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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 7924V Arc International PLC 03 June 2008 \n\nMedia Contact:\nLee Garvin FlanaginARC International+1 408 437 [email protected]\n\n \n\n\nARC Announces Partnership with ViXS Systems\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif., and ST. ALBANS, England, June 3, 2008 - ARC International (LSE: ARK), a leading provider of consumer intellectual property (IP) to OEM and semiconductor companies, announced today that ViXS Systems Inc., has taken a license for ARC's multimedia solutions for use in its XCode™ chipset family. The XCode family has been a catalyst for one of the hottest trends in consumer electronics: the video processing of multiple high definition (HD) video streams. Consumers are fueling the need to have HD video content delivered throughout the home, and according to market analysts close to 200 million households will have HD televisions by 2012. \n\nA key part of ViXS's decision to adopt ARC for its XCode chipset family was the multimedia expertise ARC obtained through its recent acquisitions, including Alarity and Teja. \n\nThe ARC-Based™ XCode chip already has demonstrated impressive HD video processing performance and is being used by leading CE manufacturers. Products currently incorporating ViXS's XCode include PVRs that process and store many hours of HD content, place shifting products that distribute HD content over the Internet, PCs that transcode HD video content to popular mobile device formats and Advanced Digital TVs (DTVs). \n\n\"The consumer electronics industry is moving at a rapid pace towards processing, storing and streaming HD content throughout the home,\" said Sally J. Daub, president and CEO, of ViXS Systems. \"XCode is the first single-chip multi-stream HD video processing product shipping in the market today with leading CE manufacturers. Its flexibility enables our OEM and ODM customers the ability to provide compelling HD functionality to consumers: streaming HD vid...