LSI Logic Delivers Industry's First Single-Chip DVD Recorder System Processor

Based Upon LSI Logic's DoMiNo(TM) Architecture, the Industry's Most Integrated Solution Provides Manufacturers of DVD Recorders the Highest Level Of System Features and Image Quality

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI - news) today introduced the first single-chip DVD recorder system processor, the DiMeNsion(TM)-8600 (DMN-8600). The DMN-8600 is the first device in LSI Logic's DiMeNsion family of consumer recordable products and is based upon the company's powerful system-on-a-chip DoMiNo(TM) architecture. The new processor supports all DVD recording and playback formats and enables feature-rich DVD recorder solutions, while significantly reducing system-level costs and design complexity for consumer electronics manufacturers. The new solution will be demonstrated this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show at LSI Logic's booth #870.

"The DiMeNsion 8600's high level of integration and compelling set of features will help bring DVD recorders to the mass market," said Shingo Kawata, associate director of the Home AV Network Business Unit of JVC Corporation. "LSI Logic's DoMiNo architecture represents a new level of performance for consumer digital entertainment solutions."

Lowering total system cost and improving performance, the DMN-8600 integrates digital audio and video encode and decode capabilities; dual high-performance 32-bit RISC processors; highest-quality display processing abilities; storage and IEEE-1394 interfaces; and a 2D graphics engine. Its 32-bit SPARC RISC CPUs have DSP co-processing engines that provide up to a combined 600 MIPS of performance. In addition, the DMN-8600 integrates a high-performance video DSP and motion-estimation engine that, in tandem with the dual-CPUs, enable simultaneous digital audio and video encode and decode functions, and provide full-system CPU capabilities. Due to its high-performance architecture, the processor also has the ability to transcode between a variety of digital audio and video formats (MPEG, DV) and transrate between different bit rates. This gives DVD recorder manufacturers the flexibility to provide a wide variety of system features for consumers.

Michelle Abraham, senior analyst of electronics market research firm Cahners In-Stat (Scottsdale, AZ) said, "The DVD recorder market is expected to approach three million units in 2003. A single-chip processor such as the DiMeNsion-8600 provides the industry an affordable solution that will allow a new wave of DVD recorders to be offered at very attractive prices in time for Christmas of 2002."

With LSI Logic's proprietary TrueScan Pro(TM) motion-compensated de-interlacing and TrueView Pro(TM) motion-compensated temporal filtering algorithms, the DMN-8600 delivers the industry's best recorded image quality and highest quality progressive scan display. Together, these capabilities enable the DMN-8600 to offer a near broadcast quality recording experience in the living room.

The DMN-8600 utilizes LSI Logic's C-Ware(TM) software architecture which allows manufacturers to take products to market quickly with commercially available development tools, while enabling software re-use across and between other LSI Logic based consumer products such as the ZiVA-5(TM) DVD system processor. Manufacturers using DMN-8600 are able to offer products ranging from entry-level DVD recorders to feature-rich products that include DV camcorder connectivity and digital video recording (DVR) time-shifting functions on the DVD drive.

Price/Availability

The DMN-8600 is provided in a single 308-pin BGA package and is priced at $30.00 in high volume. Samples are available now with production quantities available in the second quarter of 2002.

About DiMeNsion(TM) Product Family

The LSI Logic DiMeNsion family of products optimizes its DoMiNo architecture, the industry's first multi-stream, multi-format network media processor architecture, for consumer electronics products such as DVD recorders, digital video recorders (DVRs), PC peripherals, and others requiring high-performance media processing at consumer price points.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, 866-574-5741 (within U.S.), 719-533-7679 (outside U.S.), http://www.lsilogic.com .

With the June 2001 acquisition of C-Cube Microsystems, LSI Logic is a worldwide leader in digital media processing, communication processors and networked consumer products. With a focus on DVD, set-top boxes and codec-enabled products, LSI Logic's consumer products are "the heart of the networked digital home."

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