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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Arc International PLC\n03 March 2008\n\nMedia Contact:\nJonah McLeod\nARC International\n+1 408 437 3477\[email protected]\n\n ARC Helps STEC's New MACH4 CompactFlash Capture\n HD Multimedia Content at Twice the Speed\n Of Competitive Offerings\n\n New ARC-Based(TM) MACH4 CompactFlash SSD Delivers 80 MB/s;\nAffords Professional Video Equipment A High Capacity Alternative to Hard Drives\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif., and ST. ALBANS, England, March 3, 2008 - ARC International\n(LSE: ARK) today announced that STEC Inc. (Nasdaq: STEC), a leading supplier of\nsolid state drives (SSDs), has extended its existing relationship with ARC and\ntaken a new license for ARC's configurable technology. The new license from a\nmajor flash memory supplier enhances ARC's position as one of the leading\nsuppliers in this growing market, which is forecast to surpass 1 billion units\nshipped per year according to Semico Research Corporation. This latest STEC\nimplementation of ARC's configurable core is contained in STEC's new MACH4\nCompactFlash device. Please see related news release dated February 26, 2008\nfrom STEC for more information (http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/080226/137051.html)\n\nSince 1994 STEC has been a leader in innovative solid state storage technology,\nwith particular emphasis on high performance and high reliability. STEC's\nARC-Based(TM) MACH4 enhances its SSD offering by providing CompactFlash storage\nwith twice the data transfer rate (up to 80MB/s) of other CompactFlash devices.\nThis performance opens up a new opportunity with professional video equipment\nmanufacturers, who have found hard drives a less-than-optimum storage media for\nhigh definition (HD) video. HD video cameras now have an SSD replacement for\nhard drives, which provide comparable storage capacity, but are smaller, consume\nless power, have no mechanical vibration, and offer higher performance.\n\nPatrick Wilkison, vice president of marketing and business development at STEC,\nsaid, \"ARC's configurable technology has enabled our engineering team to create\na highly differentiated product that provides a more optimized computing\nplatform to system OEMs. The result is a solution that delivers higher value by\ngreatly speeding access to stored digital and multimedia content.\"\n\nBill Jackson, vice president of marketing at ARC International, said, \"STEC is\namong...