Press Release

ThinkNavi Picks RMI Alchemy Au1250 Processor for ThinkNavi T7 DVB-T Portable Navigation and
Mobile TV Media Player

Alchemy Au1250 Media Processor powers Navigation-based Portable Media Player for ThinkNavi’s
European Market Entry

CUPERTINO, Calif. and TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2008 — RMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processor Solutions for Communications Infrastructure, Enterprise and Media Rich Applications, today announced that Thinkware, a leader in the personal and portable navigation industry, has selected the RMI Alchemy™ Au1250™ Processor for its ThinkNavi T7, a DVB-T based Portable Media Player for the European Market.

The ThinkNavi T7 is a 7-inch personal navigation device running a 500MHz RMI® Alchemy™ Au1250 Processor. The device operates on WinCE 5.0 and comes with a complete European map for navigation, DVB-T, picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities and AV-in for rear camera viewing (safe parking and rear drive). The T7 also comes with complete media capability, including the support of all common audio and video formats as well as E-Book functionality.

"The integrated MPEG-2 video support provided by the Au1250 Media Processor enables a cost effective DVB-T-based mobile TV solution with excellent navigation performance. We have worked with the RMI Alchemy team on many of our successful PND product lines, and are pleased with the performance, low power and integration that RMI provides. We are confident that the T7 will help us execute our growth strategy across Europe." said Konan Kim, CTO and vice president, Thinkware.

“Thinkware is expanding its leadership in multifunction navigation products by bringing media and mobile TV to the European PND market. We are very happy to be working with an innovator such as ThinkWare in this important growth area,” says Rob Oliver, director, Media Processing Solutions at RMI.

The RMI Alchemy Au1200™ Processor Family addresses the needs of consumer media applications by offering a high-performance, low-power processor capable of delivering a rich multi-media experience to end users under a 1/2 watt (450mW). The Au1200 Processor Family consists of the Au1200, the Au1210™ and the Au1250, media processors targeted for full-featured Portable Media Players, Personal Navigation Devices (PND) and MobileTV. The RMI Alchemy product line provides system designers an easy-to-use, simple solution to create full-featured consumer solutions with greatly reduced design cycle times.

About ThinkNavi
ThinkNavi is the global brand of Thinkware Systems Corporation, located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Thinkware Systems Corporation is the leading provider of navigation and LBS solutions for the automotive and mobile device industries since early 1997 and the No.1 market player among the navigation market with almost 50% of market share in Korea. With its own in-house developed navigation systems, covering hardware as well as its own software, Thinkware/ThinkNavi is using its successful market know-how for now entering Western Europe, introducing the portable navigation device ThinkNavi UZ. www.ThinkNavi.com

About RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad platform of advanced MIPS®-compatible processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company's website at http://www.RMICorp.com.


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