Sonic Network Announces Three License Agreements to Provide Embedded Audio for the China Mobile Market

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Sonic Network, Inc., a worldwide provider of audio synthesis technology to the handheld consumer device and musical instrument markets, today announced it has entered into agreements to license its EAS(TM) Embedded Audio Synthesis technology to Agere Systems, Fangtek Ltd. and one other well-known Chinese Semiconductor Corporation (to be made public in Q1-2005).

Global semiconductor company Agere licensed Sonic's EAS(TM) ringtone technology for its new GPRS/EDGE wireless phone reference platform. Fangtek Ltd., a fables IC design house, will utilize Sonic's EAS synthesis in a new family of multi-media processors aimed at the mobile audio and gaming industries. A third China-based semiconductor company, to be named in early 2005, has licensed Sonic Network's EAS wavetables to provide high-quality audio in its multi-media ICs targeting the fast-growing Chinese mobile phone market.

"We have seen growing user and OEM demand for higher quality audio capabilities in the mobile markets," said Jennifer Hruska, president of Sonic Network. "In particular, as China is expected to become one of the world's leading sources of demand for multimedia mobile devices, we have recently seen heavy interest in our Chinese instrument soundbanks."

"By offering a validated, fully tested integration of Sonic Network's EAS, we allow handset makers to rapidly accelerate time to market with new phones incorporating the latest MIDI ringtone technology," said Jeremy Curtis, Agere's product manager, "especially those targeting GPRS and EDGE solutions in the Asian markets."

"Our customers are demanding higher quality sound for their designs," said Fang Shen, President and CEO, Fangtek. "As Sonic's EAS design uniquely optimizes the size quality of the solution for very small processor and memory footprints, Fangtek's first product with Sonic's EAS technology will provide more polyphony at a superior performance/cost value, which is critical to competitiveness in the Chinese market."

About Sonic:

As a veteran product vendor with more than a decade's experience in audio synthesis technologies and content, Sonic Network continues to innovate in the music software, sound libraries, and embedded PC and wireless device markets. Sonic Network's Embedded Audio System (EAS) technology is a multi-platform audio synthesis engine for a variety of embedded audio systems and devices such as semiconductors, wireless handsets, PDAs, sound cards, toys, and other consumer devices.

Embedded Audio Synthesis and EAS are trademarks of Sonic Network, Inc.