Newport Media Announces Acquisition of Mobile TV Middleware Developer WRG

Leading Supplier of DVB-T/H Middleware Significantly Enhances Newport Media’s Ability to Bring Optimized Turn-Key Mobile TV Systems Solutions to Market

Lake Forest, California — Newport Media, an innovative fabless semiconductor company supplying products to the mobile broadcast media market, today announced the acquisition of industry leading DVB-T/H middleware company WRG Inc. Based in Bundang, Korea. WRG Inc. specializes in software products and services for multi-media and digital TV enabled mobile handsets.

“Newport Media is very excited about the addition of WRG to the Newport Media team,” said Mohy Abdelgany, president and chief executive officer for Newport Media. “WRG’s proven middleware significantly enhances Newport Media’s DVB-T/H systems solution offering from day one and their extensive experience supporting top tier handset customers in commercializing this type of product is a major asset.”

With over 70 SW (software) Engineers from top tier Korean universities, WRG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newport Media Inc, will focus on extending its leadership position in mobile TV middleware beyond its Jelly DVB-T/H solution to include middleware for ISDB-T, MediaFLO and other major standards.

“Newport Media’s best in class DVB-T/H SOC and WRG’s commercially proven Jelly DVB-T/H middleware form a powerful combination,” said Jason Kang, chief technical officer for WRG. “We have already seen significant performance and feature advantages coming from the tight coupling between and demodulator and middleware functions. WRG is very excited about extending these advantages to other major mobile TV standards.”

Mobile TV solutions powered by Newport Media’s Sundance Series of SOCs and WRG middleware will be demonstrated next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Visit Newport Media at its booth at Hall 2 – H04 for more details.