June 28, 2002 - Fortemedia Inc., a privately held company in Cupertino, California, announces several new major automotive suppliers designing Hands Free Car kits with Fortemedia’s AMBIN FM1061 single chip solution.

FM1061 voice processor, the first member of AMBIN (Array Microphone Beam-forming Integrated with Noise-suppression) product family, features excellent acoustic echo cancellation, unique side tone cancellation, and advanced noise suppression. This highly integrated mixed signal chip is ideal for hands-free and noise-free speaker phone applications such as Hands-free Car Kits, Telematics, or automotive electronic devices.

Other Key Features of FM1061

• High integration (DSP, two A/Ds, two D/As, ROM, and RAM) and small footprint (48pin LQFP).
• Programmability with an optional EEPROM for customization
• Universal interface to support microphone in, speaker out, line in, line out, UART, I2C, I2S, and CHI bus interface
• No need for external microcontroller

Testimony From Customers:

• Vehicle Systems, Korea

“Fortemedia’s AMBIN FM1061 offers a complete voice processing front end solution with an excellent acoustic echo cancellation in a very small package. This feature enables Vehicle System to build a highly integrated one piece Hands Free Car Kit with built-in microphone and speaker to meet the space and performance requirements of our customers such as Hyundai and Kia motor” said Mr. Choi Kyung Su, president of Vehicle Systems.

• Hamg Shing, Taiwan

To meet very broad customers’ requirements and short time-to-market, Hamg Shing selects Fortemedia’s FM1061 as the platform for our Hands Free Telematics solutions. FM1061 has superior acoustic echo cancellation with optional side tone cancellation resolving major system howling problems. The complete integration of hardware and software of FM1061 allows Hamg Shing to significantly shorten the time to market of our automotive products.

About Fortemedia

Fortemedia Inc. is a voice processing company enabling noise free mobile communications. Integrating array microphone technology and mixed signal technology, the company is focused on high growth markets for handsets, automotives, and other mobile devices.

Company URL:
www.fortemedia.com

Contact:

Hans Wang, Sr. Director of Marketing, hwang@fortemedia.com

408-8618088x119