Cambridge UK July 2003 – Alphamosaic, the industry leading semiconductor company for mobile devices has announced a major joint initiative with Korea’s foremost mobile game and entertainment developer, ZIO Interactive.
Under the agreement, Seoul based ZIO Interactive will port a range of games to Alphamosaic’s video processor, VideoCore®, the world’s first low power, high quality processor for mobiles – PDAs, mobile phones and smart phones.
This groundbreaking collaboration means that for the first time, mobile device manufacturers will be able to offer customers a package of dynamic, graphics rich games delivered at previously unattainable levels of quality and low power consumption.
“Customer demand for mobile devices that are fully evolved entertainment centres is driving industry developments and the ability to access single and multi-player 2D and 3D games lies at the heart of that demand,” says Alan Henderson, Alphamosaic’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development who adds:
“The challenge facing the industry is to produce games that not only capture the consumer’s imagination, but are delivered at quality levels customers expect – no less than you get at home – and at a power requirement that doesn’t drain the life of the battery.”
With ZIO Interactive’s brand portfolio of market leading titles and its reputation for speed and game innovation, harnessed to VideoCore® as a powerful graphics processor – equivalent to 3GHz ARM – these challenges have been overcome.”
“Consumer demand for high performance mobile devices is rapidly changing. This presents the perfect opportunity for us to move forward with Alphamosaic and their technology VideoCore® in pioneering the 3D mobile gaming world.” Says Mr. Hongsuk Lee, Senior Vice President of ZIO Interactive.
Alphamosaic and ZIO Interactive will jointly market this new industry initiative to phone manufacturers worldwide and Alan Henderson is confident that the first phones using VideoCore® to deliver ZIO Interactive’s games will be available to customers by the fourth quarter of 2003.
“The Asia Pacific area leads the world’s mobile games market and generated revenues of $100 million in 2002. Revenues in 2003 are anticipated to reach $250 million,” says Alan who concludes:
“Mobile device owners, particularly in Asia, represent a sophisticated and demanding audience who will accept nothing less than a great gaming experience. This collaboration between Alphamosaic and ZIO Interactive will, we believe, more than match that expectation.”
Notes to Editors
Alphamosaic has recently also announced that it has secured $12 million in a Series B financing round which will be used to further fund the expansion of the product portfolio and its worldwide operations.
New investor Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures led the funding round. Existing investors Prelude, ACT and TTP Ventures all participated in the round as well.
Alphamosaic Limited develops semiconductors for video communications and multimedia applications. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge UK, Alphamosaic is a leading supplier into both video and image markets and is the supplier of choice to the consumer electronics and mobile handset markets around the world.
VideoCore®, Alphamosaic’s processor technology, is a flexible, low power, two- dimensional (DSP), making it easy to add video and multimedia to products.
For more information, please visit www.alphamosaic.com or email info@alphamosaic.com
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About ZIO Interactive
ZIO Interactive, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 to provide differentiated digital entertainment. The company’s first simulation golf game, Palm Golf, was selected by Microsoft to be part of the launch partner program for Microsoft Windows CE. ZIO Interactive has been chosen by Microsoft to participate as a Windows CE Partner at Comdex for the past few years. ZIO Interactive develops games for all major mobile computing platforms and plans to announce a variety of games in different categories this year.
For more information, please visit www.ziointeractive.com or email info@zio.co.kr