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DivXNetworks Launches Official DivX Certified Partner Program
Texas Instruments, Philips, Equator Technologies and Ingenient Technologies Announced as Inaugural Suite of DivX Certified Partners
San Diego, CA-September 18, 2002-DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the revolutionary patent-pending DivX ™ video compression technology, today announced the launch of a new DivX Certified partner program to ensure best-of-class DivX certified solutions for next generation consumer electronics devices.

Four companies were announced as the inaugural suite of official DivX Certified partners: Texas Instruments, Inc (NYSE: TXN); Philips (NYSE: PHG); Equator Technologies; and Ingenient Technologies. Each company has been officially certified through a rigorous testing process to ensure that their solutions are fully compatible with the entire suite of DivX technologies.

The new DivX Certified partner program was created to certify companies that are working with DivXNetworks to enable the creation of official DivX consumer electronics devices. There are three categories of DivX Certified partners: DivX Certified Hardware Partners, DivX Certified Embedded Software Partners, and DivX Certified Consumer Electronics Devices.

DivX Certification includes a full DivX development kit to help third parties make their existing solutions compatible with DivX technology, or to help them create new solutions from scratch. DivX Certified partner solutions are co-marketed by both companies to consumer electronics manufacturers who want to offer their customers DivX compatibility in next-generation devices. The official DivX Certified solutions will power DivX-enabled products including portable video players, DivX compatible DVD players, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, set-top boxes, home media gateways and more.

"We created the DivX Certification process to guarantee that consumers will receive only the highest-quality experience when they purchase next-generation devices that carry the DivX brand name," said Jordan Greenhall, co-founder and CEO of DivXNetworks, Inc. www.divxnetworks.com. "We are providing full development, marketing and sales support to ensure that DivX Certified solutions meet the global demand we've seen for high-quality DivX-powered devices."

As official DivX Certified Hardware partners, Texas Instruments, Philips and Equator Technologies are working closely with DivXNetworks to create DivX certified solutions to power a wide range of next-generation video convergence devices.

"We are excited to join with DivX to ensure our OEMs have the latest video compression technology for their next generation products," said Raj Chirayil, business development manager, Audio and Infotainment Group, Texas Instruments. "The inherent programmability of TI's DSP architecture, coupled with DivX's MPEG-4 technology, makes our solution versatile for a variety of consumer electronics and video-on-demand applications."

"We are pleased to offer consumer electronics manufacturers the ability to rapidly deploy leading edge streaming media solutions based on Philips' Nexperia™ platform," said Chris Day, senior marketing director media processing, Philips Semiconductors. "The highly flexible Nexperia platform gives increased opportunities for product differentiation, as well as simplified development and fast design cycles resulting in a shorter time to market."

"Our customers are looking for robust, high-performance solutions that enable a variety of DivX-compatible devices, from handheld multimedia devices to next-generation Home Media Centers. Our BSP™-15 processor and the DivX Certified partner program together allow us to provide quality solutions that video-centric consumer device manufactures can use today," said Rich Christopher, senior VP of sales and marketing, Equator Technologies.

The first publicly announced DivX Certified Embedded Software partner, Ingenient Technologies, is working closely with DivXNetworks to deliver DivX video technology to Texas Instruments' DSP-based products.

"We share DivXNetworks' focus on creating and delivering high performance digital video technology, and the global market acceptance and unsurpassed quality of DivX video provide a welcome addition to our growing embedded software product offerings," said Sami Levi, president and CEO, Ingenient Technologies.

DivX MPEG-4 compatible video compression technology was hailed as a "revolutionary product" by Tom's Hardware Guide and has been downloaded over 65 million times. The new DivX Certified Partner Program was created to enable the development of official DivX-enabled consumer electronics products to meet the global demand for high-quality DivX convergence devices. For more information on DivX certification process, visit www.divx.com/certified.

About DivXNetworks DivXNetworks is a leading technology company that enables the rapid proliferation of video content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks by combining the lightweight, ubiquitous access of the Internet with DVD-quality video performance. The company's approach is built upon the success of the DivX™ codec, a leading standard for MPEG-4 compatible video distribution with over 65 million users worldwide, and the DivX Open Video System™, a next-generation content delivery system that provides unsurpassed aggregation, promotion, and distribution of video content for mass markets. DivXNetworks is headquartered in San Diego, California, with a satellite office in Los Angeles. For more information about DivXNetworks, visit http://www.divxnetworks.com.

About Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The company's businesses also include sensors and controls, and educational and productivity solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at: http://www.ti.com.

About Philips Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of $ 28.8 billion (EUR 32.2 billion) in 2001. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, and one-chip TV products. Its 184,000 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors, and medical systems. Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol: PHG), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. News from Philips is located at www.newscenter.philips.com/usa.

About Equator Technologies, Inc. Equator Technologies is a leading provider of high performance, programmable, power efficient System-on-a-chip processors designed for video streaming and image processing applications across a wide range of consumer and enterprise end markets. Equator offers the BSP family of Broadband Signal Processor chips, the iMMediaTools® software development toolkit, media libraries, and reference platforms for development and deployment of video streaming and video processing systems. With more than 150 customers worldwide, Equator provides solutions to the digital media, digital video communications, video security and surveillance, digital imaging, and automotive video markets. Winner of the "2001 Fabless Semiconductor Association Best Financial Performer - Private Company" award and picked by Cahners Research as the top private company on the list of 30 best small electronics companies, Equator is a recognized leader in video processing solutions. Founded in 1996, Equator is a privately held company headquartered in Campbell, Calif., with additional offices worldwide. More information about Equator is available at www.equator.com.

About Ingenient Technologies Ingenient Technologies is emerging as a premier supplier of embedded multimedia solutions that enable the creation, delivery, management and presentation of multimedia content. Their comprehensive suites of proprietary enhanced international standards compliant algorithms, transraters / transcoders and framework products enable fast time-to-market for products addressing the consumer electronics, video security and surveillance, video server, and video infrastructure markets. Headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. More information can be found by visiting http://www.ingenient.com.