Fortemedia has been providing state-of-the-art noise reduction and echo elimination technologies on its Small Array Microphone (SAM™) based voice processing ASICs to the mobile-phone industry for quite some time. In 2006, the top-selling Fujitsu DoCoMo Raku-Raku III mobile phone was the first to have incorporated small array microphone technologies in commercial mobile phone products. Today, many new mobile phone designs are using the latest generation of Fortemedia SAM™ based voice processing ASICs and technologies.

Fortemedia SAM™ based voice processing ASICs contains innovative signal processing techniques to provide:

· Non-stationary and stationary noise reduction
· Linear and non-linear acoustic echo elimination
· Automatic Volume Level and Dynamic Range control
· Bright Voice Enhancement technology
· Full-duplex and echo-free in handset and hands-free conversations
· Enhanced voice-recognition performances
· Extremely low battery power dissipation
· Prominently improved voice calling experiences for the near-end and far-end users