Shipment milestone signals approval of Chorus: News from Frontier Silicon

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Frontier Silicon has shipped over half a million units of its digital audio broadcast (DAB) chips worldwide, making the company's Chorus chip the clear market leader in DAB devices. Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon says: "Shipping half a million products is an important milestone which we reached in December 2003 - just 18 months since we started shipping products. But what is particularly pleasing is the fact that nine out of the 10 radios recently reviewed in a group test by a leading hi-fi magazine contained our chips and modules, and the winning portable and personal radios from Bush and Pure Digital were also based on Frontier's components".

Sethill believes that the combination of Frontier Silicon's products enabling mass market digital radios and new content from the BBC, Digital One and other radio broadcasters, has helped catalyse the significant growth in digital radio over the last 12 months - so much so that many consumer product commentators put digital radio as one of the hottest items in Christmas shopping lists last December.

Sethill adds: "We are very excited about our prospects for continued growth.

The combination of our good market position and recent funding from Apax Partners and Alta Berkeley - two of the world's leading technology private equity investment groups - makes us one of the leading UK high-growth technology businesses in this sector, and allows us to further strengthen our leading role in the development of the digital radio market".

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News Release from: Frontier Silicon Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 January 2004

Shipment milestone signals approval of Chorus

Frontier Silicon has shipped over half a million units of its digital audio broadcast (DAB) chips worldwide, making the company's Chorus chip the clear market leader in DAB devices.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Frontier Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 January 2004