Rockchip and WebM Release RK29xx -- World's First SOC to Support WebM HD Video Playback in Hardware

LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

CES 2011 -- Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading developer of fabless semiconductors, today released its new RK29xx generation mobile Internet platform.

Rockchip 55-nm RK29xx solution is a high-performance, low-power processor designed for mobile internet applications. It integrates an ARM(R) Cortex-A8 CPU includes the NEON SIMD engine to improve software media processing capability. With TSMC advance process, the A8 core can enable up to 1.2GHz. RK29xx also provides FULL HD decoder and encoder processor, hardware accelerated Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 10.1, ultra powerful 3D/2D GPU, high speed internet surfing experience and more, now RK29xx supports Gingerbread (Android 2.3).

The RK29xx is the world's first system-on-a-chip (SOC) to support 1080P HD decoding of the VP8 video codec entirely in hardware. VP8 is the codec used in the open WebM video format. To build VP8 decoding into the RK29xx graphics accelerators, Rockchip licensed the WebM project's G-Series 1 video decoder IP design.

"Cooperating with WebM has brought the benefit of Rockchip's years of experience in the audio and video fields," said Chen Feng, Vice Present of Rockchip. "The successful support of VP8 marks China's semiconductor industry becoming international and Rockchip is devoted to continued support."

"We're very excited that Rockchip chose our G-Series 1 hardware design to add VP8 support to the RK29xx," said Jani Huoponen, Hardware Product Manager for the WebM project. "Playback of HD content in hardware is very important to the WebM project and we look forward to seeing deployment of devices powered by the RK29xx."

To get more information about Rockchip RK29xx Mobile Internet Solution, visit CES-- Booth 21725, South Hall Lower Level, or web site at http://www.rock-chips.com. For more information about VP8 and WebM, visit http://www.webmproject.org.

About Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd

Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd. is a China leading fabless semiconductors and mobile-internet SOC solution provider founded in Year 2001. Rockchip focuses on mobile Internet Platform with products targeted on Mobile Internet terminals (smart-phone/MID/Internet TV/e-Book) and portable multimedia entertainment terminals (MP3/PMP). Headquarter of Rockchip is situated in Fuzhou China, with offices in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. http://www.rock-chips.com

About WebM

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. To learn more, visit http://www.webmproject.org.