LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- 2008 International CES -- Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of systems solutions to enable connected home entertainment, today announced a joint demonstration with Oxford Semiconductor, a global leader in high performance connectivity and storage solutions, at CES showcasing a HANA (High Definition Audio Video Network Alliance) over MoCA (Multimedia Over Coax Alliance) entertainment network. This is the first demonstration leveraging a MoCA PHY in HANA enabled devices.
HANA and MoCA a Powerful Combination for the Digital Home
The demonstration, at HANA's CES booth Suites N119-N120, North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, utilizes Oxford Semiconductor's Silicon Systems for HANA Bridging combined with Entropic's MoCA-capable Ethernet to coaxial bridges to create a data path leveraging both 1394 and MoCA. At CES, the companies will demonstrate media content playback using a HANA enabled DVR and television display. A MoCA 1.1 enabled network provides up to 175 Mbps bandwidth allowing five or more HANA enabled devices to stream HD video content.
"Entropic Communications and Oxford Semiconductor's combined technology is the first demonstration of a HANA over MoCA entertainment network," said John Graham, Vice President of Marketing for Entropic Communications. "The combination highlights the benefit of MoCA in powering high-bandwidth, high definition content delivery through HANA devices creating a robust entertainment network capable of delivering five or more simultaneous HD video streams, all over existing coax."
Entropic and Oxford Driving Digital Connectivity Innovation
Entropic's c.LINK home networking products are compliant with the MoCA standard and enable the creation of a whole home entertainment network for multiple streams of HD video and other digital entertainment over the existing coax infrastructure. Oxford Semiconductor provides a complete portfolio of storage and connectivity products that enable electronic devices to exchange or back-up data and share resources.
"We are pleased to partner with Entropic to bring HANA devices into MoCA enabled homes," said Dr. Jalil Oraee, CTO & Founder at Oxford Semiconductor. "MoCA enables the quality of service in a HANA/1394 local cluster to be extended throughout the home with no new wires, offering high speed, time-shifted delivery and storage of content never before possible."
Also at CES, the two companies will be showcasing Oxford Semiconductor's OXE800DSE a dual SATA NAS controller combined with a mPCI-based Entropic EN2210 c.LINK device to create a MoCA-enabled network attached storage device. This innovative home entertainment solution will be on display in Entropic's booth #25749, South Hall 2 of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
About Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications, Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets systems solutions to enable connected home entertainment. The company's technologies significantly change the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, please visit www.entropic.com
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About Oxford Semiconductor
Oxford Semiconductor is a global leader in storage and connectivity technology and provides a broad portfolio of semiconductor "System on Chip" products enabling electronic devices to exchange or back-up data and share resources. The company's high performance connectivity solutions are an essential ingredient in a diverse range of highly differentiated end products, from external data storage and mobile phones to printers and point-of-sale equipment.
Oxford's market leading product portfolio includes:
. Direct-attached (FireWire / USB / RAID) and network-attached storage (NAS) controllers. . Serial communication bridges for PCI, miniPCI, Compact Flash and PC Cards. . USB host, peripheral and On-The-Go controllers. . Network connectivity controllers.
Founded in 1992, Oxford Semiconductor is a privately held fabless company headquartered in San Jose, California with its key design center in Abingdon, UK and sales support offices worldwide. For more information visit http://www.oxsemi.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the advantages of Entropic's and Oxford's combined technology and the benefits of MoCA. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Entropic's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the effects of competition; Entropic's dependence on a limited number of customers and ultimately service providers; Entropic's ability to introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis; the risk that the market for high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia content delivery solutions based on the MoCA standard may not develop as anticipated; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; risks related to Entropic's international operations; and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Entropic's final prospectus filed with the SEC on December 7, 2007. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Entropic is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.