production Ready Reference Platforms Optimized for Video Capability of STMP3600

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 12:00 CDT

SigmaTel Inc., (NASDAQ:SGTL), a leader in mixed-signal multimedia solutions, announces availability of production ready optimized multimedia players based on the STMP3600. These players provide SigmaTel's customers cost effective, superior video capabilities for next generation multimedia players, enabling 30 frames per second QCIF or 24 frames per second QVGA video playback. The first generation software operating on these players supports MPEG4 Simple/Advanced Simple and WMV9/VC-1 Simple/Main Profiles. Future versions of this software will add H.264, AVS or RMVB functionality and other video standards as the market dictates. All STMP3600-based players benefit from SigmaTel's integration via innovation offering a SoC with superior functional integration and long battery life.

SigmaTel production ready players allow customers to offer digital multimedia players with up to 3.5 hours of battery life on a 1.5" display for the upcoming 2006 Back to School and Holiday seasons. The STMP3600 is SigmaTel's fourth-generation of SoCs for the portable audio/personal entertainment market.

"Currently, SigmaTel Optimized Video technology is designed into several production ready players demonstrating its superior video quality and long battery life," said Phil Pompa, senior vice president, Portable System on Chip Group at SigmaTel. "SigmaTel's designs provide a complete solution allowing manufacturers to deliver a multimedia player with video capabilities quickly to the market."

An example of a production ready design with video capabilities is the Shinefar S100, a reference design created by SigmaTel to showcase the video capabilities of the STMP3600. This player offers manufacturers and brand customers the following features and benefits: -- 30 FPS QCIF and 24 FPS QVGA -- 3.5 hours of battery life on 1.5" display -- 1.5 hours of battery life on 2" display -- Removable media for low initial price points with added available memory from SD or MMC cards to satisfy customers' needs for higher capacity -- Estimated BOM without flash: under $32 USD -- Weight: under 52 grams -- Graphical User Interface -- Various flash configuration up to 8 GB flash Shinefar S100 - STMP3600 3600 multimedia player Specifications: -- STMP3650/60 + STFM1000 SigmaTel's FM Tuner Solution -- 2-inch 176x220 65k-color TFT -- 8MB SDRAM -- 2GB NAND flash easily upgradeable for additional flash capacity -- Media playback : MP3/WMA/OGG, JPEG, MPEG4 - 30fps, WMV - 30fps -- Voice Recording -- Microsoft PlaysForSure 2.0 Audio (optional) -- Mic-in/Line-in/Headphone -- 400mAh battery: audio playtime: 28 hr, video playtime: 1.5 hr -- User interface: Graphical UI -- Product size: 76.6 x 49 x 14.6 mm -- Built-in microphone -- Built-in 0.5W mono speaker (optional) -- Ports :built-in standard mini-USB port, stereo headphone jack

Availability:

The S100 and other new production ready players will sample starting at Computex 2006. Throughout Computex, invitation-only demonstrations of SigmaTel's video SDK (version 4.3) will be shown on the 13th floor of the Grand Hyatt Taipei. Invitations to the demonstrations can be arranged through a SigmaTel customer sales contact. The video SDK 4.3 provides easy to modify software and a wide range of features. This SDK will be available for delivery after Computex.

For more information on SigmaTel, please visit www.sigmatel.com.

About SigmaTel:

SigmaTel, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Austin, Texas, designs, develops, and markets proprietary, analog intensive, mixed-signal ICs for a variety of digital multimedia products in the consumer electronics and computing markets, including portable compressed audio players, such as MP3 players, notebook and desktop PCs, digital video cameras, multi-function peripheral products, digital televisions, and set-top boxes. SigmaTel provides complete, system-level solutions that include highly-integrated ICs, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs, and applications support. The Company's focus is on providing system-level solutions that enable customers to rapidly introduce and offer electronic products that are small, light-weight, power-efficient, reliable, and cost-effective. SigmaTel is ISO 9001:2000 certified and is committed to providing customers with high performance, quality products along with superior customer service.

Cautionary Language:

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current SigmaTel expectations. The words "expect,""will,""should,""would,""anticipate,""project,""outlook,""believe,""intend," and similar phrases as they relate to SigmaTel or future events are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current views and assumptions of SigmaTel, but are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, and there will be events in the future that SigmaTel is not able to accurately predict or control. For a more detailed discussion of factors that could impact SigmaTel's financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to recent SigmaTel filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K that was filed on February 24, 2006 and the most recent form 10-Q that was filed on May 10, 2006.

SigmaTel is a registered trademark of SigmaTel, Inc. All other products and brand names as they appear in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. All specifications may be changed without notice.

Source: Business Wire

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